LINGUIST List 23.940 Fri Feb 24 2012 Jobs: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento Editor for this issue: Christy Bird <christylinguistlist.org> The LINGUIST List strongly encourages employers to engage in non-discriminatory hiring practices. We urge employers not to discriminate on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. However, we have no means of enforcing these standards. Job seekers should pay special attention to language in ads regarding employment requirements and are encouraged to consult our international employment page at http://linguistlist.org/jobs/jobnet.html. This page has been set up so that people can report on the employment standards of various countries. To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/posttolinguist.cfm Directory         1.     Roberto Zamparelli , Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy Message 1: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy Date: 23-Feb-2012 From: Roberto Zamparelli <roberto.zamparelliunitn.it> Subject: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy E-mail this message to a friend University or Organization: Università di Trento Department: DISCOF Job Location: Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy Web Address: http://www.unitn.it Job Rank: Post Doc Specialty Areas: Semantics; Computational Semantics Description: The CIMeC-CLIC laboratory of the University of Trento, an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both computational and cognitive methods (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it), announces the availability of 1 (renewable) 2-year Post-Doc position. The scholarship is funded by a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant awarded to the COMPOSES (COMPositional Operations in SEmantic SPACE) project (http://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 Profile: - Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek a brilliant researcher with a profile in formal and/or computational semantics (areas of special interest: Montague Grammar and its derivatives, categorial grammar) - It is preferable that the candidate possess at least basic programming skills and a reasonable knowledge of statistics - The candidate will be expected to have an interest in working in an interdisciplinary environment, since the other participants in the project are computational and theoretical linguists, psycholinguists and machine learning experts The Research Environment: The CLIC lab (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of Trento's Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC, http://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. CLIC consists of researchers from the Departments of Computer Science (DISI) and Cognitive Science (DISCoF) carrying out research on a range of topics including concept acquisition, corpus-based computational semantics, combining NLP and computer vision, combining brain and corpus data to study cognition, formal semantics and theoretical linguistics. Modeling composition in distributional semantics is increasingly a focus point of CLIC, and activity in this area is growing considerably thanks to COMPOSES funds. CLIC is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on Natural Language Processing and related domains in the Trento region, that is quickly becoming one of the areas with the highest concentration of researchers in NLP and related fields anywhere in Europe. The CLIC/CIMeC laboratories are located in beautiful Rovereto, a lively town in the middle of the Alps, close to North lake Garda, famous for its contemporary art museum, the quality of its wine, and the range of outdoors sport and relax opportunities it offers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovereto Application Information: For further information, please send an expression of interest to marco.baroniunitn.it, attaching a CV. The position is available immediately and open until filled. Application Deadline: (Open until filled) Email Address for Applications: marco.baroniunitn.it Contact Information: Roberto Zamparelli Email: roberto.zamparelliunitn.it Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.