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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh
invites applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2024.. ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to language, communication and cognition.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Primary research areas include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Natural language processing and computational linguistics</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Machine Translation</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Speech technology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Computational Cognitive Science , including language and speech,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> decision-making, learning and generalization</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Social Media and Computational Social Science</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> educational technology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> * Information retrieval and visualization</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Approximately 10 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering both maintenance at the research council rate of GBP 19,162 (2024/25 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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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff" id="OWA873c1db9-2887-b6f1-86ee-bdde9f77acfe" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/people/academic-senior-research-staff</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc" id="OWA2d313361-2b3d-1424-6de9-aaf5600f819b" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/study/possible-phd-topics-in-ilcc</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found at:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd" id="OWAc8abafc5-195c-1e79-a9a1-049d9ffa3266" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">http://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There are TWO DEADLINES for applications to receive full consideration:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">round 1: 24th November 2023</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">round 2: 26th January 2024</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The link to the application portal is:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/bySchool&school=8" id="OWAe29ed9ca-5474-6009-9145-a3878a4b27f2" class="OWAAutoLink" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/bySchool&school=8</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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>
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
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