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Postdoctoral reasearcher in LLM at IRFM (Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research) at CEA Cadarache, France
by feda.almuhisen＠cea.fr 23 Jun '24

23 Jun '24

You will be recruited to work on the Eurofusion project "Towards Tokamak operations Conversational AI Interface Using Multimodal Large Language Models" All the details are availbel in the following link : https://www.emploi.cea.fr/offre-de-emploi/emploi-postdoctoral-reasearcher-i…

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[CIKM-2024] Deadline extension for Industry Day Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

** NEW DEADLINE ** ** Industry Day deadline June 27th ** =============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-industry-day-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances in data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high-quality, applied and theoretical research findings. We call for technical talks which will cover how topics of interest relevant to the broader CIKM community, including but not limited to knowledge management, information retrieval, efficient data processing, neural and large language models, evaluation, recommender systems, data mining, and others found in the CIKM ‘24 Call for Papers are used in an industrial setting. Possible topics include how machine learning is put to use in practical scenarios, how user behavior can be observed and interpreted, how to improve systems in practice, how industrial pipelines can be optimized, and how scale is a challenge in more ways than the obvious. We also encourage talk proposals from small companies, such as startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Submissions Due: June 20th, 2024 * Notifications: July 16, 2024 * Camera ready for abstracts: August 8, 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) The Industry Day of CIKM ’24 will be held on Monday 21st Oct 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- Talks may address challenges, solutions, and case studies of interesting and innovative systems in areas including but not limited to: * Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products * System design from industry practitioners which identify best practices and design principles for machine learning systems and their scalability aspects * Metrics and measurement techniques used to understand performance of production systems * Practical challenges such as data, privacy, integrity, scale, regulation, etc. * Domain specific challenges and niche focuses * Connections with academia to solve interesting problems, including talk proposals from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners We encourage talk proposals from small companies, such as startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company. -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template). https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Submissions should include: * Title and abstract * Speaker's bio * Relevance to above themes and CIKM topics * CIKM is a technical conference, so preference will be given to talks describing applied research and technical challenges rather than product presentations. * Speakers will be asked to confirm their presence at the conference if their submission is accepted. Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm2024 The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit an abstract to be published in the conference proceedings. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes long including Q&A. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the Industry Day chairs: cikm2024-industry [at] easychair [dot] org Ilaria Bordino, UniCredit, Italy Udayan Khurana, IBM Research, USA Marc Najork, Google DeepMind, USA

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Fully unded PhD position for project: “Can a robot impersonate a human? Studying machines’ ability to mimic linguistic identity”
by Andrea Nini 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that we are recruiting a PhD student for a fully-funded (tuition and stipend) position for the project: “Can a robot impersonate a human? Studying machines’ ability to mimic linguistic identity” funded by an ESRC North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership grant. The position is in collaboration with Naimuri<https://naimuri.com> and contains a substantial element of industrial experience. The project will address the following research questions: (1) To what extent can LLMs impersonate a specific individual such that they can fool forensic linguistic detection? (2) How do we modify existing detection methods to mitigate the problems identified in (1)? Details and application form can be found here: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/can-a-robot-impersonate-a-human-study…. Best wishes, Andrea ___ Dr Andrea Nini | Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language NG13, Samuel Alexander Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK +44 (0) 161 275 8529 | andrea.nini(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:andrea.nini@manchester.ac.uk> www.andreanini.com<http://www.andreanini.com>

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2nd CfP: StaGe-Shared Task @ KONVENS 2024
by Regina Stodden 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

