PhD studentship in computational linguistics/psycholinguistics, University of Edinburgh sentproc-admin@qc.edu wrote on 11/21/2005 06:31:09 AM: >
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> PHD STUDENTSHIP IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS/PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
> School of Informatics
> University of Edinburgh
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> The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within
> the School of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre
> (HCRC) invites applications for an EPSRC-funded three-year PhD
> studentship starting by May 1, 2006. The successful applicant will
> work on a project that investigates the role of prediction in human
> parsing. The aim of the project is to use probabilistic techniques
> from computational linguistics to develop a broad-coverage, fully
> implemented model of the prediction processes that occur in human
> sentence comprehension. The model will be evaluated against
> eye-tracking corpora and data from reading experiments. It is also
> planned to investigate the crosslinguistic aspects of the model by
> extending it to languages other than English. Eye-tracking corpora
> exist for German and French, and new languages are currently being
> added.
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> The EPSRC baseline rate for maintenance is approximately GBP 12.000
> per year and the studentship also covers tuition fees at the home/EU
> rate. Applicants should have a good honors degree or equivalent in
> cognitive science, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics,
> computer science, or a related discipline. Programming skills,
> preferably in Perl, Java, C, or C++, are required. Familiarity with
> statistical modeling, corpus processing, parsing algorithms,
> psycholinguistic experimentation is an advantage.
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> For further information about please contact Dr. Frank Keller
> (keller@inf.ed.ac.uk). Application forms and details on how to apply
> are available from:
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> http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html
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> On your application, please indicate "Studentship: Prediction in Human
> Parsing".
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> Application deadline: January 31, 2006.
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> Applications received after the deadline may be considered, but this
> cannot be guaranteed.
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