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Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) -
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/
Stipend: £14,553 per year net plus fee bursary, Ref: 9668
The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a leading research centre associated with the Open University. Research in KMi focuses on web & data science, natural language processing, information retrieval, digital
libraries, machine learning and their applications to solve real-world problems. One of the application areas of a particular interest is scholarly communication & Open Science.
We are currently offering fully-funded PhD studentships commencing in October 2017. Applications are invited from UK, EU and international students for full-time, 3-year study.
Deadlines for applications (with a fully developed research proposal): 10th April, 2017
Available topics:
- Large-scale information extraction from unstructured textual resources -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76758&LID=3843
- Discovering facts to support or refute claims -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76757&LID=3843
- Identifying and predicting research & innovation by mining text -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=76759&LID=3843
- Reproducibility of text and data mining workflows -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84691&LID=3843
- Large-scale real-time aggregation and synchronization of web & knowledge resources -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84692&LID=3843
- Towards Effective Open Science Workflows -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84744&LID=3843
- Investigating the impact of Open Science practices on scientific research -
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=84745&LID=3843