December 2023 - Corpora

Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, Thursday 14 December 2023
by Costas Gabrielatos 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 14 December 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm (UK time). Topics: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies, Collocation Networks Speakers: Dan Malone<https://independent.academia.edu/DanielMalone14> (Edge Hill University, UK) & Hanna Schmück<https://hannaschmueck.github.io/> (Lancaster University, UK) Title: A pack of lone wolves? Exploring the nexus between the lone-wolf terrorist, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS in the British Press Abstract Following recent events in Belgium and Israel, the lone-wolf terrorist re-emerged in media reportage, with President Joe Biden<https://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/11/tv/biden-does-not-rule-out-possibility-o…> and former GCHQ Director Sir David Omand<https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-facing-heightened-threat-from-lone-wolf-terror-…> expressing concerns over potential attacks in the USA and UK. Days later, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described the neutralised Brussels shooter as "probably a lone wolf,"<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/killing-of-two-swedes-in-brus…> thus aiming to downplay the risk of subsequent incidents. Together, these instances exemplify that by shaping a "reality" (Entman, 2004), (in)security discourses can amplify or downplay a terrorist threat, in turn reflecting and/or influencing public perception and potentially guiding policy responses. Historically, the lone wolf has been associated with different movements, ranging from the propaganda of the deed in the 19th Century to the leaderless resistance of white-supremacist groups in the 1980s and 90s. More recently, it is within the domain of Islamist terrorism, often dominated by Al-Qaeda and ISIS, where the lone wolf has become increasingly associated, especially in the British press. In this joint presentation, we discuss the analytical approaches and results from our analysis of discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist, al Qaeda, and ISIS in three diachronic sub-corpora of the Lone Wolf Corpus (Malone, 2020), a compilation of British Press articles from 2000 to 2019. In a unique methodological combination, we employed large-scale collocation networks and topical clustering to examine shifting discourses through collocational clusters, and applied a corpus-based critical discourse analysis to examine representations of the Al-Qaeda-ISIS nexus. Hanna introduces the methodology employed to generate topical clusters and discusses collocational changes and constants in emerging discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist. The resulting patterns present a discursive shift from clusters related to causative factors (e.g., a mental health subcluster), towards the internationalisation and institutionalisation of lone-wolf terrorism, and finally to response management in the form of sentencing and punitive actions (e.g., a court proceedings/prison subcluster). Reporting on his corpus-based critical discourse analysis, Daniel presents the emergent representations surrounding co-occurrences of the node AL QAEDA with ISIS. These discourses were categorised into four modes of representation of presented relationship-types: Convergence, Association, Dissociation, and Divergence. These modes contributed to surrounding (in)security discourses that at times equate, promote and/or relegate different entities in a continual reshuffling of the threat hierarchy; a process termed here enmity reimagining. References Entman, R. (2004). Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The University of Chicago Press: London. Malone, D. (2020). Developing a complex query to build a specialised corpus: Reducing the issue of polysemous query terms. Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2020. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-sci… ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Research Position in the Field of Italian Language Models For Dialogical Interaction
by Marco Guerini 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] We are looking for one researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing for the Language and Dialog Technologies (LanD) Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. The candidate will be asked to advance state-of-the-art research in the field of Italian Language Models (LMs) for dialogical interactions and information extraction, with particular emphasis on data collection and the development of neural LMs, specific for the management of dialogues in the Public Administration sector. The candidate will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with PhD students, other researchers in the LanD unit, as well as with other partners in the project. Further details: https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_Within_Piano_Nazionale_Complementare_al_PN… Application deadline: *22nd of December 2023 * -- Marco Guerini, PhD www.marcoguerini.eu

