LINGUIST List 22.4519
Fri Nov 11 2011
Jobs: English; Semantics; Comp Ling: Post Doc, Università di Trento
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English; Semantics; Compositionality; Computational Distributional Models: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
Message 1: English; Semantics; Compositionality; Computational Distributional Models: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
Date: 11-Nov-2011
From: Marco Baroni <marco.baroniunitn.it>
Subject: English; Semantics; Compositionality; Computational Distributional Models: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
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University or Organization: Università di Trento
Department: Centro Interdipartimentale Mente e Cervello -CIMEC
Job Location: Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy
Web Address: http://www.unitn.it/cimec
Job Rank: Post Doc
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Semantics; Compositionality; Computational Distributional Models
Required Language(s): English (eng)
Description:
3 (Renewable) 2-Year Post-Doc Positions Available
The CIMeC-CLIC laboratory of the University of Trento, an interdisciplinarygroup of researchers studying language and conceptualization using bothcomputational and cognitive methods (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it) announcesthe availability of at least 3 (renewable) 2-year Post-Doc positions.
The scholarships are funded by a 5-year European Research Council StartingGrant awarded to the COMPOSES (COMPositional Operations in SEmanticSPACE) project (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes), that aims at modelingcomposition in distributional semantics. The project is expected to havestrong impact on both theoretical and computational semantics, as well astheir cognitive underpinnings.
* Desired Profiles *
Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek brilliant researcherswith any of the following backgrounds:
- Machine learning (areas of special interest: regression, regularizationmethods, hierarchical regression, autoencoders, curriculum learning, scalingmachine learning to large multivariate and multi-level problems, dealing withvery sparse data);
- Psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics or cognitive science (areas ofspecial interest: systematic judgment elicitation methods such as Likertscales 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 candidatesfrom machine learning. Linguists and cognitive scientists must possess atleast basic programming skills and a reasonable knowledge of statistics.
If you think that your background is relevant to the research program outlinedon the project website (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes) and you havegood programming and quantitative skills, please do get in touch even if youdo not fit any of the profiles above.
All researchers are expected to have an interest in working in aninterdisciplinary environment.
* The Research Environment *
The CLIC lab (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of Trento'sCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC, http://www.unitn.it/en/cimec), anEnglish-speaking, interdisciplinary center for research on brain and cognitionwhose 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 oftopics including concept acquisition, corpus-based computational semantics,combining NLP and computer vision, combining brain and corpus data tostudy cognition, formal semantics and theoretical linguistics. Modelingcomposition in distributional semantics is increasingly a focus point of CLIC,and activity in this area will grow considerably thanks to COMPOSES funds.
CLIC is part of the larger network of research labs focusing on NaturalLanguage Processing and related domains in the Trento region, that isquickly becoming one of the areas with the highest concentration ofresearchers in NLP and related fields anywhere in Europe.
The CLIC/CIMeC laboratories are located in beautiful Rovereto, a lively townin the middle of the Alps, famous for its contemporary art museum, thequality of its wine, and the range of outdoors sport and relax opportunities itoffers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovereto
* Application Information *
For further information, please send an expression of interest to theapplication email address below, attaching a CV. Positions are availableimmediately and open until filled.
Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Email Address for Applications: marco.baroniunitn.it
Web Address for Applications: http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes/
Contact Information:
Marco Baroni
Email: marco.baroniunitn.it
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