5 February: fyi -- phd funding, Trento

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PhD positions and studentships are available in the Language,
Interaction and Computation track of the PhD program offered by the
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento:

http://www.cimec.unitn.it/

The Language, Interaction & Computation track is offered by CLIC, an
interdisciplinary group of researchers studying verbal and non-verbal
communication using both computational and cognitive methods.

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

Areas of particular interest include:

* The study of the use of semantic and encyclopedic knowledge in
communication. We try to connect work of a theoretical nature in
linguistics and computer science (formal linguistics, lexical
semantics, ontological modeling) with empirical data-intensive
approaches based on statistics and text mining (lexical acquisition
from textual data and multimodal sources) as well as behavioral and
neuroscientific evidence on conceptual representation in the mind/brain.

* The study of multimodal communication, in which agents
communicate using (and keeping in mind what is expressed with) a
variety of expressive means that go from verbal expressions to
gestures as well as in the direction of a look, and that can also use
images and diagrams. Both the cognitive/linguistic aspects of this
type of communication as well as the possible technological
applications are studied in various types of interfaces.

The latest Call of the Doctoral School in Cognitive and Brain Sciences
has been announced and is available, with application details, at the
page:

http://www.cimec.unitn.it/education.php

Deadline for applications: March 14th, 2008

The PhD program is taught in English by an international faculty, For
more details, visit the page above or contact:

phd.cimec@unitn.it.

For more details on CLIC, visit http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/ or contact
marco.baroni@unitn.it



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Marco Baroni
CIMeC, University of Trento
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/marco

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