Following on from our work on the English Profile Programme, Cambridge English Language Assessment are funding an institute to undertake research on Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA).
The broad remit of the institute is to conduct research in corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, speech processing, machine learning and computer systems and platforms, relevant to the activities of the sponsor.
We offer fully-funded three year doctoral studentships and postdoctoral research associate positions to suitably qualified applicants wishing to work in any of the above areas of research on problems such as automated assessment of textual or spoken material, error detection and correction, etc. (See the Publications for examples of research undertaken prior to the foundation of the institute and here for more recent work.