CALL NO. 6/2015 FOR APPLICATIONS FOR A POST-DOC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: midday, February 26, 2015
APPLICATION FORM FOR PARTICIPATION
To the Director of the CIMeC
I, THE UNDERSIGNED,
Surname
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date of birth(2)
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agree to the processing of my personal data, in accordance with Leg. Decree no.196 of 30 th June 2003,
for the purposes of the present selection procedure.
attach a photocopy (3) of my identity card or other identity document which I will submit in person to
the examination offices (obligatory in case an interview is foreseen, and the application is sent by
post or delivered by a third party)
regarding publication of the results of the selection on the CIMeC website I, the undersigned,
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agree to my name appearing
do not agree to my name appearing
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I declare that ___________________________________________, whose identity I have confirmed,
(document ______________________ no. _______________________) has signed in my presence.
Trento, date:___________________
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I, THE UNDERSIGNED,
having read the Call for applications no. 6/2015 for the award based on qualifications of 1 postdoc research fellowship at CIMeC, in respect of:
Scientific/disciplinary area
Principal Investigator (Tutor):
Research title:
Research goals:
Duration of the fellowship:
L-LIN/01
Prof. Marco Baroni
Learning compositional distributional functions and testing compositional
distributional models on theoretically motivated tasks
The ERC-funded COMPOSES project tackles the meaning induction and
composition problem from a new perspective that brings together corpusbased distributional semantics (that is very successful at inducing the
meaning of single content words, but ignores functional elements and
compositionality) and formal semantics (that focuses on functional
elements and composition, but largely ignores lexical aspects of meaning
and lacks methods to learn the proposed structures from data). As in
distributional semantics, we represent some content words (such as
nouns) by vectors recording their corpus contexts. Implementing ideas
from formal semantics, functional elements (such as determiners) are
represented by functions mapping from expressions of one type onto
composite expressions of the same or other types. These composition
functions are induced from corpus data by statistical learning of
mappings from observed context vectors of input arguments to observed
context vectors of composite structures. We model a number of
compositional processes in this way, developing a coherent fragment of
the semantics of English in a large-scale data-driven fashion. Given the
novelty of the approach, we also propose several new evaluation
frameworks.
The collaborator will design effective methods to learn compositional
functions, evaluate them on existing benchmarks and develop testing the
distributional representations on tasks traditional for formal semantics,
including entailment and logical compatibility, both at word level and at
sentence level.
20 months (presumably from March 2015)
REQUEST
permission to apply for the above-mentioned fellowship, and to this end, aware that false
declarations are punishable by law under Article 76 of Presidential Decree no. 445 of 28th
December 2000 and that this Administration will carry out random checks on the accuracy of the
declarations made by candidates,
DECLARE
under my own responsibility and in accordance with Articles 46-47 of Presidential Decree
445/2000,
that I hold the following PhD
awarded by
date (2)
title of thesis
OR
that I have completed all requirements for the PhD in
title of thesis
and that I’ll obtain my PhD title prior to signing the contract;
that I have appropriate scientific and professional experience required to carry out the research
described in article 1 of the call;
that I have excellent experience (documented by at least one publication in a peer-reviewed journal
or conference proceedings) in semantics;
that I have advanced programming experience to carry out data analysis and modeling
independently;
that I have excellent English language skills;
that I am aware of the restrictions described in Article 7 of the Call for applications for this research
fellowship;
The following three points are to be filled out solely by those candidates who have had research assignment
contracts with Italian academic institutions since 2011:
that I have never received a research award as per Article 22, Law 240/2010;
that I have previously received research awards as per Article 22, Law 240/2010 and, in
particular, I have been the recipient of1:
 an award for the duration of _____ months at (name of institution)
____________________, beginning ____________ ending ____________ ;
 an award for the duration of _____ months at (name of institution)
____________________, beginning ____________ ending ____________ ;
 an award for the duration of _____ months at (name of institution)
____________________, beginning ____________ ending ____________ ;
that I have received a research award as per Article 2, Law 240/2010 for the purposes of
undertaking a research doctorate, and in particular:
 that
I
was
enrolled
on
a
doctoral
research
course
in
__________________________________ ____________________ from ________ to
__________ at (name of institution) __________________________________,
 that
the
legal
duration
of
the
doctoral
research
course
in
______________________________ ____________________ is __________ years,
 that I have made use of an award for ___________ months for the purposes of following
a doctoral research course.
