<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">Dear All,</span></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">*</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Apologies</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">for</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">cross</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">-</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;color:rgb(32,31,30)">posting</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">*</span><br></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a funded Ph.D. studentship about (<b>Computational Modelling of Language Compositionality through Human-Robot Interaction</b>) at the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">Center for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS)</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>at Plymouth University, UK. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">The closing date for applications is</span><span style="color:rgb(0,36,81);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(200,38,19);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>12 noon on 04 May 2022</b></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(59,32,77);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>(funding conditions for the international (non-home fees / non-UK-based) students are available in the link below)</b></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">.</span><br></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px"></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:poppins;font-size:16.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">This exciting project tries to investigate language compositionality (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>from the word to sentence levels</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">) through human-robot interaction with a view to making a robot able to understand human instructions. This requires<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>inferring the</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>latent syntactic structure</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>of language through perceptual information (e.g., visual and/or haptic perception) and defining its mechanism of compositional development. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">This project will set the basis for learning the meaning of words and their syntactic categories (e.g., nouns, verbs) through perception in the surroundings, and learning language grammar - through an unsupervised approach - so as to understand phrases and sentences (</span><span style="color:rgb(59,32,77);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>more details and research questions are available in the link below</b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">).</span></p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">More details<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>about the topic</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(134,17,6);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>how to apply</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">, </span><span style="color:rgb(18,30,199);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>eligibility criteria for home students / international students,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>and</b></span><span style="color:rgb(18,30,199);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b> </b></span><span style="color:rgb(134,17,6);font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"><b>funding conditions</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt"> are available at: </span><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/computational-modelling-of-language-compositionality-through-human-robot-interaction/?p143324" id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPlnkOWALinkPreview" target="_blank" style="font-size:12pt">https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/computational-modelling-of-language-compositionality-through-human-robot-interaction/?p143324</a><div style="font-size:12pt"><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmluZGFwaGQuY29tL3BoZHMvcHJvamVjdC9jb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsLW1vZGVsbGluZy1vZi1sYW5ndWFnZS1jb21wb3NpdGlvbmFsaXR5LXRocm91Z2gtaHVtYW4tcm9ib3QtaW50ZXJhY3Rpb24vP3AxNDMzMjQ." style="width:800px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px"><table id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPContainer411155" role="presentation" style="padding:12px 36px 12px 12px;width:750px;border:1px solid rgb(200,200,200);border-top-left-radius:2px;border-top-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-right-radius:2px;border-bottom-left-radius:2px"><tbody><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing:0px"><td><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPImageContainer411155" style="margin-right:12px;height:120px;overflow:hidden;width:240px"><a id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPImageAnchor411155" href="https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/computational-modelling-of-language-compositionality-through-human-robot-interaction/?p143324" target="_blank"><img id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPThumbnailImageId411155" alt="" height="120" width="240" src="https://www.findaphd.com/images/FAP-social-icon.jpg" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="display: block;"></a></div></td><td style="width:488px"><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPTitle411155" style="font-size:21px;margin-right:8px;font-family:wf_segoe-ui_light,"Segoe UI Light","Segoe WP Light","Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:12px"><a id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPUrlAnchor411155" href="https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/computational-modelling-of-language-compositionality-through-human-robot-interaction/?p143324" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">Computational Modelling of Language Compositionality through Human-Robot Interaction at University of Plymouth on FindAPhD.com</a></div><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPDescription411155" style="font-size:14px;max-height:100px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;margin-bottom:12px;margin-right:8px;overflow:hidden">PhD Project - Computational Modelling of Language Compositionality through Human-Robot Interaction at University of Plymouth, listed on FindAPhD.com</div><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPMetadata411155" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(166,166,166);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.findaphd.com" target="_blank">www.findaphd.com</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="gmail-m_-4280627464129550339LPCloseButtonContainer411155" title="Remove link preview" role="button"><br></div></div></div><span style="font-size:12pt"><div style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt">If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to conta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