Computation, Cognition and Language University of Cambridge

Overview

The Computation, Cognition and Language course from the University of Cambridge provides great variety and flexibility in course contents, as well as subject-specific training and diversity of intellectual interactions.

The PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language is a doctoral track for students who conduct basic and applied research in the computational study of language, communication, and cognition in humans and machines. This research is interdisciplinary in nature and draws on methodologies and insights from a range of disciplines that are now critical for the further development of language sciences, including (but not limited to) Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology and Neuroscience. Irrespective of the discipline from which the applicant is progressing into the PhD in CCL, substantial background in linguistic theory is required. A variety of PhD topics that fall within this remit are accepted. 

The current primary areas of research are:

• natural language processing
• computational and corpus linguistics
• computational models of human language acquisition and processing
• information extraction, mining, and presentation
• multilingual technology
• educational and assistive technology
• text data technology for health
• computational digital humanities
• computational approaches to the analysis of speech
• digital forensic speech analysis