The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD position in Explainable Natural Language Understanding with a start date of 1 September 2024. The application deadline is 1 February 2024.
Applications for the position can be submitted via UCPH's job portal<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…>.
The Natural Language Processing Section<https://di.ku.dk/english/research/nlp/> provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. The successful candidate will join Isabelle Augenstein’s Natural Language Understanding research group<http://www.copenlu.com/>. The Natural Language Processing research environment at the University of Copenhagen is internationally leading, as e.g. evidenced by it being ranked 2nd in Europe according to CSRankings.
The position is offered in the context of an ERC Starting Grant held by Isabelle Augenstein on ‘Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking (ExplainYourself)’. ERC Starting Grant is a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council to support the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.
The project team will consist of the principle investigator, three PhD students and two postdocs, collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. The role of the PhD student to be recruited in this call will be to research methods for generating faithful free-text explanations of NLU models in collaboration with the larger project team.
More information about the project can also be found here<http://www.copenlu.com/talk/2023_11_erc/>.
Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk?subject=PhD%20position%20on%20Explainable%20Natural%20Language%20Understanding>.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
Dear all,
We are looking for a Research Assistant/Associate to work on the project FEVER-IT: Fact Extraction and VERification with Images and Text funded by the Alan Turing Institute and DSO labs, Singapore. The successful candidate will be based in the Natural Language and Information Processing group (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/nl/) at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. The project will focus on constructing a dataset and developing approaches enabling the verification of claims which require both text and images as evidence. Particular focus will be paid to accompanying the verdicts with suitable justifications.
Candidates will have completed a Ph.D. (or be close to completing it) in a relevant field such as NLP, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning and be able to demonstrate a strong track record of independent research and high-quality publications. Essential skills include excellent programming (Python), NLP techniques (multimodal NLP in particular), Machine Learning, and proven communication skills.
Candidates must provide the names and contact details of two referees who are familiar with their work in the relevant field whom we can contact for a reference before the interviews, which are expected to take place in January 2024. We are looking to start the project in February 2024, or as soon as possible after that.
Enquiries concerning this position should be directed to Prof. Andreas Vlachos (av308(a)cam.ac.uk), and applicants are encouraged to contact him regarding the position.
Apply using this link:
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44672/
Thanks,
Andreas
*** Apologies for Cross-Posting ***
The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024)
Co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2024. (Hybrid
Mode).
We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be part of
the ArabicNLP 2024 conference. <https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/>
The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation,
data/resource collection and creation, task description, pilot run details
(if available), a tentative timeline that matches the submission dates
below, and task organizers (name, email, affiliation). Proposals in PDF
format can be up to 4 pages.
Shared Task Proposal Submission URL: https://shorturl.at/eCJOS
Selection Process
The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and selected
based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected
interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are,
the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task.
Task Organization
Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task
organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely
manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the
task, create a mailing list, and maintain communication and support to
participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website,
manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage
participants submissions of system description papers, and review and
maintain the quality of submitted system description papers.
Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals
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January 23, 2024: Submission of shared tasks proposals due date
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February 6, 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared tasks
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Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls
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April 29, 2024: Shared task papers due date
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June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance
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June 24, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
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August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h
<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on
Earth”).
For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chair:
arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org
The ArabicNLP 2024 Organizing Committee
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Salam Khalifa
** Apologies for cross-posting **
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD candidature in at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), The Netherlands, on the use of Formal Methods to enhance the efficiency, transparency and the understanding of Transformer-based language models.
While large language models (LLMs) have proven successful in many areas of Natural Language Processing, they suffer from high data and resource usage, and display limited generalization capacity in tasks that humans excel at. In this PhD project you will have the opportunity to investigate how formal methods can help in developing more efficient and more transparent models for Natural Language Understanding. Specifically, you will investigate the use of implicit or explicit structural bias in Transformer-based language models to reduce training data and model parameters; additionally, you will look at novel techniques for evaluating models for their generalization capabilities on Natural Language Understanding tasks such as Natural Language Inference, possibly in a multilingual and multimodal setting.
The specific project content is to be decided between the applicants’ interest and the expertise of the supervisor, dr. Gijs Wijnholds.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Using logical methods to define task-relevant constraints on LLM finetuning;
- Incorporating structured representations in regularized training of smaller language models;
- Assessing the generalization capacity of Transformer-based models in the context of formal language theory, model probing, Natural Language Inference;
- Evaluation of Natural Language Understanding models in the presence of ambiguity and/or annotator disagreement;
- Understanding multilingual Natural Language Inference in Vision-Language Models;
For the official vacancy text, please see https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2023/qw4/23-81914335phd-cand…
The application deadline is January 13, 2024. The ideal starting date is in March 2024, but can be negotiated depending on circumstances.
