3 years PhD studentship - University of Wolverhampton - UK
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The Research Group in Computational Linguistics (http://clg.wlv.ac.uk)
of the University of Wolverhampton invites applications for a 3-year University of Wolverhampton PhD studentship in the area of Textual Entailment with Statistical Methods. This is a funded bursary which will consist of a stipend towards living expenses and remission of
fees. The PhD candidate will be expected to carry out research towards the design, implementation and evaluation of advanced approaches for textual entailment using statistical methods.
The application deadline is 30th August 2011. The starting date of the
PhD position is October 2011. Applications from existing PhD students are welcomed.
A successful applicant must have: A good honours degree or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science/ Engineering. Mathematical,
statistics or closely related areas. Strong programming skills in one or more languages including Perl C/C++ Experience in computational linguistics / natural language processing, particularly the area of textual entailment.
Acquaintance with machine learning and statistical modelling techniques.
Applications must include:
1) A curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained, course covered, publications, relevant work experience, and names of two referees that
could be contacted if necessary 2) A 1-page cover letter with statement of research interests, indicating why you are interested in this position and why you consider your experience is relevant. 3) An expression of interest form: http:
//www.wlv.ac.uk/Docs/grad_sch_exp_of_int.doc
The shortlisted applicants will be interviewed by telephone in the
weeks following the application deadline. They will then be asked to complete a research proposal.
Established by Prof Mitkov in 1998, the research group in Computational Linguistics delivers cutting-edge research in a number
of NLP areas such as anaphora resolution, automatic summarisation, question answering, multilingual text processing, multiple-choice question generation and text simplification. The results from the latest Research Assessment Exercise announced on 17 December 2008
confirm the research group in Computational Linguistics as one of the top performers in UK research. The research group was ranked joint 3rd with 2 more universities in the Unit of Assessment ?Linguistics?. According to the league tables of the Guardian, The Times and Research
Fortnight, research in Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton in one of the top 6 in the UK.
Informal enquiries and electronic applications can be sent to by email to:
Erin Stokes Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Email: erin....@wlv.ac.uk