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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> University of
Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"></span></div>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">studentships starting in October 2023. ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research
on computational approaches to</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">Primary research areas include:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> * Natural language processing and computational linguistics, including language development/acquisition<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted1"> * Computational Cognitive Science, including language and speech, decision-making, learning and generalization</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> * Machine Translation</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> * Speech technology</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> * Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0"> * Information retrieval and visualization</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">Approximately 10 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering both maintenance at the
research council rate of GBP 17,668 (2022/23 rates) per year and tuition fees. Awards increase every year, typically with inflation. Studentships are available for UK, EU, and non-EU nationals. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">Applicants should have a strong undergraduate degree or equivalent in computer science, cognitive science,
AI, or a related discipline.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a list of indicative PhD topics, please
consult:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found at:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">There are TWO DEADLINES for applications to receive full consideration:</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">round 1: 25th November 2022</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">round 2: 27th January 2023</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">We strongly recommend that non-UK applicants submit their applications in round 1, to maximise their chances
of funding. Please direct inquiries to the PhD admissions team at ilcc-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000" class="ContentPasted0">Please note that the 3-year ILCC PhD program is distinct from the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in
Natural Language Processing, which offers a 4-year PhD with integrated study: </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">http://nlp-cdt.ac.uk/</span></a></p>
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