PhD student position in argument mining, Dundee (Scotland)

The Centre for Argument Technology, University of Dundee, invites applications for a PhD student to work in the interdisciplinary area lying between computational linguistics and argumentation. The studentship aims to explore techniques in computational linguistics, text mining and deep learning to exploit theories of argument structure and classical rhetoric in order to automatically identify human reasoning in unconstrained natural language texts. Because of the team's current research with IBM, the research conducted as a part of this PhD studentship will also be able to make use of Bluemix and Watson components.

The starting date for the 42-month PhD studentship is negotiable. More information is available from the advertistement on the research group web site at http://www.arg-tech.org/index.php/phd-studentship-available-in-argument-mining/, and applicants should apply by sending a CV and covering letter to Prof. Chris Reed. Closing date for applications is 31 August 2016.