dietrich klakow ltinudszzeracfcoliunisbde saarland university saarbruecken germany anticipates availability three doctoral scholarships within partnership international research education pire meaning representations natural language processing partnership research education pire established 2005 collaborative phd programme saarland university germany brown laboratory linguistic information processing headed eugene charniak johns hopkins university center language speech processing clsp headed frederick jelinek charles university jan hajic czech republic pire also affiliated existing international graduate college igk cooperation edinburgh university scholarship funded two years first instance normally extendable third year doctoral degrees may obtained computational linguistics phonetics engineering informatics saarland university official language programme english dissertations may written english german nature cooperation includes joint supervision dissertations lecturers saarbruecken us six twelve months research stay brown johns hopkins university intensive research exchange programme four participating sites including example annual twoweek forum attended phd students lecturers four centres academic staff saarbruecken william barry matthew crocker martin kay dietrich klakow valia kordoni jonas kuhn manfred pinkal hans uszkoreit wolfgang wahlster prague jan hajic coordinator brown university eugene charniak mark johnson participate academic staff johns hopkins university frederick jelinek jason eisner bob frank keith hall sanjeev khudanpur paul smolensky scholarship currently provides euro 1468 per month approximately usd 1835 additional compensation includes family allowance applicable travel funding support carrying experiments additional monthly allowance duration stay us applicants hold strong university degree equivalent german diplom magister eg masters level relevant discipline applicants 28 years age female scientists international students particularly encouraged apply applications include curriculum vitae indicating degrees obtained disciplines covered eg list courses transcript publications relevant experience sample written work eg research paper dissertation preferably english copies high school university certificates two references sent directly pire office informal cover letter specifying interests previous knowledge activities relevant research areas possible include brief outline research interests pursued within scholarship three scholarships available october 2006 application sent ordinary mail pire office claudia verburg department computational linguistics saarland university po box 15 11 50 d66041 saarbruecken germany email hvlrhzlcoliunisbde 15 august 2006 later applications may considered subject availability scholarships additional information please contact prof dr dietrich klakow ltinudszzeracfcoliunisbde pd dr valia kordoni mipxbxdcoliunisbde prof dr matthew crocker qraczsbcoliunisbde see also httpwwwcoliunisaarlanddeprojectsigk httpwwwclspjhueduresearchpire httpwwwcoliunisaarlandde thu 07 aug 2008 100309 0200 uai phd scholarships