[Corpora-List] phd positions at clic/cimec, university of trento

[Marco Baroni]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

PHD POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE LANGUAGE INTERACTION AND COMPUTATION
LAB, UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO

Several PhD positions for 2010/11 will be available at the Language
Interaction and Computation Lab (CLIC)

        http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/

of the University of Trento's Center for Mind / Brain Sciences
(www.cimec.unitn.it). The Center for Mind / Brain Sciences, or CIMEC,
is an interdisciplinary Center for the research in brain and cognition
including neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists,
computational neuroscientists, and physicists. CLIC consists of
researchers from the Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive
Science carrying out research in concept acquisition and information
extraction from very large multimodal corpora, entity disambiguation
and other techniques for information organization, verbal and non
verbal interaction, combining brain data and data from corpora to
study cognition, and the methods of theoretical linguistics.

We will have several PhD studentships associated with ongoing
projects, among which

- a PhD studentship in statistical models for Entity Disambiguation
   (e.g., topic models), in the ICT Doctoral School (ict.unitn.it).
   Call is open, deadline: April 20th. (Contact: Massimo Poesio)
- a PhD studentship on the extraction of semantic information from
   multimodal Web documents, sponsored by a Google Research Award, in
   the CIMEC Doctoral School (portale.unitn.it/drcimec/). Call to
   appear shortly at the site. (Contact: Marco Baroni)
- a PhD studentship to work on using EEG, MEG, and fMRI to gather
   evidence about concepts to be combined with evidence about concepts
   from corpora, as in recent work by Mitchell and his lab and in our
   own lab, also in the CIMEC Doctoral School
   (portale.unitn.it/drcimec/). (Contact: Brian Murphy or Massimo Poesio)

Additional studentships will be available at the CIMEC Doctoral School
for research on themes including

- Compositionality and vector semantics (Contact: Roberto Zamparelli)
- Computational models of visual attention and linguistic attention,
   to be studied using eye-tracking and EEG (Massimo Poesio)
- Statistical models of relation extraction, coreference resolution,
   and entity disambiguation (Massimo Poesio)
- Models and methodologies for the interface between syntax and
   semantics   (Roberto Zamparelli)
- Resource creation through games-with-a-purpose and crowdsourcing,
   and their use for NLP tasks  (Massimo Poesio)

The normal course of PhD study in Italy is three years, with
possibility of extension. Different backgrounds will be relevant for
each studentship, but a good computational background and familiarity
with modern computational linguistic techniques, machine learning, and
statistical methods are essential for the computational topics; solid
foundations in theoretical linguistics and experimental methods will
be a great advantage for all projects and in particular for work on
theoretical linguistics.

For additional information contact the person indicated above for each
theme: Marco Baroni (marco.baroni at unitn.it), Brian Murphy
(brian.murphy at unitn.it), Massimo Poesio (massimo.poesio at unitn.it) or
Roberto Zamparelli (roberto.zamparelli at unitn.it) sending a CV.

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