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2nd CfP: Translation in Transition
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the 7th edition of the Translation in Transition conference (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024). This series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague. In its 7th edition held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research. *Second Call for Papers* We invite original submissions that deal with any of the conference topics. To encourage a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience among the researchers of various fields of specialization, preference will be given to interdisciplinary contributions that cover two or more of the conference topics. The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 16, 2024. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the open review system (https://openreview.net/group?id=TT/2024/Conference) and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow the abstract submission instructions (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024/submission-instructions). We welcome contributions (in English) grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics: * Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies * Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora * Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation, e.g. variation driven through register/genre, expertise, mode, etc. * Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, technical translation and others * Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation and translationese * Cognitive modeling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements * Translation quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research * Translation in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training * Improving understanding of translation in the context of NLP * Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI) * Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’Important dates · Conference abstract submission due: Feb 16, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024 · Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024 · Registration open: May 6, 2024 · Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024 · Conference date: September 23-25, 2024 The conference is organized by the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany). Local organizing committee at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Khatuna Beridze, Theona Beridze, Khatuna Diasamidze, Tamta Nagervadze Program Chairs at the University of Hildesheim Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Silvana Deilen -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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Second CfP: UncertaiNLP @ EACL 2024 - The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Second Call for papers: UncertaiNLP – First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://uncertainlp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP We invite submissions to the first edition of the UncertaiNLP workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2023 * Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers: January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 [Workshop Topic and Content] Human languages are inherently ambiguous and understanding language input is subject to interpretation and complex contextual dependencies. Nevertheless, the main body of research in NLP is still based on the assumption that ambiguities and other types of underspecification can and have to be resolved. This workshop will provide a platform for research that embraces variability in human language and aims to represent and evaluate the uncertainty that arises from it, and from modeling tools themselves. Confirmed Invited Speakers: * Kristin Lennox (Exponent) * Mohit Bansal (UNC Chapel Hill) UncertaiNLP welcomes submissions to topics related (but not limited) to: * Frameworks for uncertainty representation * Theoretical work on probability and its generalizations * Symbolic representations of uncertainty * Documenting sources of uncertainty * Theoretical underpinnings of linguistic sources of variation * Data collection (e.g., to document linguistic variability, multiple perspectives, etc.) * Modeling * Explicit representation of model uncertainty (e.g., parameter and/or hypothesis uncertainty, Bayesian NNs in NLU/NLG, verbalised uncertainty, feature density, external calibration modules) * Disentangled representation of different sources of uncertainty (e.g., hierarchical models, prompting) * Reducing uncertainty due to additional context (e.g., additional context, clarification questions, retrieval/API augmented models) * Learning (or parameter estimation) * Learning from single and/or multiple references * Gradient estimation in latent variable models * Probabilistic inference * Theoretical and applied work on approximate inference (e.g., variational inference, Langevin dynamics) * Unbiased and asymptotically unbiased sampling algorithms * Decision making * Utility-aware decoders and controllable generation * Selective prediction * Active learning * Evaluation * Statistical evaluation of language models * Calibration to interpretable notions of uncertainty (e.g., calibration error, conformal prediction) * Evaluation of epistemic uncertainty [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit by December 18, 2023 original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work. All submissions must be in PDF format, submitted electronically via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP) and should follow the EACL 2024 formatting guidelines (following the ARR CfP<https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>: use the official ACL style templates, which are available here<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of UncertaiNLP to present their papers at the workshop, if in line with the topics described above. Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers will be possible and more information will be sent in the later calls. [Workshop Organizers] * Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam * Joris Baan, University of Amsterdam * Hande Celikkanat, University of Helsinki * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain/FNRS * Barbara Plank, LMU Munich * Swabha Swayamdipta, USC * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Dennis Ulmer, ITU Copenhagen [Program Committee] A list of program committee members will be available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact uncertainlp(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:uncertainlp@googlegroups.com>

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CFP SIGUL2024: The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages
by Claudia Soria 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

