| Qualifications |
Duration |
Start dates |
Application period |
PhD
(MPhil also available) |
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
February and October |
January to April |
Qualifications
PhD (MPhil also available) |
Duration
Full time: 3–4 years
Part time: 6–8 years |
Start dates
February and October |
Application period
January to April |
Making sense of human communication is at the heart of our work in natural language processing and Artificial Intelligence. Research in these areas, and in particular the success of deep learning, is leading to unprecedented improvements in applications such as text understanding, information retrieval and human language interfaces.
Our research also aims to develop a deeper understanding of how humans use language, which we investigate with our research in natural language generation, ambiguity analysis and dialogue systems. Our research applies the same techniques to understanding music, to automatically generate adaptive soundtracks for computer games.
Entry requirements
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research projects
- Natural language generation
- Information extraction from texts
- Dialogue systems
- Automatic music composition
- Natural language processing in educational applications
- Textual similarity
Potential supervisors
Fees and funding
| UK fee |
International fee |
| Full time: £4,786 per year |
Full time: £15,698 per year |
| Part time: £2,393 per year |
Part time: £7,849 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via EPSRC DTP and the STEM Faculty; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
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