PhD scholarships in Computational Linguistics and Machine Learning at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

[Reza E.]

We're recruiting top PhD students working at the intersection of Machine Learning and Computational Linguistics to join our group at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Example research topics include:

• syntactic and semantic parsing of text or speech, especially models which can be integrated with speech recognition or information extraction
• generalisations of topic models to novel kinds of data (e.g., financial data), or which are capable of learning sequential or hierarchical structure
  
• computational models of language acquisition, especially those that rely on non-parametric Bayesian methods
• machine learning and computational neurolinguistics, which applies computational linguistics and machine learning to predict brain responses during language comprehension
  

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate the following skills:

• strong mathematical background in multivariate calculus and linear algebra
• native or near-native proficiency in English
• good programming skills

Candidates should apply for an International Post-graduate Research Scholarship from Macquarie University; applications close on the 30th August 2013.

For more information (including recent papers) see the web site for Mark Johnson's group at Macquarie University.