** *CFP: The3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024)* * * Workshop website (under construction): https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it <https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it/> * When: Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2024 (details tba) * Paper submission link: tba * Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024 (details tba) The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL2024) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in language processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL workshop will also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero and few-shot methodologies and self-supervised learning in language and speech technologies * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and speech-to-speech translation * Spoken dialogue systems * Applications of language technologies for under-resourced languages * Large language models and under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Text and speech resources and technologies for the languages of Italy Special Session on languages of Italy and language technologies Italy is known for its linguistic diversity that reflects its long and varied history. To celebrate it, SIGUL2024 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language resources and technologies for the many languages of Italy (regional, minority, or heritage languages, including those of the neighboring countries). * **Important Dates* • 26 February 2024: submission due • 18 March 2024: reviews due • 22 March 2024: notifications to authors • 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due Organizers Maite Melero, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria Contact claudia.soria[AT]ilc.cnr.it Please, write “SIGUL2024” in the subject of your e-mail. * -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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First CFP: Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
by iva＠dcl.bas.bg 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the 6th edition of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024) (http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/), to be held on 9 and 10 September 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB) is an international conference that aims at exploring novel approaches and methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), especially with a view to their application to small and less-resourced languages such as Bulgarian and the bridging of the discrepancies between big and small languages with respect to language technologies. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial submission deadline: 15 February 2024 Tutorial notification deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2) Author notification deadline: 15 May 2024 Camera-ready PDF due: 15 June 2024 Official proceedings publication date: 7 September 2024 Conference: 9 – 10 September 2024 TOPICS OF INTEREST CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to: computer-aided learning, training and education dialogue and interactive systems information retrieval, information extraction, text mining and knowledge graph derivation language grounding for computer vision and robotics language modelling language theories and cognitive modelling for NLP large language models and NLP evaluation methodologies language resources and benchmarking for large language models language resources construction and annotation machine learning for NLP machine translation, multilingualism, translation aids morphology and segmentation natural language generation, understanding, summarisation and simplification ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, opinion and argument mining speech recognition, synthesis and spoken language understanding tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing CLIB 2024 also solicits submissions presenting project reports, new data resources, system demonstrations, position papers. SPECIAL SESSION ON WORDNETS, FRAMENETS AND ONTOLOGIES The Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologies brings together researchers interested in the principles, theory, practice and applications of wordnets, ontologies, related linguistic resources and their interoperability and seeks to establish a dedicated community and to foster joint initiatives in this particular field. PAPER TYPES AND FORMAT Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work dealing with a small, focused contribution. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages. Both types of submissions allow for an unlimited number of pages of references and appendices. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Additional information and the CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section at the Conference website. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in English and should be anonymous. Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. We invite authors to submit a provisional title along with a brief abstract (approx. 150 words) by 15 March 2024 in pdf format. Abstract should be anonymous. Submission of papers and abstracts will be managed online by the EasyChair conference management system through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD In order to encourage talented young researchers, the best paper with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference will be awarded a small prize and a diploma. CALL FOR TUTORIALS CLIB 2024 invites proposals for tutorials which will be held before the Conference (on September 8). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references) using CLIB paper templates, and they should be submitted as pdf documents through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page. Tutorial proposals are not anonymous. Guidelines for the proposals for tutorials are available in the Call for Tutorials section at the Conference website. The CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section published at the Conference website. CLIB PROCEEDINGS INDEXING The Proceedings from CLIB 2016, CLIB 2018, CLIB 2020 are indexed in ISI Web of Science. As of November 2020 the Proceedings are indexed in Scopus. CLIB Proceedings published since 2020 are also included in the ACL Anthology. You can contact us via the Conference e-mail: clib2024(a)dcl.bas.bg Best regards, The CLIB2024 Organising Committee

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Postdoc Research Fellows in the field of AI/Natural Language Processing, UKP Lab Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is hiring several *** Postdoc Research Fellows in the field of AI/Natural Language Processing. *** Areas of work include Conversational AI, Multimodal fact-checking, Interactive Code Generation, NLP for mental health and privacy-aware NLP. It is also possible to propose a topic bottom-up. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2023_postdoc_u… Join our internationally recognized team at TU Darmstadt, enjoy diverse opportunities for professional development, and conduct cutting-edge research! Application deadline: January 15th, 2024. Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Permanent research positions, LLF, Paris, France
by Olivier Bonami 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (www.llf.cnrs.fr, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr), the LLF has about 80 members, including 36 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published on January 10, 2024 with an application deadline of February 9, 2024 (https://www.cnrs.fr/en/competitive-entrance-examinations-researchers-womenm…). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by January 12, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by January 16. Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique, Université Paris Cité Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur 75013 Paris Bureau 520

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PhD and Postdoc opportunities in Natural Language Processing at LMU Munich
by Barbara Plank 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

For more info: https://mainlp.github.io/jobs/ Apply by December 14th, 2023 (positions open until filled)

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[Jobs] Tenured and Tenure-Track Professorships at the Tübingen AI Center
by jessica.endress＠uni-tuebingen.de 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

The Tübingen AI Center is inviting applications for the following positions: Full Professor of Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Tenure-Track Professor of Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems The Tübingen AI Center is a research institution hosted by the University of Tübingen in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems whose core machine learning faculties work together to develop more robust, efficient and accountable learning systems. Embedded in Tübingen's rapidly growing science and technology campus, the Tübingen AI Center has close ties with the newly established ELLIS Institute Tübingen, and more generally cooperates closely with the pan-European ELLIS network as well as the Cyber Valley initiative, which connects researchers with start-ups and industry in the area. Details about the positions and how to apply can be found at https://tuebingen.ai/careers. Applications should be submitted by January 15, 2024. Inquiries about the position may be directed to the Central Office of the Tübingen AI Center (careers(a)tuebingen.ai).

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