The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh (School of Informatics) has an open PhD studentship position in the area of natural language processing and machine learning.

The research topic is semantics for multilingual news data and social media, with the goal of media monitoring for large news organisations. The work will be done in the context of the EU Horizon 2020 project SUMMA.

The desired qualifications include an undergraduate background in computer science or a related degree. There is a preference for candidates who have completed a master's in similar areas. The student will be advised by Shay Cohen, with the possibility for a wide collaboration with various researchers at ILCC, and other members of the project consortium including UCL, Sheffield, the BBC, the Latvian Information Agency (LETA) and Priberam Labs.

If interested, please apply through here: http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study and please let know me that you applied at scohen [strudel] inf.ed.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 5/12/2015. The starting date is flexible, but preferably no later than February, 2016.

If you need more information, you are welcome to contact me at scohen [strudel] inf.ed.ac.uk.

About the ILCC:

The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to language, communication, and cognition. Primary research areas include Spoken Language Processing, Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Information Extraction, Retrieval and Presentation, Dialogue and Multimodal Interaction, Computational Theories of Human Cognition, and Educational and Assistive Technology.

For more information, see http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/.