For further information feel free to reach out to dr. Gijs Wijnholds (g.j.wijnholds(a)liacs.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:g.j.wijnholds@liacs.leidenuniv.nl>).
dr. Gijs Wijnholds
Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing
Text Mining and Retrieval Group<https://tmr.liacs.nl/>
Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
https://gijswijnholds.github.io
Hi everyone! Sharing the call for ICWSM-2024’s Tutorials Track! This is a
great venue for tutorials at the intersection of NLP, Computational Social
Science, Social Media Analysis, and Social Computing topics.
*Tutorial Submission Deadline*: January 26, 2024
*Tutorial Acceptance Notification*: February 9, 2024
*ICWSM-2024 Tutorial Day*: June 3, 2024
*Submit to*: tutorials(a)icwsm.org
ICWSM-2024 invites proposals for Tutorials Day at the 18th International
AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). ICWSM-2024 is seeking
proposals for tutorials on topics related to the computational analysis and
understanding of social phenomena in the following formats:
- *Lecture-style*: Traditional tutorials to teach concepts,
methodologies, tools, and software packages. Tutorials on novel and fast
growing directions and significant applications are highly encouraged. The
conference is paying particular attention to themes around new perspectives
in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing new
forms of social media. Lecture-style tutorials on these themes are highly
encouraged.
- *Hands-on*: Interactive, in-depth, hands-on training on cutting edge
systems and tools (with a proven track record in the community), targeted
at novice as well as moderately skilled users, with a focus on providing an
engaging experience. The pace of the tutorial should be set such that
beginners can follow along comfortably.
- *Translation*: Tutorials that aim to translate concepts between
disciplines. For example, such a tutorial could introduce social science
concepts to computer scientists, or computational concepts to social
scientists. Thus, these tutorials should be geared towards a beginner
audience.
- *Case study*: Focused tutorials that emphasize real world applications
of ICWSM work. These tutorials should walk the audience through how
research insights and tools were applied in practice. We welcome
submissions from practitioners in industry, government, local communities,
and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in addition to academics.
- *Free-style*: We also welcome proposals for creative and
unconventional training sessions, such as hackathons,
competitions/challenges, etc., as long as participants can learn practical
skills and participate in an active way.
We welcome tutorials of various lengths (1, 2, 4, or up to 8 hours). We are
looking for contributions from experts in both the social and computational
sciences, in industry, academia, and beyond. For a list of tutorials from
previous years, we encourage you to visit the tutorials page for 2018
<https://www.icwsm.org/2018/program/tutorial/>, 2019
<http://www.icwsm.org/2019/program/tutorial/>, 2020
<https://www.icwsm.org/2020/index.html#tutorials_schedule>, 2021
<https://www.icwsm.org/2021/#tutorials_schedule>, 2022
<https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html/#tutorials-schedule>, and 2023
<https://icwsm.org/2023/index.html/#tutorials-schedule>.
We especially encourage applications from first-time proposers and scholars
with research communities beyond ICWSM. We also welcome tutorials on
obtaining data from understudied platforms, the use of large language
models (LLMs) for and their impact on computational social science and
social computing, mixed methods approaches, and other topics of
cutting-edge and enduring interest.
*Tutorial Proposal Content and Format*
Proposals for tutorials should be no more than three (3) pages in length.
Proposal submissions should include the following information:
- *Title*. A concise title.
- *Abstract*. A short description (200 words) of the main objective of
the tutorial, to be published on the main ICWSM website.
- *Type*. The type of tutorial you are proposing: lecture-style,
hands-on, translation, case study, or free-style.
- *Names, affiliations, emails, and personal websites of the tutorial
organizers*. A main contact author should be specified. A typical
proposal should include no more than three presenters (more people can be
involved in the organization).
- *Duration*. A short timeline description of how you plan to break down
the material over the proposed duration (1, 2, 4, or 8 hours). Please
mention here the proposed duration, but keep in mind that the Tutorial
Chairs might conditionally accept a proposal and suggest a different
duration to best fit the organization of the whole event.
- *Tutorial schedule and activities*. A description of the proposed
tutorial format, a schedule of the proposed activities (e.g.,
presentations, interactive sessions) along with a *detailed* description
for each of them.
- *Target audience, prerequisites and outcomes*. A description of the
target audience, the prerequisite skill set for the attendee (if any) as
well as a brief list of goals for the tutors to accomplish by the end of
the tutorial.
