The PhD program in Natural Language Processing in the Department of Swedish is organized in close contact with Språkbanken, http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/start, and the Centre for Language Technology, http://www.clt.gu.se/. Proposed thesis topics should preferably be such that they are relevant to the research conducted in Språkbanken and CLT's Text Technology Laboratory. Knowledge of Swedish is not required for admission to the PhD program in NLP. Contact professor Lars Borin (lars dot borin at svenska dot gu dot se) for more information.

Available thesis advisors in Språkbanken are:

• Lars Borin <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/lars>
• Dimitrios Kokkinakis <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/dimitrios>
• Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/sofie>
• Markus Forsberg <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/markus>

At present, the following PhD students are active in our PhD program:

• Malin Ahlberg <http://sprÃ¥kbanken.gu.se/swe/personal/malin>
• Ann-Marie Eklund <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/ann-marie>
• Taraka Rama <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/tarakarama>
• Judy Ribeck <http://spraakbanken.gu.se/swe/personal/judy-ribeck>

Program descriptions and requirements

Program descriptions and formal requirements for the PhD and Licentiate programs in Natural Language Processing (pdf documents in Swedish):

• PhD program (four years)
• Licentiate program (two years)