Post-doc position on Distributional Semantics

Two-year post-doc position at the Computational Linguistic Laboratory (CoLing Lab: http://colinglab.humnet.unipi.it/) of the University of Pisa (with the possibility of further extensions).Topic of the research: distributional models of sentence comprehension and dynamic semantic representations.

Applicants should hold a PhD degree in computational linguistics, computational psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive science or related field. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply.

Requirements:

• excellent linguistic background, particularly in semantics
• good programming skills
• knowledge of the most common methods for distributional semantics and word embeddings
• knowledge of machine learning methods
• knowledge of methods for statistical data modeling (e.g. mixed models)
• interest and/or experience in modelling psycholinguistic data
• interest in collaborating to design and carry out psycholinguistic experiments (priming and eyetracking)
• proficiency in spoken and written English