PhD position in the ILCC for (preferably) Spring 2016 in the area of natural language processing and machine learning

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 topic of research is the use of spectral learning for sequence-to-sequence modelling. The applications will be such as text normalisation and entity and concept linking for interesting, challenging and unique domains. The work will be done in collaboration with leading researchers at XRCE (Xerox Research Centre Europe), with a potential for going for internships there.

The desired qualifications include an undergraduate background in computer science or mathematics (with the latter including some experience with programming) and related degrees. There is a preference for candidates who have completed a master's in one of these areas.

If interested, please apply through here: http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study and please let know me that you applied at scohen@inf.ed.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 15/12/2015. The starting date is flexible, but preferably no later than March, 2016.

For more information about the application process, please 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/.