Interested in doing a PhD in the Natural language processing? The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex, is delighted to announce 15 fully funded PhD Studentships covering Home fees of (£5,360 for 2021-22) plus stipend. Stipends will match standard EPSRC rates (£15,609 for 2021-22). Studentships are for a period of 3 years and start from 25 April 2022. EU and International candidates are welcome (Please contact me for more details about options to cover the additional international fees). If you want to do a PhD with me in natural language processing, please to get in touch with me (j.yu@essex.ac.uk<mailto:j.yu@essex.ac.uk>). The application closes on the 28th of September. Here are some example PhD topics: - Coreference Aware Conversational agents - Out-of- KB Entities Representation for Entity Linking - Training Data Generating with Contextual Language Models By doing PhD with me you will also get opportunities to collaborate with researchers from our collaborators (e.g. Google, IBM and Prof. Massimo Poesio’s research group at Queen Mary University of London) All applications needs to be submitted though the link: https://www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/opportunities/computer-science-and-electronic-engineering-studentships Best, Juntao