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2 Open Research Positions, Bielefeld University, Semantic Computing Group, Application Deadline: 20th of March
by cimiano＠cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

The Semantic Computing Group at Bielefeld University performs research at the intersection of natural language processing and knowledge representation. We have two openings for research positions in the LLM4KMU project. The project is carried out in cooperation with several companies in the area of Bielefeld (Semalytix, CLAAS, PrimeLine, MatPlus etc.) and has the goal of understanding how LLM-based models can be adapted effectively to real use cases. The research involves investigating the adaptation, transfer, etc. of models across tasks. It also involves researching how models can be made more robust and how hallucinations can be reduced. The two available positions will have a different focus: Position Wiss25002: The position holder will work in particular in the area of text generation and develop and evaluate new methods for smaller companies. Conceivable examples include methods for interacting with unstructured data or methods for improving and maintaining corporate language. In addition, the position holder will be responsible for leading and implementing the development of a benchmarking platform for LLMs. on non-academic tasks. See [1] for details. Position Wiss25008: The position holder will conduct research in the field of information extraction and develop methods for extracting information from published clinical studies. On this basis, a portal for searching and summarizing the results of clinical studies will be developed. See [2] for details. Position requirements: - master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, data science or a related field, - demonstrated ability to work scientifically (e.g. through Master thesis or publications) - strong analytical, conceptual and communicative skills - ability to work in a larger team The following aspects are a plus but not necessary: - experience in natural language processing or natural language generation learning, LLMs, - experience in software development in a non-academic environment - experience in the development of web applications (only for Position Wiss25008). The positions are available for 3 years starting from June 2025. The positions offer the opportunity to pursue a PhD. Postdoctoral candidates can apply as well. Knowledge of German is not required but is an advantage. The application deadline is the 20th of March, 2025. Please send your applications to cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni <mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni>-bielefeld with a CV, short motivation letter and publication record, if applicable. Please indicate in your application whether you are applying for Position Wiss25002 or Position Wiss25008, or both. [1] https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4054/research-position-text-gener… [2] https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/4059/research-position-informatio… Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) Universität Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Personal Zoom Room: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/my/pcimiano Office CITEC-2.307 Universitätsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany

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2nd Call for Participation: SHARED TASK in analysis of Persuasion Techniques — in parliamentary debates and social media, for Slavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '25

*Call for Participation* ** Shared Task: Detection and Classification of Persuasion Techniquesin Parliamentary Debates and Social Media, for Slavic Languages * Co-located with Slav-NLP 2025 <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, at ACL 2025 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> * * TASK DESCRIPTION: * * The task focuses on detection and classification of Persuasion Techniques in 5 Slavic languages — Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian, Slovene and Russian — in two types of texts: (a) parliamentary debates on hotly-contested topics, and (b) social media posts, related to the spread of disinformation. The task has two subtasks: 1. Subtask 1: Detection — Given a text and a list of fragment offsets, determine for each fragment whether it contains one or more persuasion techniques, from a given taxonomy of persuasion techniques, 2. Subtask 2: Classification —Given a text and a list of fragment offsets, determine for each fragment which persuasion techniques are employed therein. We use a rich taxonomy with 25 persuasion techniques: Name-calling or labelling, Guilt by association, Casting doubt, Appeal to hypocrisy, Questioning the reputation, Flag waiving, Appeal to authority, Appeal to popularity, Appeal to fear and prejudice, Appeal to values, Strawman, Whataboutism, Red herring, Appeal to pity, Causal oversimplification, False dilemma or no choice, Consequential oversimplification, False equivalence, Slogans, Conversation killer, Appeal to time, Loaded language, Obfuscation-Intentional vagueness-confusion, Exaggeration or minimization, Repetition. Subtask 1 is a binary classification task, while Subtask 2 is a multi-class multi-label classification task. The text fragments correspond to paragraphs. For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation, please see theShared Task Home Page. <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> IMPORTANT: Participants may join both subtasks or only one. It is not mandatory to submit responses for all languages. Up to 5 system responses per language per team may be submitted. Important Dates * Registration deadline: 20 April 2025 * Release of Testdata to registered participants: *22 April*2025 * Submission of system responses: 26 April 2023 * Results announced to participants: *29*April 2025 * Submission of shared task papers (optional): 11 May 2025 * ** *Questions and contact: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi<mailto:bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi>* -- Roman Yangarber Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learning Language Learning Lab Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 revitaAI.github.io <https://revitaai.github.io> helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab>

