The Linguistic Computing Laboratory (LCL) is part of
the Computer Science Department of the
Sapienza University of Rome. The group conducts
state-of-the-art research in the area of
Natural Language Processing.
The group aims at devising and developing algorithms and methods in the context of machine learning, pattern matching and recognition and natural language processing to solve problems related to automatic text understanding, construction, learning and population of ontologies, semantic text indexing and classification, query expansion, question answering, etc.
Research fields include:
The group aims at devising and developing algorithms and methods in the context of machine learning, pattern matching and recognition and natural language processing to solve problems related to automatic text understanding, construction, learning and population of ontologies, semantic text indexing and classification, query expansion, question answering, etc.
Research fields include:
- Word Sense Disambiguation and Induction
- Ontology Learning and Population
- Large-Scale Knowledge Acquisition
- Semantic and Statistical Machine Translation
- Semantic Information Retrieval
BabelNet and BabelNet API 1.0.1 released
As an output of the "MultiJEDI" ERC Starting Grant headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli, we are happy to announce the release of the following two resources:
As an output of the "MultiJEDI" ERC Starting Grant headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli, we are happy to announce the release of the following two resources:
- BabelNet 1.0.1: a very large multilingual semantic network covering 6 languages (English, Catalan, French, German, Italian and Spanish), and created by 1) the automatic integration of WordNet with Wikipedia and 2) the use of statistical machine translation to acquire a very large amount of multilingual concept lexicalizations.
- The BabelNet API 1.0: a Java API for programmatic access to BabelNet and high-performance, multilingual, knowledge-rich Word Sense Disambiguation with just a few lines of code.
2 Post-Doc positions open!
Two positions of postdoctoral research fellow in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli. The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (surname @ di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.
Two positions of postdoctoral research fellow in Natural Language Processing are open in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. The positions are part of a 5-year ERC Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and headed by Prof. Roberto Navigli. The successful candidates will participate in a frontier research project on multilingual lexical semantics and will work in a stimulating environment of a leading and highly-active research team including 2 faculty members, 1 postdoc and 6 Ph.D. students.
- LCL1-2012: research record in computational lexical semantics, large-scale knowledge acquisition and validation, open information extraction, or data-intensive machine learning
- LCL2-2012: research record in statistical machine translation, unsupervised acquisition of bilingual/multilingual lexicons, or cross-lingual methods for NLP
- Application deadline: open until filled
- Starting date: fall/winter 2012
- Duration: 1+1+1 years
- Salary: 30000-45000 euros per annum, depending on qualifications. Note that this type of research contract is exempt from most taxes (e.g., 40000 euros per annum corresponds to around 2600 euros net per month).
HOW TO APPLY
Please send a detailed CV and contact details for up to three references to Roberto Navigli (surname @ di.uniroma1.it). Please include the job reference (LCL1-2012 or LCL2-2012) in the subject line.
Ph.D. positions open!
Ph.D. positions are open in the fields of computational lexical semantics and machine translation for highly qualified candidates with an excellent Master's degree in computer science or computational linguistics. The successful candidate will join a young, dynamic research team (made up of 2 faculty members, 1 post-doc and 5 Ph.D. students) with solid experience and proven excellence in NLP research.
Note that the Sapienza deadline for submitting applications is July 20, 2012 (http://phd.di.uniroma1.it/apply.php), but candidates who apply later, and are successful, could start a one-year research fellowship (about 1500 euros net per month) immediately and then apply for the Ph.D. next year.
Please contact Stefano Faralli (surname at di.uniroma1.it) for informal inquiries including the LCL-2012 job reference in the subject line.
Ph.D. positions are open in the fields of computational lexical semantics and machine translation for highly qualified candidates with an excellent Master's degree in computer science or computational linguistics. The successful candidate will join a young, dynamic research team (made up of 2 faculty members, 1 post-doc and 5 Ph.D. students) with solid experience and proven excellence in NLP research.
Note that the Sapienza deadline for submitting applications is July 20, 2012 (http://phd.di.uniroma1.it/apply.php), but candidates who apply later, and are successful, could start a one-year research fellowship (about 1500 euros net per month) immediately and then apply for the Ph.D. next year.
Please contact Stefano Faralli (surname at di.uniroma1.it) for informal inquiries including the LCL-2012 job reference in the subject line.
ERC Starting Grant!
Prof. Roberto Navigli has been awarded a prestigious ERC starting grant in computer science and informatics (2011-2016). The project, called MultiJEDI, will focus on multilingual semantic processing. Many positions are open on the project.
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