July 2024 - Corpora - ELRA lists

3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Semantic Memory and its Acquisition (Inria and University of Lille, France)
by Pascal Denis 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hello, Could you please distribute the following job offer? Thanks. Best, Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-year PhD position in Computational Models of Semantic Memory and its Acquisition (Inria and University of Lille, France) We invite applications for a 3-year PhD position at the University of Lille in the context of the recently funded research project "COMANCHE" (Computational Models of Lexical Meaning and Change). The position is funded by Inria, the French national research institute in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. COMANCHE proposes to transfer and adapt neural word embeddings algorithms to model the acquisition and evolution of word meaning, by comparing them with linguistic theories on language acquisition and language evolution. At the intersection between Natural Language Processing, psycholinguistics and historical linguistics, this project intends to validate or revise some of these theories, while also developing computational models that are less data hungry and computationally intensive as they exploit new inductive biases inspired by these disciplines. The first strand of the project, on which the successful candidate will work, focuses on the development of computational models of semantic memory and its acquisition. Two main research directions will be pursued. On the one hand, we will compare the structural properties associated to different semantic spaces derived from word embedding algorithms to those found in human semantic memory as reflected in behavioral data (such as typicality norms) as well as brain imaging data. The latter data will then used as additional supervision to inject more hierarchical structure into the learned semantic spaces. One the other hand, we intend to experiment with training regimes for word embedding algorithms that are closer to those of humans when they acquire language, controlling the quantity as well as the linguistic complexity of the inputs fed to the learning algorithms through the use of longitudinal and child directed speech corpora (e.g., CHILDES, Colaje). In both cases, both English and French data will be considered. The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in computational linguistics or computer science or cognitive science and has prior experience in word embedding models. Furthermore, the candidate will provide strong programming skills, expertise in machine learning approaches and is eager to work across languages. The position is affiliated with the MAGNET team at Inria, Lille [1] as well as with the SCALAB group at University of Lille [2] in an effort to strenghten collaborations between these two groups, and ultimately foster cross-fertilizations between Natural Language Processing and Psycholinguistics. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as we shall start processing the applications as and when they are received. Applications, written in English or French, should include a brief cover letter with research interests and vision, a CV (including your contact address, work experience, publications), and contact information for at least 2 referees. Applications (and questions) should be sent to Angèle Brunellière (angele.brunelliere(a)univ-lille.fr) and Pascal Denis (pascal.denis(a)inria.fr). The starting date of the position is 1 October 2022 or soon thereafter, for a total of 3 full years. Best regards, Angèle Brunellière and Pascal Denis [1] https://team.inria.fr/magnet/ [2] https://scalab.univ-lille.fr/ -- Pascal ---- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. ---- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pascal Denis Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24 Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Call for participation: Shared task on Predicting Disagreements in WiC Annotations
by Dominik Schlechtweg 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses: Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Detection (OGWiC) Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Detection (DisWiC) The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it). The workshop will colocated with COLING 2025, where the results of the shared task will be presented. All information can be found on our website: https://comedinlp.github.io/ Everyone is cordially invited to participate. Feel free to approach us in case of any questions. Best, Dominik -- https://garrafao.github.io/ https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schlechtweg/

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Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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BCS IRSG - call for one-day event proposals
by Tony Russell-Rose 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ONE DAY EVENT PROPOSALS The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline for this round: 02-Aug-2024 * Notification: 16-Aug-2024 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposals should be in PDF and include the following: * Title of the event * Chairs and organisers * Contact information * A description of the event topic and its goals * A statement on how the event complements or relates to other IR events * Proposed venue * Desired format, including preferred dates and duration, onsite or hybrid * Outline of the program (including talks, breaks, and any social events) * Potential (or accepted) speakers * Publicity plans * Funding plans and preliminary budget Organisers of accepted events are expected to announce the event and call for speakers, solicit speakers, compose the program, and organise the event. Evaluation criteria include topic significance and timeliness, scientific quality, proposed organisation, level of interest, and synergy with other events. Accepted events will be supported up to £1,000 and are expected to have a credible financial plan and budget. We anticipate holding further funding rounds in due course. Topics should be related to the theory and practice of information retrieval and interaction, such as: * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Interdisciplinary topics, e.g IR and information science, data science, or user experience * The use (and abuse) of large language models and other AI techniques * Domain-specific or professional issues, e.g. in eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, etc. * Innovative approaches used in operational IR systems and products Proposals and enquiries should be submitted via email to the IRSG Events Organiser and Chair (tgr2uk(a)gmail.com and Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de) with "BCS One Day Event Proposal" in the email subject. ABOUT THE IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. For how to join the IRSG please see http://irsg.bcs.org, or contact the membership secretary at h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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COLING 2025 : [CFS] International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Call for System Demonstrations
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for System Demonstrations (COLING 2025) https://coling2025.org/calls/system_demonstrations/ Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submissions due September 30, 2024 Notifications November 21, 2024 Camera-ready (PDF) due December 1, 2024 Conference January 19-24, 2025 Invitation for Submission The COLING 2025 Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for system demonstrations, which can range from early prototypes to mature systems. The demonstration program is part of the main conference program and aims at showcasing working systems that address a wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from the practical implementation of NLP systems and to obtain feedback from expert users. All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at COLING 2025, with an accompanying poster. COLING 2025 will be held in Abu Dhabi from January 19th to 24th, 2025. The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s, and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The conference has developed into one of the premier Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international event for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of CL and NLP. Topics of Interest COLING 2025 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research on topics, including, but not limited to: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Document Classification and Topic Modeling Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP Machine Translation and Translation Aids Multilingualism and Language Diversity Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) Natural Language Generation Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Lexical Semantics Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization and Simplification Syntactic analysis (tagging, chunking, parsing) Vision and Robotics Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. Submitted systems may be of the following types: Natural Language Processing systems or system components Application systems using language technology components Software tools or API for computational linguistics research Software for evaluating natural language processing systems Software supporting learning or education Tools for data visualization and annotation Open-sourced large language models and their applications Development tools Please note: Commercial products and services are welcome; however, sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program. Submissions The submissions should address the following questions: What problem does the proposed system address? Why is the system important and what is its impact? What is the novel in the approach/technology on which this system is based? Who is the target audience? How does the system work? How does it compare with existing systems? How is the system licensed? There are two parts to the submission, the paper and a video. Paper The maximum submission length is 6 pages, but with extra space for an optional ethics/broader impact statement (only necessary if you think you may want to preempt reviewer questions, given the conference’s ethics policy) and unlimited pages for references. Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers must be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING 2025 templates available from the link below; the only acceptable format for submissions is PDF. Your paper does not need to be anonymous (see Reviewing Policy). Any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines and page limits will be automatically rejected. Video A short (max. 2 minutes) video demonstrating the system. This video will be used to evaluate the paper but won’t be published unless requested. A screencast with audio narration is a natural choice for demos that can be presented on a screen. Otherwise, a video of a user interacting with the system can be used. The production quality of the video is not of interest. Hence, we encourage the videos to be simply a screencast of the software that is getting demoed, with zero to minimal editing efforts. We recommend that you publish your video to YouTube or another website and include the link in your paper. If you prefer not to publicly upload a screencast, please submit the video (in MP4 format) as supplementary material when you submit your paper. How to Submit Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system: https://softconf.com/coling2025/demosCL25/ Ethics COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to the COLING 2025 demo session cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time, or for other tracks at COLING 2025 (e.g. the main session). In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. Reviewing Policy Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Relevant papers that meet formatting requirements will be assessed on the basis of their relevance to the demo track, contribution, clarity, completeness, and novelty. Demo Session Chairs Contact email: coling2025demos(a)googlegroups.com Tilman Becker, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics Mark Dras, Macquarie University Brodie Mather, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition

