LINGUIST List 23.1689: Support: Semantics, Computational Ling, Psycholing, Cog Sci: PhD, University of Trento, Italy

LINGUIST List 23.1689
Mon Apr 02 2012 Support: Semantics, Computational Ling, Psycholing, Cog Sci: PhD, University of Trento, Italy Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 02-Apr-2012 From: Roberto Zamparelli <roberto.zamparelliunitn.it> Subject: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Trento, Italy E-mail this message to a friend Department: Center for Mind/Brain Sciences Web Address: www.unitn.it/en/cimec Level: PhD Duties: Research Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics [Other] Description: PHD POSITIONS IN COMPOSITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONAL SEMANTICS Three PhD positions/studentships to study compositionality in distributional semantics are available in the Language, Interaction and Computation track of the 3-year PhD program offered by the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento (Italy)(www.unitn.it/en/cimec). The PhD program (start date: November 2012) is taught in English by an international faculty. The Language, Interaction & Computation track is organized by the CIMeC-CLIC laboratory, an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both computational and cognitive methods (clic.cimec.unitn.it). The studentships are funded by a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to the COMPOSES (COMPositional Operations in SEmantic SPACE) project (clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes), that aims at modeling composition in distributional semantics. The project is expected to have strong impact on both theoretical and computational semantics, as well as their cognitive underpinnings. * Desired Profiles * Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek brilliant students with any of the following backgrounds: - Machine learning (areas of special interest: regression, regularization methods, hierarchical regression, autoencoders, curriculum learning, scaling machine learning to large multivariate and multi-level problems, dealing with very sparse data); - Psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics or cognitive science (areas of special interest: systematic judgment elicitation methods such as Likert scales or magnitude estimation, crowdsourcing, semantic processing); - Formal and/or computational semantics (areas of special interest: Montague Grammar and its derivatives, distributional semantics) Advanced programming and mathematical skills are required of candidates from machine learning. For linguists and cognitive scientists, programming skills and knowledge of statistics are a big plus. If you think that your background is relevant to the research program outlined on the project website (clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes) and you have good programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch even if you do not fit any of the profiles above. All prospective students are expected to have an interest in working in an interdisciplinary environment. * The Research Environment * The CLIC lab (clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of Trento's Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC, www.unitn.it/en/cimec), an English-speaking, interdisciplinary center for research on brain and cognition whose staff includes neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists, computer scientists and physicists. * Application Information * The official call of the Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences will be announced shortly, and application details will be available on the page: http://www.unitn.it/en/drcimec/10140/admission-doctoral-school-cognitive-and-brain-sciences We strongly encourage a preliminary expression of interest in the project. Please contact Marco Baroni (marco.baroniunitn.it), attaching a CV in pdf or txt format, or a link to an online CV. For information about the application process, please contact the school administrator (phd.cimecunitn.it). Applications Deadline: 01-Jun-2012 Mailing Address for Applications: Attn: Roberto Zamparelli Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences Corso Bettini, 31 Rovereto 38068 Italy Web Address for Applications: http://www.unitn.it/en/drcimec/10140/admission-doctoral-school- cognitive-and-brain-sciences Contact Information: Marco Baroni marco.baroniunitn.it Phone:+39 0464 808617 Fax:+39 0464 808690 This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming year. See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2012 site! http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/ There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST! 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