Graduate / Motivation Letter for Phd at European Universities in Natural Language Processing [4]

I am planning on sending out applications for my PhD, and most require a letter of motivation. Can you please help me with the language/structure, since I have never done this before? Also, is this much enough? Or do I need to write more? How do I sign off on the letter?

Letter of Motivation
Applicant for PhD in Natural Language Processing

I am Rupsa Saha and I am applying for Doctorate in Natural Language Processing. I have been engaged as a Researcher at Tata Consultancy Services for the last two years.

My first experience with NLP was through my Master of Technology at CollegeName, India. Although my research was on Multimodal Brain Tumour Segmentation using Rough Sets, I also contributed to a project for the Indian Navy on translating natural language queries to structured queries.

The two years assured me that not only can I carry out individual research, I enjoy it. While I would not be so bold to consider myself a "good researcher", I am definitely a happy one.

I joined my current company as an NLP researcher immediately on finishing post-graduation, one of two students from the batch of forty-seven to go on to a research position. At present, I work on ontology expansion, supervised learning using sparse data, relationship extraction, and information mining. Most of the data sources are long and short texts from the World Wide Web, across various domains including automobile, finance, crime.

Academic research prepared me to not get frustrated with an umpteenth number of unexpected results. The industrial research experience equips me to present the details of my investigations to be understandable by all. Thanks to organisational support, I have also presented papers and interacted with people internationally at conferences.

NLP and Computational Linguistics offer a vast array of research problems. Some that pique my interest are: relation extraction (especially causal relations), text summarization across multiple sources, devising methods to bootstrap a domain-specific ontology from limited data.

Apart from my (short) research experience, I also bring considerable coding experience in Python/R/Java. Coding has been a passion right from my schooldays

My primary goal in pursuing a PhD at CollegeName is to find myself in an innovative research environment. The guidance of professors at a place like CollegeName would help me grow as a researcher and contribute to the NLP community. Given the diverse nature of the research at the LabName group and my existing skill set, I am confident I can be a productive member.