May 2025 - Corpora - ELRA lists

CIRCE Online Seminar | 26/05/2025 | Dr. Giuliana Regnoli | "Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination"
by Claudia Soria 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/en>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC <https://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/>. *Dr. Giuliana Regnoli* /University of Salerno, Italy & University of Regensburg, Germany/ */Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/* 📅 *May 26, 2025* 🕓 *4:40 PM – 5:30 PM (CEST)* *Venue*: Online *Attendees*: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary: *Accent discrimination remains one of the most pervasive forms of linguistic bias, influencing social perceptions, identity construction, and attitudes towards language variation. This talk examines how accents shape linguistic hierarchies and social interactions, drawing on three research projects that employ distinct methodologies. First, we will explore how folk linguistic methods, such as map-drawing tasks, reveal nuanced spatial dimensions of language attitudes, challenging homogenising conceptualisations of World Englishes. This will be illustrated through a study on how a first-generation Indian diasporic community in Germany perceives and evaluates accent variation in Indian English. We will then turn to traditional language attitude research methods, focusing on questionnaire data to investigate overt stigmatisations and highlighting the importance of scale validation in direct attitude measurement. This discussion will be grounded in a pilot study on Italian university students’ direct attitudes towards English in Italy and their perceptions of Italian English. Finally, we will examine language attitudes in primary education in Cameroon, emphasising the importance of understanding children’s language perceptions within broader ideological frameworks. This analysis draws on data from parental and children’s questionnaires, as well as semi-structured interviews with children. By shedding light on early linguistic gatekeeping and its role in decolonising language education, this study also explores when and how these beliefs become embedded in society. Taken together, these projects demonstrate how different methodological approaches can be employed to investigate attitudes towards accents and linguistic variation, ultimately providing insights into how we can better understand and tackle accent discrimination. *Bio*: Dr. Giuliana Regnoli is assistant professor of English linguistics at the University of Salerno and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Regensburg. Her research interests include variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language attitudes, perceptual dialectology, and World Englishes. She is currently working on children's English in Cameroon and Italian university students' attitudes toward English(es) world-wide. Upcoming webinars: - Clara Molina (Monday, June 30, 2025) - Sender Dovchin (Monday, July 7, 2025) - Christian Ilbury (Monday, September 22, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu.

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2nd CfP: The 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS)
by Ines Rehbein 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

2nd CfP: The 5th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS-2025) https://cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025 CPSS-2025 will be held in September 2025, co-located with KONVENS <https://konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de> in Hildesheim, Germany. The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of using CL/NLP techniques for the political and social sciences, including: * Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) * Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources * Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods * Political and social bias in language models * Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices * NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making * Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research * and many more... CPSS-2025 will be held in person. Special Theme The special theme of CPSS-2025 is *Validation and best practices for using NLP in political and social science research*. In addition to CPSS's general topics, we specifically invite submissions on this year's special theme, focussing on validation and best practices for applying NLP techniques for research in the political and social sciences. We are especially interested in papers addressing issues related to: * Data quality in human and synthetic data * Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs * New ways to collect data such as dataset donation * Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science. * Any other topics related to the special theme. *Important Dates* All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth.” Workshop papers due June 13, 2025 Notification of acceptance Aug 1, 2025 Camera-ready papers due Aug 10, 2025 Workshop date Sep 2025 *Submissions* We solicit two types of submissions: *archival papers* describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines. *non-archival papers* (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing ongoing work, PhD projects, or already published research. For more details, please refer to the CPSS-2025 website: https://cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025 *CPSS 2025 organising committee* Dennis Assenmacher (GESIS), Christopher Klamm (U-Mannheim), Gabriella Lapesa (GESIS/U-Düsseldorf), Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim), Ines Rehbein (U-Mannheim), Indira Sen (U-Mannheim) -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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Free Lancaster webinar - tomorrow
by Brezina, Vaclav 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear all, As part of our webinar series introducing MA and PG Cert programmes in Corpus Linguistics at Lancaster University, we offer a talk focused on applications of the corpus methodology "Corpus-based discourse analysis and the digital humanities" 2 April 2-3pm UK time. Register: https://forms.office.com/e/uppRBrE5AF Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 @vaclavbrezina

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LxGr2025: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 31 May '25

31 May '25

10th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2025) LxGr2025 will be held online on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July 2025. Symposium programme and registration (free): https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ 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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Webinar by: Mirella Lapata (The University of Edinburgh)
by HiTZ zentroa 30 May '25

