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		  LANGUAGE ENGINEERING IN EDINBURGH

			A special theme in the

	    MSC IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE

				  at

		     THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH


For the 1996-97 academic year, the Centre for Cognitive Science (CCS)
is offering a new theme in Language Engineering within its MSc
programme. A number of studentships are available for UK students
(paying fees and living allowance) and EC students (paying fees only)
to undertake the MSc. This specialised theme combines theoretical
training in language and speech processing with practical language
engineering and system design techniques.  Students will take modules
offered by CCS, the Department of Linguistics, the Department of
Artificial Intelligence, and the HCRC's Language Technology Group,
which cover the following topics:

   o  Parsing and natural language understanding
   o  Speech synthesis and recognition
   o  Corpus-based and statistical language processing
   o  Logic programming and knowledge representation
   o  System design and implementation

Students participating in this theme are expected to have previous
programming experience, and some background in computational or
theoretical linguistics. For their dissertation, students will work
closely with members of the HCRC's Language Technology Group on the
research and development of practical language processing systems.
LTG have a wide experience of collaborative applied research,
especially within EC funded projects.

The deadline for application is 15 April 1996. For information and
application details contact:

Admissions                         Telephone: +44 131 650 4667
Centre for Cognitive Science       Fax: +44 131 650 6626
University of Edinburgh            E-mail: info@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, UK  EH8 9LW

See also our WWW site: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/home.html

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-- 
-------Dr. Matthew Crocker------------------ESRC Research Fellow-------
   Centre for Cognitive Science    |       CCS: +44 -131 650 4589
     University of Edinburgh       |       FAX: +44 -131 650 6626
        2 Buccleuch Place          |      Secr: +44 -131 650 4432
   Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9LW    |         mwc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