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AIWolfDial Shared Task 2024 @ INLG 2024 - First call for participation
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for Participation Shared Task for the 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) at the 17th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2024) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs could sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. # Schedule Shared tasks July 28th, 2024 Registration August 4th, 2024 Preliminary run (self-match game) mid August, 2024 Formal run (multi-agent game) Workshop August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2024 workshop at INLG 2024 (17th International Natural Language Generation Conference), which will be held in Tokyo from September 23th to 27th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2024 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop. # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in Japanese or English. # Registration A team should send a mail to aiwolf [at] kanolab.net (replace at by @), describing your team name, a contact e-mail address, names and affiliations of its members (please mark a contact person when a team consists of multiple members), communication language (English and/or Japanese) of your agent, ssh public key and your preferred user name to connect to our game server. Registration is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. The top-ranking teams will be awarded prizes and gifts from SpiralAI, a company developing its own LLM for colloquial multi-turn conversations. # Sponser Spiral.AI Inc, Japan # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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PhD programs online?
by Mariana Romanyshyn 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear community, Could you recommend any PhD programs in NLP, Responsible AI, or Interpretability that can be taken *online*? I have a very talented Master's student, Nazarii Drushchak <https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazarii-drushchak-bb46781a7/>, who'd like to pursue a PhD but cannot leave Ukraine due to the war. Thanks in advance! Kindest regards, Mariana

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CMC Corpora 2024, Sept. 5-6, 2024, Nice, France - early birds registrations closing soon
by Mathilde Guernut 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities* September 5-6, 2024, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France Dear all, The 11th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France in collaboration with the Consortium CORpus, Langues et Interactions (CORLI) and the laboratory Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL) of the Université Côte d'Azur... ... And registrations are available here: https://dr20.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/fr/194/inscription We encourage you to register early to secure your spot and take advantage of early bird discounts - up until June 28th! We look forward to seeing you there! Warm regards, The organizing committee: Céline POUDAT (CORLI, BCL), Marie CHANDELIER (BCL), Mathilde GUERNUT (CORLI), Christophe PARISSE (CORLI), Minerva ROJAS (BCL), Simona RUGGIA (BCL) Conference website: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/

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AIWolfDial 2024 workshop @ INLG 2024 - First call for papers
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) Collocated with INLG 2024 conference, September 23-27, 2024, Tokyo, Japan https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Workshop aims > Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest is held as a part of this AIWolfDial2024 workshop. This is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. We call for papers which include following topics but not limited to: - AI werewolf agents for natural language and/or protocols - Natural language processing and LLMs for games - Corpora, resources, analysis on conversation games - Natural language processing for human relationships - Natural language processing for logic and strategy - Imperfect information game and natural language - Deceiving and persuasion by automatic agents - Evaluation of dialog systems using games < Important dates > August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference < Submission > We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage. Submission site will open soon. < Website > https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg < Shared task > Please refer to our call for participation sent separately, which is shown in our workshop website. < Committee > Contact E-mail to aiwolf at kanolab.net (replace at by @) # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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DGfS Computational Linguistics Poster Session
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (https://dgfs.de/en/) features a poster session for presenting work in computational linguistics. We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 47th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, ranging from machine translation and information retrieval to speech and dialogue systems and cognitive modeling. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (https://dgfs.de/en/cl/general). Conference webpage: https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?sub=167 DATES - Abstract submission due: October 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 8, 2024 - Short abstract (for conference website/brochure) due: November 15, 2024 - Conference dates: March 4-7, 2025 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English. Please submit your abstract via email to: annette.hautli-janisz(a)uni-passau.de

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