The Open University is inviting applications for full-time PhD studentships commencing 1 October 2016; the closing date for applications is *22 April*. A number of studentships will be available for exceptional UK, EU, and overseas applicants for full-time 3-year research projects. The NLP group at the Open University would be interested in hearing from candidates wishing to pursue research in any of the following areas: – computational semantics and pragmatics (including dialogue modelling and ambiguity), – natural language generation, – information extraction, – NLP applied to educational technology, – NLP applied…