30 May '25

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). This is the final webinar for this academic year. We will return with another series of webinars next fall, so be sure to stay tuned! Next webinar: Speaker: Mirella Lapata (The University of Edinburgh) Title: Prompting is *not* all you need! Or why Multi-LLM Collaboration Matters Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 15:00 CET Summary: Recent years have witnessed the rise of increasingly larger and more sophisticated language models (LMs) capable of performing every task imaginable, sometimes at (super)human level. In this talk, I will argue that in many realistic scenarios solely relying on a single general-purpose LLM is suboptimal. A single LLM is likely to under-represent real-world data distributions, heterogeneous skills, and task-specific requirements. Instead, I will discuss Multi-LLM collaboration as an alternative for compositional generative modeling. This approach leads to more effective problem-solving while being more inclusive and explainable. I will focus on narrative story generation tasks and demonstrate how these can be tackled by orchestrating a society of agents --- each pursuing individual goals while collectively working toward the overall task objective. Additionally, I will explore how these agent societies leverage reasoning to improve performance. Bio: Mirella Lapata is professor of natural language processing in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on getting computers to understand, reason with, and generate natural language. She is the first recipient (2009) of the British Computer Society and Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS/IRSG) Karen Sparck Jones award and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the ACL, and Academia Europaea. Mirella has also received best paper awards in leading NLP conferences and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Transactions of the ACL, and Computational Linguistics. She was president of SIGDAT (the group that organizes EMNLP) in 2018. She has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant, a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and a UKRI Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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CompℹLa2025 workshop
by David Sánchez 29 May '25

29 May '25

Dear collague, We would like to submit the following conference announcement to the Corpora mailing list: This is the 2025 edition of the Complexity in Language CompℹLa workshop, a satellite of the Conference on Complex Systems to be held in Siena (Italy). Our event will take place on September 4 and will be devoted to complex sytems approaches to language, ranging from statistical properties of language to the application of mathematical methods and data analysis to language variation and change. The scope of the meeting also emcompasses syntax and cognitive linguistics. Feel free to learn more by visiting https://compila2025.ifisc.uib-csic.es/ We emphasize that the program has slots for contributed talks, so everyone is invited to apply! Let me know if you need any additional information. Best regards, David Sanchez (on behalf of the organizers)

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Two fully-funded PhD positions at the CCL group at USI in Lugano, Switzerland
by Lonneke van der Plas 29 May '25

29 May '25

We have two fully-funded, four-year PhD positions available on a broad range of topics available in the Computation, Cognition, and Language group led by Prof. Lonneke van der Plas at USI Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. The ideal starting date is Sept/Oct 2025 (applications before June 15), but open until filled. Specifically, we are looking for applications in the following areas: * NLP for cognitive modelling, for example research on the computational modelling of creative thinking, reasoning and argumentation * Diachronic study of language using computational models * NLP for mental health * Multilingual NLP (including low-resource languages) * Foundations of Large Language Models More information here: https://sites.google.com/site/lonnekenlp/phd-positions-available

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CfP: Future Directions in Information Access FDIA 2025 at ESSIR 2025 in Wolverhampton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 28 May '25

