RAs also welcome to apply On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 14:56, xingyi song <xingyis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SoBigData Scholarships for short-term visiting PhD students > As a part of SoBigData's Transnational Access (TNA) activities, the > Department of Computer Science at Sheffield University is keen to host PhD > students from non-UK universities who would like to visit Sheffield to > undertake a short period of research as part of a scheme to promote > international cooperation and the dissemination of knowledge. Grants are > made available to cover 1-2 month research and study visits for PhD > students at non-UK universities. During the visit students will join in one > of the following research projects: > > * • Social media part of speech tagging in multiple languages* > — Part of Speech is one of the most widely used linguistic > features to analyse social media content. The project aims to build models > to tag social media content with the universal POS tag set. > > * • Social media named entity recognition in multiple languages* > — The presentation of named entities in social media is > generally different from the presentation of named entities in news > articles. NER systems trained on news articles cannot perform well in > social media analysis. The aim of this project is to build NER models for > social media in different European languages > > * • Sentiment Analysis for Twitter posts* > — Sentiment analysis is one of the basic components used to > analyse societal debates. This project aims to build a sentiment analysis > model based on short and noisy twitter posts. > > > * What is covered (*up to 4500 euros*):* > Return flight/train tickets to Sheffield > Accommodation during the visiting period > Daily subsistence > GATE Summer School > Mentor from GATE members > > * Deadlines:* > Application before: 30 March 2019 > Notification: within 2 months after submission > > > * Eligibility Requirements:* > Candidates must: > • be enrolled in a doctoral programme offered by an educational > institution recognised by that country’s authorities > • not be enrolled as a student in a higher education institution of > the United Kingdom > • resume studies in their home country after the end of the grant > period > > * How to apply:* > Applicants should apply though SoBigData TransNationalAccess ( > http://www.sobigdata.eu/content/open-call-sobigdata-funded-transnational-access > ) > > Submit completed application form ( > http://www.sobigdata.eu/sites/default/files/SoBigData%20TNA%202018-c%20Application%20form.doc) > to ta-ad...@sobigdata.eu > > Any question related to the projects please contact: Xingyi Song ( > x.s...@sheffield.ac.uk) > >
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