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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Prof. Rob Drummond "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 04 Mar '25

04 Mar '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/>.** * Speaker:Rob Drummond (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Title:Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) languageDate: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET Venue: OnlineAttendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors Summary:I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade people to have a more accepting attitude towards language variation and language change. In fact, we should be doing a lot more than accepting it – we should be enjoying it and celebrating the fact that we all use language in different ways. We should take time to appreciate the fundamental connection between the way we speak, and who we are. In this talk, I will present my top ten reflections and insights that aim to improve everyone’s relationship with their own, and other people’s, use of English. Bio:Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he researches, teaches and writes about the relationship between spoken language and identity. He recently led the community-focused Manchester Voices project, exploring the accents, dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester, and he co-leads The Accentism Project, which strives to challenge and raise awareness of language-based prejudice. Rob does a lot of public-facing academic work and is the author of You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak (Scribe Publications, 2023), a book for a general audience that sheds light on the fascinating relationship between ourselves and our language. Upcoming webinars:· Sender Dovchin (Monday, April 14, 2025)· Alice Henderson (Monday, April 28, 2025)· Ana Tankosic (Thursday, June 5, 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 <mailto:contact@circe-project.eu>. * -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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GITT-2025 at MT Summit - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED TO MARCH 16th
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Third International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at MT Summit 2025 23 June 2025, Geneva, Switzerland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2025 @gitt-workshop.bsky.social Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED We extend the GITT submission deadline to March 16th 2025. NEW Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 16 March, 2025 Notification of Acceptance: 7 April, 2025 Camera Ready Copy due: 21 April, 2025 Workshop: 23 June, 2025 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LMs applications for the translation task. **Topics** GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) **Submission** We welcome four types of submissions, two archival and two non-archival. ARCHIVAL - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (excluding references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. NON-ARCHIVAL - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including references). We include a parallel submission policy in the form of Research Communications for papers related to the topic of GITT that were accepted in other venues in 2024 and 2025. - Potluck Communications: short abstract up to 500 words (including references). Potluck Communications offer a space for anyone—especially students and early career researchers—to discuss bold new ideas for collaboration, brainstorm about ongoing work, and explore future research directions. The communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. All submissions should adhere to the MT Summit 2025 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mtsummit2025) **Workshop organizers** Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Chiara Manna, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg

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The Second Call for NLP for Positive Impact Workshop @ ACL2025
by Daryna Dementieva 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

