[Corpora-List] post-doc position in semantics, university of trento

[Marco Baroni]

1 (RENEWABLE) 2-YEAR POST-DOC POSITION AVAILABLE

The CIMeC-CLIC laboratory of the University of Trento, an
interdisciplinary group of researchers studying language and
conceptualization using both computational and cognitive methods
(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 (clic.cimec.unitn.it/composes), that aims at
modeling composition in corpus-based distributional semantics. The
project is expected to have strong impact on both theoretical and
computational semantics, as well as their cognitive underpinnings.

* Desired Profile *

We seek a brilliant researcher with a profile in formal semantics
(areas of special interest: Montague Grammar and its derivatives,
categorial grammar) and an interest in computational semantics.

The candidate should possess at least basic programming skills and a
reasonable knowledge of statistics.

The candidate should be interested 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 (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.

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 and close to Lake Garda that is
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.baroni at unitn.it, attaching a CV. The position is available
immediately and open until filled.





-- 
Marco Baroni
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
University of Trento
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/marco


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