28 May '25

FDIA 2025: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access Key Benefits: · Present your research to the academic community at FDIA 2025 (https://2025.essir.eu/fdia) · Receive valuable feedback from peers and established scholars · Connect with fellow researchers in Information Access and Retrieval · For the first time, accepted works can be presented at ECIR 2026 as an FDIA Track Poster! Submission Format: · 2-page abstract (excluding references) · Use one-column CEUR style format (CEURART.zip) · Submit as PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025 Important Dates: · June 16, 2025: Submission deadline · June 30, 2025: Notification of acceptance · July 3, 2025: Camera-ready deadline · July 9, 2025: FDIA Symposium in Wolverhampton (during ESSIR 2025, July 7-11) Are you an early-career researcher seeking a supportive environment to present your work and gain constructive feedback? This year's FDIA in Wolverhampton provides an ideal stepping stone in your academic journey. The 13th edition of our PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) will be held in conjunction with the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2025, https://2025.essir.eu/home, 07-11 July 2025). We cordially invite Masters and doctoral (PhD) students as well as early-stage researchers to participate in this forum, which offers a valuable opportunity to present your emerging research and receive feedback from peers and established scholars in the field. For the first time, accepted submissions will also be given the opportunity to present their work as a poster at the following European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)! By participating in the FDIA Symposium, you will gain experience presenting your research, receive constructive feedback, connect with fellow researchers, deepen your understanding of Information Retrieval concepts, and engage with thought-provoking presentations from experienced scholars. The symposium focuses on "Future Directions" by welcoming submissions that explore early-stage research, including pilot studies and initial findings, conceptual frameworks, current challenges, and doctoral work in progress. We use the term "Information Access" to encompass the broader spectrum of information retrieval, storage, and management, including interaction and usage aspects, reflecting the evolving nature of information systems in practice. We welcome submissions that present new research directions and emerging work in Information Access and Retrieval. Papers that stimulate discussion and offer fresh perspectives are particularly encouraged. The symposium provides a supportive environment for researchers to share preliminary findings, theoretical models, and innovative approaches that contribute to advancing the field. Areas of research include, but are not limited to: · Information Retrieval Theory · Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, User Modelling, Interactive IR · Collaborative Information Seeking and Searching · IR for Good · IR Evaluation · Learning to Rank · Retrieval-augmented Generation · Neural and Generative IR · Multimedia and Multimodal IR · Recommender Systems · Web IR · Clustering and Categorisation · Enterprise Search · Conversational Agents, knowledge graphs · IR Applications (e.g. Digital Humanities, News IR, Legal IR, IR and Bibliometrics, Academic Search and Recommendation, etc.) · NeuraSearch (use of fMRI, EEG, fNTIR, Eye Tracking, etc. in IR) Papers should be two pages in length, excluding references for presentation and poster (e.g., an outline of the PhD or Master’s project, a discussion of topics and ideas). Submissions should be converted to PDF and submitted via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025 We plan to publish the proceedings at CEUR-WS.org. Please use the one-column CEUR style (CEURART.zip). We strongly encourage students to submit as a solo author, but papers with several authors are welcome as well. A selection of papers will be invited to give a short oral and/or poster presentation. IMPORTANT DATES · June 16th, 2025: Submission Deadline · June 30th, 2025: Notification Deadline · July 3rd, 2025: Camera Ready Deadline · July 9th, 2025: FDIA in Wolverhampton (During ESSIR 07-11th of July, 2025) CONTACT: Please email fdia2025(a)easychair.org. MORE INFO: https://2025.essir.eu/fdia PC Chairs Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK Niall McGuire, University of Strathclyde, UK -- Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social

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VAR4LCR conference 2025 - registration until 22 June
by Sylvie De Cock 28 May '25

28 May '25

Second call for participation We would like to remind you that registration for the Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research conference (VAR4LCR) is possible until 22 June 2025. The conference will take place on 7 and 8 July 2025 in Louvain-la-Neuve and will feature Prof. Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University), Prof. Marije Michel (University of Groningen) and Prof. Shelley Staples (University of Arizona) as keynote speakers. A provisional programme as well as additional information (including a registration link) can be found on the conference website: https://www.uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cecl/register-and-task-…. Best wishes, The VAR4LCR Team

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3rd Call for Papers: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2025)
by Manuela Sanguinetti 28 May '25

28 May '25

-------------------------------------------------------------------- APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING -------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2025 - Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24 - 26 September 2025, Cagliari, Italy https://clic2025.unica.it/ Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2025 will be held in Cagliari, from the 24th to the 26th of September. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2025 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2024 and 2025 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2025 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2025 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. The research communication papers will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster according to the number of submissions received. Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2025 allows for a multiple-submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2025 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of at least six (6) and no more than eight (8) pages of content, and up to three (3) pages of references. Supplementary material is also allowed, but it should not exceed one (1) page in length. Authors are reminded that all relevant content should be included in the main text of the paper. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published online and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC-it-2025-template.… Word template https://clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CLiC_it_2025_template.… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/read/hzyckyjzwhwb#06b27c This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2025 For research communications, the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is the first author and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. Important Dates --------------- - 09/06/2025: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 21/07/2025: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 04/08/2025: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 24-26/09/2025: CLiC-it 2025 Conference, Cagliari Conference Chairs ------ - Cristina Bosco (University of Torino) - Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Manuela Sanguinetti (University of Cagliari) Senior Program Committee: ------ Elisa Bassignana (IT University of Copenhagen) Pierluigi Cassotti (University of Gothenburg) Simone Conia (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Elisa Di Nuovo (Joint Research Centre European Commission - Ispra) Claudiu Daniel Hromei (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Antonio Origlia (University of Naples “Federico II”) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Bologna) Beatrice Savoldi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Gabriele Sarti (University of Groningen) Lucia Siciliani (University of Bari) Irene Siragusa (University of Palermo) Rossella Varvara (University of Turin - University of Pavia) Alessandro Vietti (University of Bolzano) Local Organizing Committee: ------ - Maurizio Atzori (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Andrea Loddo (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandro Pani (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Alessandra Perniciano (DMI, University of Cagliari) - Luca Zedda (DMI, University of Cagliari) Web chairs: ------ Maurizio Atzori Andrea Loddo Further information ------------------- Conference website: https://clic2025.unica.it/ Mail: clicit2025cagliari(a)gmail.com

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