September 2023 - Corpora

PR: ELDA releases air-traffic control data from ATCO2 Project
by info＠elda.org 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

[Apologies for multiple postings]/ / /Press Release - Immediate Paris, France, September 29, 2023/ *ELDA releases air-traffic control data from ATCO2 Project* ELDA is pleased to announce the release of ATCO2 Project Data.ATCO2 project collected the real-time voice communication between air-traffic controllers and pilots available either directly through publicly accessible radio frequency channels or indirectly from air-navigation service providers (ANSPs). In addition to the voice communication data, contextual information is available in a form of metadata (i.e. surveillance data). The dataset consists of two subsets: * a corpus of more than 4000 hours with untranscribed data * a corpus of 4 hours with transcribed data of air-traffic control speech collected across different airports (Sion, Bern, Zurich, etc.). Ca. 1 hour of annotation has followed a human re-checking. The datasetcan be found in the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources under the following links and references: ATCO 2 Project Data <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0484/>, *ISLRN: *589-403-577-685-7 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/589-403-577-685-7> For more information and/or questions, please write to contact(a)elda.org <mailto:contact@elda.org>. *About ATCO2 project* ATCO2 project (Automated data collection and semi-supervised processing framework for deep learning) aims at developing a unique platform allowing to collect, organize and pre-process air-traffic control (voice communication) data from air space. It has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 864702. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Clean Sky 2 JU members other than the Union. The following partners collaborated on this project: IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland), Opensky Network (Switzerland), ELDA (France), ReplayWell (Czech Republic), Romagnatech (Italy), Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), Brno University of Technology (Czech Republic). To find out more about ATCO2 project, please visit: https://www.atco2.org/ <https://www.atco2.org/> ** *About ELDA* The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT. To find out more about ELDA, please visit our web site: http://www.elda.org/ <http://www.elda.org/>

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Eighteenth century corpora
by claire.etty＠oup.com 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Hi, I'd be interested in hearing about any corpora containing eighteenth century English, beyond what's on the English Historical Book Collection (Gale Cengage’s ECCO-TCP – 2473 titles printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800 and Readex’s Evans-TCP – 5007 books published in America during the years 1639–1800.) Many thanks! Claire Etty Senior Editor (Research), Lexicography Oxford English Dictionary

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Job - Researcher-developer for Digital Text Analysis
by Tim Van de Cruys 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Researcher-developer for Digital Text Analysis KU Leuven, Belgium Deadline for applications: Monday 2 October, 2023 Within the context of the CLARIAH-VL research infrastructure project, the Centre for Computational Linguistics (CCL) seeks to hire a full-stack developer to contribute to the development of a Digital Text Analysis Dashboard and Pipeline. More information and applications: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60257605

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CfP SemEval 2024 Task 6: SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes
by Mickus, Timothee 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Welcome to SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes! Task description: SHROOM participants will need to detect grammatically sound output that contains incorrect semantic information (i.e. unsupported or inconsistent with the source input), with or without having access to the model that produced the output. Overview of the task: The modern NLG landscape is plagued by two interlinked problems: On the one hand, our current neural models have a propensity to produce inaccurate but fluent outputs; on the other hand, our metrics are most apt at describing fluency, rather than correctness. This leads neural networks to “hallucinate”, i.e., produce fluent but incorrect outputs that we currently struggle to detect automatically. For many NLG applications, the correctness of an output is, however, mission critical. For instance, producing a plausible-sounding translation that is inconsistent with the source text puts in jeopardy the usefulness of a machine translation pipeline. With our shared task, we hope to foster the growing interest in this topic in the community. With SHROOM we adopt a post hoc setting, where models have already been trained and outputs already produced: participants will be asked to perform binary classification to identify cases of fluent overgeneration hallucinations in two different tracks: a model-aware and a model-agnostic track. In the former, participants have access to the model that produced the output; in the latter, they do not. To ensure a low barrier to entry, we format the task as a binary classification problem. All systems will be rated on accuracy (i.e., the proportion of test examples correctly labeled) and calibration (i.e., the correlation between the probability assigned by a system and the proportion of annotators marking a production as hallucinatory). We provide participants with a collection of checkpoints, inputs, references and outputs of systems covering three NLG tasks: definition modeling (DM), machine translation (MT), and paraphrase generation (PG), trained with varying degrees of accuracy. The development set provides binary annotations from five different annotators and a majority vote gold label. Anyone wishing to participate in the task is welcome! Participants will have to * Submit at least once during the evaluation phase next January; * Write a system description paper; * Review other system description papers (max. 2). Trial, dev and train data are now available on the task website: https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/15726 Join the mailing group: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/semeval-2024-task-6-shroom Updates on Twitter: @shroom2024<https://twitter.com/shroom2024> Important dates: * Sample data ready: July 15th, 2023 * Validation data ready: September 11th, 2023 * Unlabeled train data ready: September 22nd, 2023 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): January 10th, 2024 * Evaluation period ends: January 31st, 2024 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 29th, 2024 * Notification to authors: April 1st, 2024 * SemEval workshop: TBA (Summer 2024, collocated with a major NLP conference) Task organizers * Elaine Zosa, University of Helsinki, Finland * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, Finland * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Vincent Segonne, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France * Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki, Finland * Alessandro Raganato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, Finland * Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Jobs: PhD positions for LLM research
by Marcel Bollmann 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