that I am not under any similar contract for research activities at this or any other university;
that I do not enter into any of the following exclusion categories, being aware that under Article22,
Law 240/2010, the research fellowship:
 cannot be held by any permanent staff of universities, institutions and public bodies engaged
in research and experimentation, the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), nor of
institutions which award an advanced specialised scientific degree equivalent to a research
doctorate under the terms of Article 74, paragraph 4, of Presidential Decree 382/1980;
 cannot be undertaken at the same time as a course of study for a bachelor’s degree, a
master’s degree, grant-supported doctoral research or medical specialisation, in Italy or
abroad, and that public sector employees must take unpaid leave;
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Indicate the number of months for which the award was used and the name of the institution granting the award, e.g. University of
Trento; please provide details of each award, for example, if you have had two awards of 24 months each at the same institution
indicate these as two separate awards on two different lines.
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cannot be held by relatives, up to the fourth degree, of faculty members of the awarding
institution, the Rector, the Director General or a member of the University Administrative
Council;
cannot be combined with other grants of any kind, with the exception of those awarded by
national or foreign institutions for the purposes of integrating the researcher’s activities with
work experience abroad;
that I wish correspondence relating to the selection to be sent to me at the following address and
that I will give due notice of any change of address. (5)
(town and county/state)
(house number and street)
post code
Province (1)
country if other than Italy
other name (if different from applicant’s own name) to which correspondence may be addressed
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only for non-EU citizens or citizens from countries which do not have a freedom of movement agreement with the EU
that your immigration and visa (permesso di soggiorno) papers are current for (state reason
here)…………………… expiring on……………………….; such a visa is an autonomous
working permit which allows the possibility to sign freelance work contracts. Should the
current visa permit be for reasons other than autonomous work, to undertake to require its
conversion to a work permit (lavoro autonomo).
Or
(only for those who do not have a current visa permit – permesso di soggiorno)
to undertake, if winner of the selection, to require a self-employment entry visa.
To be attached to this form:
 Scientific/professional CV (signed and dated) providing evidence of possession of the skills
required to carry out the research;
 Any publications, certificates or other qualifications that may provide further evidence of the
candidate’s suitability for this research project (a list of qualifications and publications,
signed and dated, must be included with this application);
 Doctoral degree certification (or official University confirmation of having met PhD
requirements);
 Photocopy of a valid identity document (ID card or passport).
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(5) Complete only if different from residential address.
Self-certification model
I, THE UNDERSIGNED, ____________________________
Aware of the criminal punishments used in the case of false declarations, the creation or use of
false deeds, recalled in article 76 of the Presidential Decree n. 445 of 28th December 2000, as well
as the relinquishment of the benefits received on the basis of false declarations, where checks
carried out show the non-truthfulness of the content of each declaration (article 75 of Presidential
Decree n. 445 of 28th December 2000,)
DECLARE UNDER MY OWN RESPONSIBILITY
and in accordance with Articles 46-47 of Presidential Decree no. 445 of 28th December 2000 (“selfexecuted certificate and self-executed affidavit”)
(Paste Curriculum Vitae in this box – do not attach separately)
Date
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I, THE UNDERSIGNED, ____________________________________
aware that false declarations are punishable by law under Article 76 of Presidential Decree no. 445 of
28th December 2000, and that this Administration will carry out random checks on the accuracy of the
declarations made by candidates
ATTACH THE DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS LISTED BELOW AND DECLARE THAT THE
ATTACHED DOCUMENTS ARE TRUE COPIES OF THE ORIGINALS (in accordance with Article 19 Presidential Decree no. 445, 28th December 2000.
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