Dear all, We are extending the deadline for our NLP4PI workshop for a month! If you want to have a publication at ACL2025, our workshop can be an option😉 New dates: *Direct Submissions Due: March 30th, 2025* Submit via: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2025/Workshop/NLP4PosImpact Notification of Acceptance: May 15th, 2025 Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 30th, 2025 Workshop Date: July 31st or August 1st 2025 (co-located with ACL 2025) All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth) We are waiting for your amazing submissions🤗 Workshop Summary The increasing adoption of language-oriented AI systems offers unprecedented opportunities for positive societal impact. NLP technologies have matured to the point where they can meaningfully contribute to addressing global challenges like poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19, and climate change, aligning with the UN sustainability goals. This workshop aims to advance innovative NLP research that benefits society, emphasizing responsible methods and impactful applications. We welcome submissions in areas including, but not limited to: - Grounding NLP in Real-World Impact: Beyond improving model performance, how can NLP systems be directly tied to social outcomes? This could include case studies of real-world deployments or strategies for better deployment and maintenance practices. - Underexplored Applications: While NLP for healthcare and mental well-being is well-established, we encourage research tackling overlooked areas such as poverty, hunger, energy, and climate change. - Interdisciplinary Collaborations: We highly value work that integrates insights from other fields, such as social science, political science, economics, philanthropy, and HCI, and we encourage submissions of case studies or examples that highlight such collaborations. Special Theme: NLP for Climate Change This year, we spotlight NLP’s role in addressing climate change—an area that remains underexplored in the NLP community. We invite research on climate-focused applications, such as fact-checking, question-answering, and initiatives to make NLP models more environmentally sustainable. Attendees will have the chance to share results and ideas with NGO representatives working on climate issues. Submission Types We encourage diverse contributions, including: - Identifying social needs and affected demographics. - Proposing new tasks or directions through position papers. - Conducting literature reviews or philosophical discussions on NLP’s societal impact. - Designing user studies, surveys, or ethical frameworks. - Exploring interdisciplinary methods and collaboration strategies. Submissions must address the ethical and societal implications of the work, with a clear focus on defining and achieving positive impact. We look forward to fostering discussions that inspire actionable, responsible advancements in NLP for the greater good. *More details: * https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact/call-for-papers-2025 Organizers Katherine Atwell (Northeastern University) Prof. Laura Biester (Middlebury College) Angana Borah (University of Michigan) Dr. Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Prof Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University) Dr. Neema Kotonya (Dataminr) Ziyi Liu (University of Southern California) Ruyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University) Prof Steven Wilson (University of Michigan-Flint) Prof Jieyu Zhao (University of Southern California) Steering Committee Prof Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan) Dr. Joel Tetreault (Dataminr) Contact Email: nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com All positive regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers

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LDK 2025, Deadline extension 24/03/2025
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 03 Mar '25

03 Mar '25

**Apologies for cross-posting** The paper submission deadline for LDK 2025 has been extended until the 24th of March 2025! CFP Below ============== Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) Dates: 9-12 September 2025 Location: Naples, Italy Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023. Paper Submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data Language data construction and acquisition Language data annotation FAIR data practices for language data Language data portals and metadata about language data Organisational and infrastructural management of language data Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data Visualisation of language data Standards and interoperability of language data Legal aspects of publishing language data Under-resourced languages e-Lexicography Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning) Data, information and knowledge integration across languages (Cross-lingual) ontology alignment Entity linking and relatedness Linked data profiling Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge Question answering and semantic search Text analytics on big data NLP for language documentation and preservation Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language processing Semantic content management Computer-aided language learning Natural language interfaces to big data Knowledge-based NLP Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models). Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising Committee Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom | EuroMov Digital Health in Motion Proceedings Chair: Max Ionov, University of Zaragoza, Spain Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Johanna Monti - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 24th March, 2025 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025 Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025 Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)

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9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @ACL: 3rd CFP
by Agostina Calabrese 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