- *Materials*. The organizers of accepted tutorials will be required to
set up a web page containing all the information for the tutorial attendees
before the tutorial day (roughly 2 weeks before the tutorial day). The
proposal should contain the list of materials that will be made available
on the website.
- *Past precedent (when available)*. A list of other tutorials held
previously at related conferences, if any, together with a brief statement
on how the proposed tutorial relates to previous events. If the authors of
the proposal have organized other tutorials in the past, pointers to the
relevant material (e.g., slides, videos, web pages, code) should be
provided.
- *Additional info for hands-on tutorials*:
1. Operating system and required installed tools on attendees’ devices.
2. List of software licenses required for the tools.
3. Setup instructions for attendees. (The setup should not take more
than 1 hour to complete.)
If you have questions on any of the submission requirements or for
pre-submission feedback/questions, please reach out to the tutorial chairs
(Joshua Uyheng, Indira Sen, and Carlos Toxtli) at the address
tutorials(a)icwsm.org.
*Joshua Uyheng, Indira Sen, and Carlos Toxtli*
(ICWSM-2024 Tutorial Chairs | tutorials(a)icwsm.org)
*** Second Call for Tutorial Proposals ***
36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'24)
June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 28th February, 2024 AoE ***)
CAiSE'24 invites proposals for tutorials on advanced topics in the field of Information Systems
Engineering. Tutorials should aim at offering new insights, knowledge, and skills to
professionals, educators, researchers, and students seeking to gain a better understanding
either about methods of broad interest in the field, or emergent paradigms that are ripe for
practical adoption or that require further research to reach maturity.
Proposals emphasizing the special theme of the CAISE'24 conference “Information Systems in
the Age of Artificial Intelligence” are encouraged, but proposals on other new or long-standing
topics in information systems engineering are also welcome.
Tutorials should be focused on principles, concepts, and methods. Commercial or
sales-oriented presentations are not allowed and will not be accepted.
Tutorials are intended to provide a pedagogic introduction to or overview of a topic of
relevance. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there may be a heterogeneous
audience, including novice graduate students, experienced practitioners, and specialized
researchers. Tutorial speakers should be prepared to cope with this diversity in the audience.
Tutorials will be 90 minutes long and organized in parallel with the technical sessions of the
main conference and participants of the conference will have free access to all of them.
Potential proposers are free to contact the tutorial chairs via e-mail to validate their idea prior
to the submission.
SELECTION CRITERIA
The tutorial chairs will review each proposal and select a subset of them based on the
following criteria:
1. relevance to the field of IS engineering;
2. anticipated appeal to the conference audience;
3. timeliness and importance for the conference audience;
4. past experience and qualifications of the instructor(s).
The tutorial chairs will also consider the complementarity of the proposal w.r.t. the conference
program and other tutorial proposals.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Tutorial proposals should be submitted to Easy Chair using the conference submission site
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) and then selecting the “CAiSE 2024
Tutorials” track.
The proposal (length up to 1500 words) should cover the following points:
• Title
• Presenters and affiliation
• Goal: The overall goal of the tutorial.
• Scope: Intended audience, level (basic or advanced), and prerequisites.
• Topic relevance and novelty: Specifically indicate the relevance to the scope of CAiSE,
the relevance to practice, the novel aspects that would make this tutorial beneficiary and
appealing to CAiSE participants.
• Structure of contents: Here you should provide a structured overview of your planned
tutorial, organized into numbered sections and subsections. For each subsection, you
should sketch its contents in a few sentences or bullet points.
• References: Provide references to papers, books, etc. that your tutorial builds on. Please
specify previous venues at which similar tutorials have been presented by you and
indicate the difference between the proposed tutorial and previous ones. CAiSE usually
does not accept tutorials that have been presented in other venues.
• Sample Slides: Include at least 5 sample slides of the presentation you plan to give if
your tutorial is accepted. Select slides that are typical of your presentation style. These
slides have to be submitted in a separate PDF file.
Services provided to tutorialists
• A 2-page tutorial abstract will be published in the CAiSE LNCS proceedings
• Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure (registration, badges,
refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.).
• Advertisement of the tutorial on CAISE 2024 homepage and mailings.
• The conference fee will be waived for tutorial presenters (one fee per tutorial).