We invite the community to participate in a text labelling Shared Task regarding the segmentation of statements in German Easy Language (STaGE), co-located at KONVENS 2024 [1] in Vienna, Austria. For more information, visit: https://german-easy-to-read.github.io/statements or https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3244/ [2] Motivation: Assessing the complexity of sentences is still an object of ongoing research. One aspect of sentence complexity is the number of statements. Knowing the different statements conveyed in a sentence is important for numerous NLP tasks, such as extracting the different statements to further simplify the original sentence by separating it into statement-reduced sentences. Another use case is in-depth fact-checking of the isolated statements or the readability evaluation of the text in accordance with Easy Languages guidelines. However, for German, there exists no implementation to extract statements automatically. Our shared task aims to analyze and annotate the number of statements in German Easy language (DE: "Leichte Sprache") texts. We have decided on German Easy Language, since this language variety recommends the usage of sentences with a reduced number of statements. Therefore, it profits from the results and automated analysis implemented in our task. Important dates: * 14.06.2024: Start evaluation 1st phase: Development * 28.06.2024: Start evaluation 2nd phase: Final * 12.07.2024: End evaluation (last submissions possible) * 12.07.2024: Paper submission due (single-blind) * 26.07.2024: Acceptance notification * 02.08.2024: Camera-ready due * 13.09.2024: Workshop date Feel free to contact us via statements(a)soc.cit.tum.de We are looking forward to your participation! Best regards, Miriam Anschütz, Thorben Schomacker & Regina Stodden Links: ------ [1] https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/ [2] https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3244/

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Global WordNet Conference 2025 First Call for Papers
by Itziar Gonzalez Dios 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

[ Apologies for crossposting ] *Global WordNet Conference 2025 - GWC2025* The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the *13th International Global Wordnet Conference* (GWC2025), to be held in *Pavia (Italy) from 27 to 31 January, 2025*. The GWC2025 conference will be hosted by the Department of Humanities, at the University of Pavia. [image: 📍] *Dates*: 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025 *Location*: Pavia, Italy *Meeting Email*: gwc2025pavia(a)unipv.it *Web Site*: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/ [image: 🗓️] *Call Deadline*: 07-Oct-2024 We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. *Presentations of new WordNets *will be assigned to a dedicated panel. Additionally, proposals for tutorials and demonstrations or panel discussions on *WordNet for ancient languages* are encouraged. Conference topics: - Lexical semantics and meaning representation; - Architecture of lexical databases; - Tools and methods for WordNet development; - Applications of WordNet; - Standardization, distribution and availability of WordNet and WordNet tools See the full call for papers here: https://easychair.org/cfp/gwc2025

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PhD student contract in Natural Language Processing - Nancy, France
by Mathieu Constant 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

You can find below an offer for a PhD student contract in Natural Processing at Univ. of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Subject: Automatic generation of explanations for multiword expressions in the context of language learning Thesis supervisors: Mathieu Constant (ATILF, Univ. Lorraine, France) and Patrick Watrin (CENTAL, Univ. of Louvain, Belgium) Thesis funded for three years by the ANR STAR-FLE project Start date: 1 October 2024 Salary: 2135,00 € gross monthly Host laboratory: ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) Location: Nancy, France Application deadline: July 11, 2024 Scientific background: The successful candidate will join the ATILF, a research unit in language sciences, and in particular the research group on natural language processing (NLP). This research group works, among other things, on exploiting recent NLP models for linguistic modelling (e.g. lexical modelling) with applications in the medical field and language learning. In particular, its work is based on the integration of large (generative) language models and knowledge bases (e.g. scientific textual data, lexical resources). More specifically, the thesis will be part of the STAR-FLE project (STrategic Adaptations for better Reading and Text Comprehension in FFL) funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche for 4 years (2024-2027). The project is in the field of computer-assisted language teaching. The aim of STAR-FLE is to gain a better understanding of the difficulties encountered by learners of French as a foreign language (FFL) when faced with the lexicon present in authentic texts. It will propose digital solutions based on natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate text comprehension and enable teachers to better manage heterogeneous levels in the classroom. Contextual aids and personalized vocabulary adaptations are envisaged, particularly for multiword expressions. Objectives: The thesis will focus on multiword expressions. They correspond to combinations of several lexical units which are composed in an irregular manner on one or more linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, etc.). This term covers a wide variety of phenomena, such as idiomatic expressions (run around in circles, dry run), support verb constructions (take a walk), complex functional units (in spite of), etc. This non-compositionality, which can lead to a certain semantic opacity, can pose problems for learners when reading. In this thesis, the person recruited will develop methods based on new NLP techniques to produce in-context explanatory card enabling learners to better understand these expressions. The production of these cards will be based on the prediction of linguistic properties (e.g. a dry run is not dry), on the generation of natural language explanations using large generative language models (e.g. paraphrases), or on semantic linking to different lexical resources (e.g. to retrieve definitions and lexical neighbors), depending on the context in which the expression occurs. One of the challenges will be to propose explanatory cards adapted to the learner's level. Application requirements and procedures Candidates should have the following skills and profiles: - a Master's degree in computational linguistics, in natural language processing, in computer science or in cognitive science. - very good programming skills - very good skills in recent models of natural language processing (e.g. large language models). Applications should include a cover letter, CV and Master's grades, together with references or one or more letters of recommendation. They should be submitted at the following url: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7118-SABMAR-020/Default.aspx?lan… <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7118-SABMAR-020/Default.aspx?lan…> For more information, do not hesitate to contact Mathieu Constant (Mathieu.Constant(a)univ-lorraine.fr <mailto:Mathieu.Constant@univ-lorraine.fr>).