The NLP group at Linköping University, Sweden<https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/>, is currently looking for up to 3 PhD students for research on large language models. Specific research topics include: * modularisation techniques for multilingual pre-training * efficient fine-tuning and targeted adaptation to specific tasks * tokenisation and embedding alignment techniques * addressing grammatical correctness and bias in pre-training * benchmarking and evaluation PhD students will be supervised by Marco Kuhlmann<https://liu.se/en/employee/marku61> and Marcel Bollmann<https://marcel.bollmann.me/>. All PhD positions are full-term, salaried positions with attractive employee benefits and pension contributions. Linköping University (LiU) is an AI research excellence centre with strong and broad research and education in AI from a technical and interdisciplinary perspective. LiU is the coordinator of one of the four EU-funded networks of AI research excellence centres (TAILOR<https://tailor-network.eu/>) and the host of the largest basic research programme in Sweden (WASP<https://wasp-sweden.org/>). LiU also hosts the Swedish National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS<https://www.naiss.se/>), which includes an NVIDIA SuperPOD (Berzelius<https://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/berzelius/>). For detailed information about the positions and instructions on how to apply, please see https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/phd-student/ Potential candidates are welcome to contact Marco or me for additional information. The application deadline is 2023-10-19. Kind regards, Marcel -- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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CfP: HCII 2024 session on Behavioromics
by Andy Lücking 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

--- *Apologies for cross-posting* Call for papers: *Behavioromics* (see below how to contribute) HCI International 2024 Session: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication" A common theme that has emerged across different disciplines, especially in recent years, is the transition from monomodal to multimodal domains. This includes, for example, multimodal learning -- learning representations from multiple data modalities --, multimodal communication -- the study of gestures, facial expressions, head movements, and the like in addition to speech --, or multimodal logic -- that is, modal logic with more than one primitive operator. While the predominant use of "multimodal communication" (and its relatives) refers to human-human interaction, other domains can also be conceived in terms of interacting modes. The field of HCI and HRI, with its focus on natural (for humans) interfaces, has paid attention to multimodality from an early stage. It is also an important topic in conversation analysis and cognitive science, and is beginning to percolate into information science and theoretical linguistics. At the same time, due to the digital turn, work on multimodality is being expanded by data analytics using machine learning tools for modelling, detecting, analysing and simulating any form of communication. Relatedly, but independently, symbol grounding approaches have been multimodally extended, and advances in computer vision and multimodal AI are prolific. However, while these fields share a common empirical domain, there is little interaction between them. This session aims to bring these branches together - a collaborative endeavour that we call "behaviouromics". The session is open, but not restricted, to topics such as the following: - multimodal generative AI - predictive multimodal computing - dialogue generation, dialogue systems and dialog semantics - social robot interaction and adaptive behaviour - monitoring and processing in interaction - (big) multimodal data - multimodal data analytics - automatic multimodal annotation beyond written text - virtual reality and augmented reality applications - simulation-based learning in virtual environments - representation schemes for multimodal communication - verbal and non-verbal social signalling in humans and non-humans - the role of multimodality in 4E cognition - notions and theories of multimodality - multimodality in logics We want to emphasize that conceptual contributions are highly welcome! The conference session aims to provide a platform to bring together computer scientists, linguists, psychologists and researchers in related fields who are working on multimodal interaction. We are all working on almost the same topic from different angles, but there are far too few opportunities to interact. But sharing and seeing what others are doing is crucial for the methodological, empirical and theoretical challenges outlined above. The planned session will support this collaboration. The conference session will take place *virtually* in conjunction with HCI International 2024 (https://2024.hci.international/). Full papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings by Springer. *If you want to contribute, please send a message to any one of the organizers until 26 October 2023:* Alexander Mehler (mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Andy Lücking (luecking(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Alexander Henlein (henlein(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Important dates: - until 26 October 2023: send email message to one of the session organizers - 30 October 2023: upload abstract (up to 500 words) - 02 February 2024: full paper is due - 29 June--04 July 2024: HCI International conference (virtual) Session organizers: Alexander Mehler (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-mehler/) Andy Lücking (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/andy-luecking/) Alexander Henlein (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-henlein/)

