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Subject: 23.940, Jobs: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento

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Date: 23-Feb-2012
From: Roberto Zamparelli [roberto.zamparelli at unitn.it]
Subject: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy


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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:00:26
From: Roberto Zamparelli [roberto.zamparelli at unitn.it]
Subject: Computational Semantics: Post Doc, Università di Trento, Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy

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University or Organization: Università di Trento 
Department: DISCOF
Job Location: Rovereto, TN, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy 
Web Address: http://www.unitn.it
Job Rank: Post Doc  

Specialty Areas: Semantics; Computational Semantics


Description:

The CIMeC-CLIC laboratory of the University of Trento, an interdisciplinary 
group of researchers studying language and conceptualization using both 
computational and cognitive methods (http://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 (http://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 Profile:
-  Given the interdisciplinary nature of the project, we seek a brilliant 
researcher with a profile in formal and/or computational semantics (areas of 
special interest: Montague Grammar and its derivatives, categorial 
grammar)
-  It is preferable that the candidate possess at least basic programming 
skills and a reasonable knowledge of statistics
-  The candidate will be expected to have an interest 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 (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it) is a unit of the University of Trento's 
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC, http://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, close to North lake Garda, 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.


Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: marco.baroni at unitn.it 
Contact Information:
	Roberto Zamparelli 
	Email: roberto.zamparelli at unitn.it 




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