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Practical D2T 2024 @ INLG 2024 - First call for papers (data-to-text, neuro-symbolic, shared task)
by Simone Balloccu 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

The 2nd Workshop on Practical LLM-assisted Data-to-Text Generation (Practical D2T 2024) While large language models (LLMs) offer to become a viable alternative to traditional rule-based data-to-text (D2T) natural language generation (NLG), they still suffer from well-known neural model issues, such as lack of controllability and risk of producing harmful text. There are many potential solutions to this problem up for discussion. The Practical D2T workshop at INLG 2024 aims to build a space for researchers to discuss and present innovative work on D2T systems using LLMs. Building upon the 2023 edition’s hackathon, Practical D2T 2024 opens up a broader range of activities, including a special track for neuro-symbolic D2T approaches and a shared task in D2T evaluation focused on semantic accuracy. Website: https://practicald2t.github.io/ Practical D2T 2023 at INLG 2023: https://practicald2t.github.io/2023/ Workshop Topic and Content Practical D2T 2024 will be a full-day in-person-only event. We welcome contributions from both original unpublished work and non-archival submissions, in the form of long (8 pages) or short (4 pages) papers, on topics including but not limited to: - Design, implementation and evaluation of LLM-assisted D2T systems - Cross-domain adaption of LLMs for D2T - User perceptions and acceptance of LLM-generated text in D2T - Bias, fairness and red-teaming issues in LLM-assisted D2T systems - Leveraging LLMs for D2T in low-resource languages and domains - Error analysis and debugging techniques for LLM-assisted D2T - Human-in-the-loop approaches for improving LLM-assisted D2T - Comparison between LLM-assisted D2T and traditional symbolic approaches Special Track: Neuro-Symbolic D2T Research is currently seeing a renewed interest in developing systems combining neural and symbolic approaches to improve explainability and reduce dependence on training data. Practical D2T 2024 will feature a special track on neuro-symbolic approaches to D2T. Submissions for papers in the special track follow the same requirements and procedure as the main workshop submissions. Shared task: Improving Semantic Accuracy in LLM-assisted D2T This year will feature a shared task on improving semantic accuracy of D2T systems. Participants will build an LLM-assisted D2T system to generate textual reports from various domains, such as weather forecasting, product descriptions or sports reports. We will provide testing data obtained from public APIs, to limit potential previous exposure to the used LLMs. We encourage participants to focus on system robustness and objective evaluation, rather than metrics scores. Because of this, participants will receive an initial evaluation script, that they are encouraged to change/improve. All submitted system’s outputs will be evaluated against every submitted custom evaluation, and correlated with human ratings. The system reaching the highest correlation with humans will be declared winner of the competition. Results and participants’ system descriptions will be featured in the workshop proceedings. For more info, visit the workshop website: https://practicald2t.github.io/pages/cfp Important dates Note: all deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12. - Evaluation script and data release for known domains (shared task) 24 June - Regular paper submission (main & special track, archival & non-archival): 22 July - Known domains system output submission & surprise domain data release: 29 July - Surprise domain system outputs submission: 5 August - System description submission (shared task): 12 August - Notification of acceptance (main, special track and shared task): 19 August - Camera-ready (main, special track and shared task): 28 August - Workshop: 23/24 September (to be announced) Contacts and more info: Find detailed information about submission, deadlines and contacts on the official Practical D2T 2024 website: https://practicald2t.github.io/ For any query, contact the organiser at d2t2024(a)googlegroups.com If you have any problem with the above mail group, contact balloccu(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz Organisers Simone Balloccu, Ondřej Dušek, Patrícia Schmidtová, Zdeněk Kasner, Kristýna Onderková, Ondřej Plátek, Mateusz Lango, Ondřej Dušek - Charles University (CZ) Ehud Reiter - University of Aberdeen (UK) Lucie Flek - University of Bonn (DE) Simon Mille - ADAPT Centre (UK) Dimitra Gkatzia - Edinburgh Napier University (UK)