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Job announcement: Postdoc opportunity in Digital humanities, Uppsala University
by Maria Skeppstedt 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, Could you please forward the job announcement below to all who might be interested? ####################################### Postdoc opportunity in Digital humanities, Uppsala University ActDisease [1] (https://www.actdisease.org) is a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Starting Grant (ERC-2021-STG 101040999) and placed at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. The project studies the history of 20th-century medicine and the role of lay involvement in science through analysis of so far largely neglected, but central actors in medical history: patient organizations. These groups first emerged in the late 19th century, and worked towards increased attention to particular illnesses, shared information on disease management, promoted treatments, and developed healthcare resources. The ActDisease project gathers an interdisciplinary research team to analyse the publications and archives of selected patient organizations from four European nations - Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom and France - using a combination of traditional and computer based historiographic methods. The project entails a large-scale digitization of patient organization periodicals and using various text mining technologies to analyze these sources. The particular features of this material and the research questions pose a number of challenges to text mining methods, ranging from its fragmented and multilingual nature to the analysis of relationships between different corpora and professional and lay spheres. We are now accepting applications for a postdoc position (two years full-time employment with the possibility of one further year extension provided sufficient funds) in Digital Humanities. Full details can be found in the announcement: Postdoc in Digital Humanities with focus on historical text mining [2] (https://mp.uu.se/en/web/info/vart-uu/lediga-jobb/-/jobb/658761) Last application date: 2023-10-18 ############## Maria Skeppstedt Research Engineer Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Uppsala Uppsala University Links: ------ [1] https://www.actdisease.org [2] https://mp.uu.se/en/web/info/vart-uu/lediga-jobb/-/jobb/658761

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Job: Associate Professor in Linguistics
by Carl Börstell 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

The University of Bergen (UiB), Norway invites applications for a permanent position as Associate Professor in Linguistics at The Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE). We are seeking a linguist with a strong computational profile (e.g., corpus linguistics, use and creation of digital language resources, quantitative analysis of linguistic data) who is able to teach programming for linguistic purposes as well as topics in general linguistics. Application deadline: November 1st, 2023 Start date: August 1st, 2024 More information about the position and application process: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/250269/associate-professor-i… Carl "Calle" Börstell Associate Professor Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE) University of Bergen (UiB) uib.no/en/lle<https://www.uib.no/en/lle>

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Call for Course and Workshop Proposals - ESSLLI 2024
by Tatjana Scheffler 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 29 July – 9 August 2024, Leuven, Belgium https://2024.esslli.eu/ (Please note that the Website is not currently online, but will soon be.) Important Dates =============== 1 December 2023: * Deadline for submitting Workshop Titles 15 December 2023: * Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals * Deadline for submitting Course Titles 12 January 2024: * Deadline for submitting Course proposals 9 February 2024: Notification sent to Workshop proposers 4 March 2024: Notification sent to Course proposers The deadline for Workshop submissions and notification differs from those for Course submissions and notification, to allow participants who need a visa to attend a workshop, sufficient time to apply for one. Introduction ============ Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures. Topics and Format ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2024 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLIorganizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses -------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses -------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from,related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ---------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops --------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines =================== Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ====================== Workshops --------------- By 1 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed workshop. By 15 December 2023, proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Courses ----------- By 15 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course. By 12 January 2024, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ================= Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2024 EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ==================== Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) (chair) Lorenz Demey (KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science) Walter Schaeken (KU Leuven Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) Hans Smessaert (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Program Committee ================= Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University) (chair) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven) (local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Carina Silberer (IMS Stuttgart) Ivan Vulic (Cambridge University) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------- Heather Burnett (CNRS) Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh University) Bob van Tiel (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ---------------------------------------- Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Louwe Kuijer (University of Liverpool) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) (vice-chair) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap) --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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ACM CIKM 2023 - REGISTER NOW (Virtual and In-person) - Birmingham, UK, October 21-25,2023
by Ingo Frommholz 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

CIKM 2023 In-person and online registration https://cikm2023.org Registration is NOW OPEN for the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) in Birmingham, UK on October 21-25, 2023. Attendance for the main event can be in-person or online. ** For in-person attendance, space is limited, so please register early to secure your spot! ** The conference will contain numerous presented papers of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings as well as world-renown keynote speakers, workshops, tutorials, and networking opportunities. CIKM has a strong tradition of talks and workshops devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, AI, NLP, and related fields. We are very happy to present the following keynote speakers: Chiraq Shah (University of Washington): Generative AI and the Future of Information Access Yulan He (KIng’s College, London): Interpretable Natural Language Understanding Steffen Staab (University of Stuttgart & University of Southampton): Knowledge Graphs for Knowing More and Knowing for Sure List of accepted papers: https://cikm2023.org/accepted-papers. List of tutorials: https://cikm2023.org/tutorials List of workshops: https://cikm2023.org/workshops In-person and online Registration: https://cikm2023.org/registration-rates Please visit https://cikm2023.org for more information. Looking forward to seeing you in Birmingham! -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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