26.2439, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics: Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

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Subject: 26.2439, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics: Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

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Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 16:58:02
From: Roberta Pinna [syntheticlearner at gmail.com]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics: Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

 
University or Organization: EHESS 
Department: Department of Cognitive Studies - Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques
Job Location: Paris, France 
Web Address: http://www.lscp.net/index.php?lang=en
Job Title: Postdoctoral position at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Job Rank: Post Doc

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics 


Description:

The Cognitive Science Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure
(http://www.cognition.ens.fr/) offers a 2­-year postdoctoral position, within
a multidisciplinary project at the intersection of machine learning, formal
linguistics, and psycholinguistics​.

The goal of the project is to bring together insights from formal semantics,
theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics (distributional and
statistical approaches) in order to derive cognitively and developmentally
plausible models of lexical meaning. 

More specifically, the postdoc’s task will be to develop a battery of formally
grounded tests to evaluate computational model of the acquisition of semantic
representations (see here for a more detailed description:
http://tinyurl.com/nyuh56s).

The applicant is expected to build and maintain a high quality research
program and to contribute to a growing international collaborative community
in the area intersecting engineering and cognitive science. 

Applicants will ideally combine:

­- a solid background in machine learning or computational linguistics
­- considerable familiarity with formal and theoretical linguistics, and a
general interest for issues in cognitive science,­ 
- a documented interest for interdisciplinary and team-based research,­ 
- research creativity, independence, and productivity.

The salary is set at a competitive European level (between 2400 and 2700
€/month depending on prior experience). We will also provide generous travel
funds. There is no associated university teaching load, although researchers
will be able to participate in the research culture of the Institute through
seminars, supervision of students and other activities.

The applicant's PhD should have been defended and filed by the starting date.
The position will preferably start in September 2015, but the dates are
flexible. Women are encouraged to apply.

The postdoc will be jointly affiliated with the Synthetic Language Learner
Project (syntheticlearner.net) at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et
Psycholinguistique (www.lscp.net), and with the LINGUAE group
(sites.google.com/site/linguaeparis) at Institut Jean Nicod
(www.institutnicod.org/). 

Both groups belong to the Cognitive Science Department of Ecole Normale
Supérieure, which offers an international and vibrant research setting, at the
heart of the Quartier latin in Paris.

The institute has been ranked as one of the top research centers in France
across all disciplines, and is one of the leading interdisciplinary centers in
Cognitive Science in Europe. It contains 70 researchers structured in
interacting teams covering a broad range of topics, ranging from philosophy of
mind to animal electrophysiology, with a strong core in cognitive psychology
and language.

Candidates should send a brief statement of research interests (up to 2
pages), a CV, a selection of published or unpublished papers or dissertation
chapters (up to 3) in a single email, and arrange to have up to 3 letters of
reference sent (directly by their authors) by June 22, 2015. 

All communication and materials should be addressed to
syntheticlearner at gmail.com.

Contact person: Roberta Pinna [syntheticlearner at gmail.com]
Selection Committee: Benjamin Spector (CNRS, Paris), Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS,
Paris)
External Advisory Board: Dan Jurafsky (Stanford), Marco Baroni (U. Trento)



Application Deadline: 22-Jun-2015 
	  
Email Address for Applications: syntheticlearner at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Roberta Pinna 
	Email: syntheticlearner at gmail.com 


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