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

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

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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:20:04
From: Roberto Zamparelli [roberto.zamparelli at unitn.it]
Subject: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Trento, Italy

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 Institution/Organization: University of Trento 
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.baroni at unitn.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.cimec at unitn.it). 

Application 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.baroni at unitn.it 
	Phone:+39 0464 808617 
	Fax:+39 0464 808690  

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