*** Third Call for Papers – DEADLINES UPDATED *** We invite paper submissions to the 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on July 31/August 1 at ACL 2025. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates * Submission due: April 18, 2025 * ARR reviewed submission due: May 20, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2025 * Camera-ready papers due: June 13, 2025 * Workshop: July 31st - August 1st, 2025 Overview Digital technologies have brought significant benefits to society, transforming how people connect, communicate, and interact. However, these same technologies have also enabled the widespread dissemination and amplification of abusive and harmful content, such as hate speech, harassment, and misinformation. Given the sheer volume of content shared online, addressing abuse and harm at scale requires the use of computational tools. Yet, detecting and moderating online abuse remains a complex task, fraught with technical, social, legal, and ethical challenges. The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a diverse range of fields, including but not limited to natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary research, technical and non-technical contributions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. Non-archival papers and civil society reports are also welcome. Topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations in existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful content, especially those in commercial use; * Development of new datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * Novel evaluation metrics and procedures for detecting harmful content; * Analyses of the dynamics of online abuse, its propagation, and its impact on different communities; * Social, legal, and ethical considerations in detecting, monitoring, and moderating online abuse. Special Theme: Harms Beyond Hate Speech In its 9th edition, WOAH highlights the theme Harms Beyond Hate Speech. We aim to expand the conversation beyond conventional definitions of harmful content by exploring the nuanced ways online harms manifest—such as technologically mediated inauthentic behavior, the power of technologies to reshape perceptions and opinions, and their potential to incite discrimination, hostility, violence, or even genocide. Additionally, we emphasize the diverse targets affected by such harms and the unique considerations computational interventions demand. To facilitate this exploration, we invite NLP researchers, social scientists, cultural scholars, and practitioners to engage with key issues, including child sexual abuse material, radicalization, misinformation, platform policies, security, and the politics of computational approaches. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, our goal is to deepen understanding of these complex phenomena and advance effective, ethical solutions Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2025/woah2025/ The workshop will accept three types of papers: 1) Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL style files<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. WOAH Community We are excited to share the WOAH community Slack channel — a workspace for researchers interested in or working on understanding and addressing online abuse and harms! Join us here: https://join.slack.com/t/hatespeechdet-47d7560/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-g… Contact Info Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Christine de Kock, University of Melbourne Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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up to 8 PhD student positions in neuroexplicit models of Language, Vision and Action (Saarland Univ. Germany)
by Vera Demberg 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for *up to 8 PhD Students - Fall 2025* Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of *24 PhD students* by 2025. An excellent and international group of twelve PhD students and one postdoc have already joined the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~20 associated PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are collocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions will be *funded for four years* at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. They are intended to start in September 2025. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the *leading centers for research* in computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 40 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be *jointly supervised by two PhD advisors* from the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by *24th March 2024* to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org and include the reference number W2616. We aim to conduct job interviews in April-May 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023>https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/

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Reminder/CfR: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop, April 2-4, Berlin)
by Michael Zichert 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, registration is now open for our upcoming workshop on "Large Language Models (LLMs) in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (HPSS)"! The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. The event will open at around 1:30 PM on April 2 and end at around 5 PM on April 4. Further information is available at https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss Register here: https://events.tu-berlin.de/en/events/0194f579-606f-75e9-9be9-c2167c356171/… Early registration is greatly appreciated as it will help us with further planning. The deadline for registration is March 28, 2025 but we will also try to accommodate “walk-ins”. Please don’t hesitate to reach out in case you need more information. Kind regards, The organizers

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Webminar by Christian Herff (Maastricht University)
by HiTZ zentroa 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '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). You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Christian Herff (Maastricht University) *Title:* Speech neuroprostheses based on intracranial EEG *Date: * Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Speech is our most natural way of communication and the loss of the ability to speak is therefore devastating to patients. A speech neuroprostheses that directly reconstructs speech processes from neural activity could provide a new means of communications to these severely affected patients. In this presentation, I will present some approaches to reconstruct different representations of speech from intracranial recordings and highlight how they can be used to build a speech neuroprosthesis. The decoding of speech processes is particularly challenging, as not only the neural, but also the target signal has complex, nonlinear dynamics. I will stress the use of interpretable machine learning models for this task to ensure that meaningful activity is decoded and scientific insights might be generated as a side product. *Bio:* Dr. Christian Herff is an assistant professor in the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience at Maastricht University where he leads the invasive BCI research line. His research interest lays in the application of machine learning technology to neurophysiological data for Brain-Computer Interfaces and neuroscience research. With a particular focus on the decoding of speech processes from intracranial data, he tries to improve the lives of severely paralyzed patients while simultaneously improving our understanding of complex higher order cognition. He emphasizes the ability to achieve interpretable results based on computational models. In particular, visualization of complex dynamic models, such as deep neural networks, is of interest to him. * Upcoming webinars:* · Emanuele Bugliarello (Thursday, April 3, 2025) · André F. T. Martins (Thursday, May 8, 2025) · Mirella Lapata (Thursday, June 5, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea 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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