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ArgNLE: Natural Language Argument-Based Explanations - Workshop at ECAI 2024
by elena_cabrio 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

*Call for Papers: *The First Workshop on Natural Language Argument-Based Explanations (ArgNLE - https://argnle.github.io/ECAI-ArgNLE/) Co-located with ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/). Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. *Workshop description* Explainability and Computational Argumentation have usually been approached as separate, independent research topics, which neglects many aspects arising from considering the interdependencies between them. To be effective for human users, explanations are required to be formulated in natural language, possibly in an argumentative fashion. A workshop on exploring Natural language Argument-based Explanations is proposed to investigate this challenging topic, at the crossroad of these different research fields. Providing high quality explanations for AI predictions based on machine learning is a challenging and complex task. To work well it requires, among other factors: selecting a proper level of generality/specificity of the explanation; considering assumptions about the familiarity of the explanation beneficiary with the AI task under consideration; referring to specific elements that have contributed to the decision; making use of additional knowledge (e.g., metadata) which might not be part of the prediction process; selecting appropriate examples; providing evidence supporting negative hypothesis. Finally, the system needs to formulate the explanation in a clearly interpretable, and possibly convincing, way. Given these considerations, the workshop welcomes contributions showing an integrated vision of Explainable AI (XAI), where low level characteristics of the deep learning process are combined with higher level schemas proper of the human argumentation capacity. These integrated vision relies on three main considerations: i) In neural architectures the correlation between internal states of the network and the justification of the network classification outcome is not well studied; ii) High quality explanations are crucially based on argumentation mechanisms (e.g., provide supporting examples and rejected alternatives); iii) In real settings, providing explanations is inherently an interactive process involving the system and the user. Accordingly, the workshop calls for cross-disciplinary contributions in three areas, i.e., deep learning, argumentation and interactivity, to support a broader and innovative view of explainable AI. More precisely, the workshop is intended to discuss research challenges that will allow to advance the state of the art in explainable AI. Providing explanations to support a certain conclusion has been largely studied in logic, as a fundamental characteristic of human reasoning. As a result, both theoretical and computational models of human argumentation are investigated. The recent resurgence of AI highlighted the idea that low level system behaviors not only need to be interpretable (e.g., showing those elements that most contributed to the system decision), but also need to fit high level human schemas to produce convincing arguments. ** *Topics of interest* * Natural language argument-based explanations * Dialectical, dialogical and conversational explanations * AI methods to support argumentative explainability * User-acceptance and evaluation of argumentation-based explanations * Tools that provide argumentation-based explanations * Use of argument-based explanations for research from the social sciences, digital humanities, and related fields * Real-world applications The workshop solicits the submission of three types of contributions relevant to the workshop topics and suitable to generate discussion: * Original, unpublished contributions * Dataset related submissions (presenting a dataset or a corpus related to the workshop topics, that has been or is currently under development. These papers may have already been published in another venue). * Projects related submissions (presenting funded projects or lines of work within the topics of the workshop, both academic and industrial). *Invited speaker* Professor Francesca Toni, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/f.toni) *Important Dates * * Paper submission: 31 May 2024 * Notification of acceptance: 1 July 2024 * Camera-ready papers: 31 July 2024 * ArgNLE workshop: 19 or 20 October 2024 *Submission Instructions *Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ECAI LaTeX template, and not exceed 7 pages (not including references). The ECAI LaTeX Template can be found at https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argnle2024 *Workshop Organizers:* * Rodrigo Agerri <https://ragerri.github.io/> - HiTZ Center - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain * Elena Cabrio <https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Elena.Cabrio/> - Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France * Serena Villata <https://webusers.i3s.unice.fr/~villata/Home.html> - Université Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France * Marcin Lewinski <https://ifilnova.pt/en/people/marcin-lewinski/> - IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal * Bernardo Magnini <http://hlt.fbk.eu/people/magnini> - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy * Marie-Francine Moens <https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~sien.moens/> - KU Leuven, Belgium