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission of Tutorial Proposals: 28th February, 2024 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: 15th March, 2024
• Camera-ready Abstracts: 5th April, 2024
• Tutorial Presenters Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024
TUTORIAL CHAIRS
• Adela del Rio Ortega, University of Seville, Spain (adeladelrio(a)us.es)
• Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, The Netherlands (t.princesales(a)utwente.nl)
Other Committee Members
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/
1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and
Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024)
26 or 27 May 2024 (tbc)
Hersonissos, Crete, Greece
(co-located with ESWC 2024)
https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/
Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text
formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological
approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new
knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very
complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems
to track research and assist the scientific community with applications
such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The
1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research
Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the
processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language
and RKGs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2024 is a full-day
workshop co-located with ESWC 2024 <https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/> to
be held in Crete, Greece, in May 2024. The workshop will consist of two
keynote speakers and two shared tasks, as well as presentations and posters
of accepted papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of
Structured Scientific Knowledge Representation
- Information Extraction for RKGs/SKGs
- Question Answering over RKGs/SKGs
- Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing
- Natural Scientific Language Processing (monolingual, cross-lingual,
multilingual)
- Language Resources and Language Technologies for Natural Scientific
Language Processing
- Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications
- Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections,
individual documents, parts of documents)
- Summarisation of Scholarly Articles
- Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines
- Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information
- Metadata and Cataloging
- Bibliometrics and Scientometrics
- Domain-specific Adaptation of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
methods for NSLP purposes
- Micropublications and Nanopublications
Important dates
- Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2024
- Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 18, 2024
Submissions
The NSLP workshop invites submissions of regular long papers (up to 15
pages, Springer LNCS style), position papers, and short papers (up to 8
pages, Springer LNCS style) presenting negative results, in-progress
projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior
researchers and students from diverse backgrounds.
We’ll attempt to publish the proceedings of the workshop in an Open Access
book volume.
Shared tasks
The workshop will offer two shared tasks:
- FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications
- SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications
The NSLP 2024 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/> provides more
information on the shared tasks.
Confirmed keynote speakers
- Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece
- Francesco Osborne, Open University, UK
Organisers
- Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany
- Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
- Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany
- Frank Krüger, Wismar University, Germany
Contact
- Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de>
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[image: DFKI] <https://www.dfki.de/>
*Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>*
Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI
Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany
georg.rehm(a)dfki.de
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern
Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan
Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
Would you like to organise a workshop at ECAI-2024? The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in the beautiful city of Santiago de Compostela during 19-24 October 2024, with workshops taking place during the first two days. Proposals from all subfields of AI and organisers of all levels of seniority are welcome.
The deadline is fast approaching: Monday, 15 January 2024. Full details here:
https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/workshops
Check the website for further opportunities to participate: submitting a tutorial proposal, submitting a paper to either the main conference or PAIS, submitting a demo paper, or taking part in the doctoral consortium.
--
Luis Magdalena
Publicity Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)
*The 8th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon*
https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024
*Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024*
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ <https://www.aacl2022.org/home>
Turin, Italy, 20-25 May 2024
* Important Dates*
Submission deadline: February 23, 2024
Date of notification: March 20, 2024
Camera ready deadline: March 29, 2024
CogALex workshop: May 20, 2024
*Meeting Description*
The way we look at the lexicon has changed dramatically over the last few
decades. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the
lexicon has now moved to the center stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task
in NLP that can be conducted without it. Also, many new proposals have
emerged during the last few years. Living in a fast-moving world, it is
hard for anyone to stay on top of the wave. Hence the reason for organizing
events like this.
The goal of this workshop is to provide builders and users of lexical
resources (researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers)
a forum to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction,
organization, and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines
(NLP, IR, data mining).
Like in the past, we invite researchers to address unsolved problems
concerning the lexicon, by considering this time however also Large
Language Models (LLMs). More precisely, we would like to explore their
potential for building and using lexical resources as well as their ability
to shed new light on the cognitive aspects of the lexicon.
We solicit contributions including, but not limited to, the topics listed
below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of
view:
- traditional-, computational- or corpus linguistics,
- neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, word
associations),
- mathematics (embedding-based approaches, graph theory, small-world
problems), etc.
*Submissions*
Possible submission topics are:
- The potential of Large Language Models for the creation and use of
lexical resources;
- Organization, i.e., structure of the lexicon;
- The meaning of words and how to reveal it;
- Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user;
- Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes;
- Creation of new types of dictionaries;
- Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues
Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages.
Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for
references. To create your document, please follow the guidelines defined
by COLING using their style sheets (
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/).
The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our
program committee. The peer review is double blinded.
Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the
reviewers’ comments. Notice that at least one of the authors of an accepted
paper must register for the main conference and present the paper.
*Submission Page*
https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cogalex2024/
*Dual Submission Policy*
Papers may not be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be
concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication.
*Invited Speaker*
Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University, Belgium)
https://tshwanedje.com/members/gmds/cv.html
*Workshop organizers*
- Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
- Emmanuele Chersoni (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
- Yu-Yin Hsu (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
- Simon de Deyne (University of Melbourne / School of Psychological
Sciences, University of Adelaide)