PhD Research Studentship, Natural Language Processing, University of Sheffield, UK

[Genevieve M Gorrell <g....@sheffield.ac.uk>]

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship on computing
the veracity of social media content.

Application closing date is* 31 May 2013. *

The aim of this studentship is to design natural language processing
methods to compute the veracity of social media content and deal with the
specifics of medical language. The goal is to model, identify, and verify
healthcare-related misinformation and disinformation, as they spread across
online media (e.g. patient forums) and social networks. The studentship is
hosted at the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Sheffield, UK.

For more information, see:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AGL052/phd-research-studentship/