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Final call: 3-years PhD/PostDoc position on NLP for Social Good at Leibniz University Hannover (due June 23)
by h.wachsmuth＠ai.uni-hannover.de 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

The Institute of Artificial Intelligence invites applications for the position of a DOCTORAL OR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER (M/F/D) ON THE TOPIC OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) FOR SOCIAL GOOD (SALARY SCALE 13 TV-L, 100%) starting in September 2024 or soon afterwards. The position is limited to a period of three years with the possibility of extension. TASKS The goal of the offered position is to carry out innovative research on NLP, aiming for scientific publications at reputed international venues. The research should involve LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMs) related to NLP FOR SOCIAL GOOD. We support the development of own research directions in this broad context. The position also comes with a teaching duty of four hours per week; the candidate is expected to lead tutorials and/or programming labs as well as to support the supervision of bachelor's and master’s students. We are looking for highly motivated candidates with a passion for creativity and learning who seek to make a positive impact through open and independent research in a young team. YOUR PROFILE - Completed academic degree (Master or comparable) in computer science, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, or related disciplines - Solid understanding of machine learning with hands-on experience, ideally in the context of NLP and LLMs - Proficient programming skills in Python - Good scientific writing skills (for example, shown by a very good master’s thesis) are expected - Strong communication skills in English, both in oral and in written form TEAM The position will be placed in the NLP Group at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence. We are a diverse and international team, studying how humans express their views and intentions in language, and how LLMs can understand and create such language in a fair, trustworthy, and explainable way. Our research tackles interdisciplinary questions from the humanities and social sciences, while building on state-of-the-art NLP techniques, such as instruction fine-tuning and contrastive learning. We seek to do cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence methods that have a positive impact on society and the world. OUR OFFER - Creative and innovative work in a diverse and international team - Possibility to obtain a Ph.D. degree or to shape your Postdoc profile - State-of-the-art research facilities, including top-notch computing clusters - Participation in international scientific events and research collaborations - Salary at the level of 100% of salary scale 13 according to the Collective Agreement for the Public Service of the Länder (TV-L) D&I Leibniz University Hannover considers itself a family-friendly university and therefore promotes a balance between work and family responsibilities. Part-time employment can be arranged upon request. The university aims to promote equality between women and men. For this purpose, the university strives to reduce under-representation in areas where a certain gender is under-represented. Women are under-represented in the salary scale of the advertised position. Therefore, qualified women are encouraged to apply. Moreover, we welcome applications from qualified men. Preference will be given to equally-qualified applicants with disabilities. QUESTIONS In case you have questions, please contact Maja Stahl (email: m.stahl(a)ai.uni-hannover.de). Further information about the NLP Group can be found at: https://www.ai.uni-hannover.de/en/institute/research-groups/nlp For information on the salary scales, see: https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2023&matrix… APPLICATION Please submit your application with supporting documents (including CV, full set of transcripts, a brief statement of at most 1 page of why you apply to the NLP Group, and possibly further qualifications) by June 23, 2024 as A SINGLE PDF FILE to Email: office(a)ai.uni-hannover.de (subject: “[ai-nlp] Application”) or alternatively by post to: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Institute of Artificial Intelligence Prof. Dr. Henning Wachsmuth Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover Germany http://www.uni-hannover.de/jobs Information on the collection of personal data according to article 13 GDPR can be found at https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/datenschutzhinweis-bewerbungen/.

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LxGr2024: Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 19 Jun '24

19 Jun '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Symposium programme: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023 Registration is now open: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… If you have any questions, or if you want to be added to the LxGr mailing list, 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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