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Fully-funded PhD studentship in NLP and bioinformatics at QMUL, London, UK (UK students only)
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

A fully funded PhD Studentship is available to work with Dr Anna Lobley, Associate Director, Biological Data Science at Exscientia, Dr Arkaitz Zubiaga, Senior Lecturer at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University London, and Dr Claudia Cabrera, Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University London. Awards will cover UK tuition fees, stipend at UKRI rate (currently £19,668), and a consumable allowance for 4 years (pro-rata for part-time applicants). *Project Description:* Methods for automated target and biomarker identification typically involve ranking genes and proteins according to indication relevance criteria. A typical process then involves traversing scientific literature for supporting evidence. However, many age-related western world diseases bear the hallmarks of complex heterogeneous conditions that vary along a spectrum of disease severity. They frequently involve multiple systems and pathways. Hence selection pools comprise many hundreds to thousands of genes. Selecting the best targets and stratification biomarkers from a large candidate pool presents a significant challenge in drug discovery. Current approaches are at best semi-automated or rely on expert opinion. This means it is difficult to avoid bias in such decision making tasks. Decision theory is one branch of Artificial Intelligence that can be applied to help resolve these complexities. Automated reasoning and argumentation theory are two appropriate branches of natural language processing well suited to the task. The aim of this project is to fully automate target and biomarker selections using a combination of NLP-based and recommendation methods. The end goal is to generate unbiased decisions from a complex network of information relationships. We are seeking a highly motivated students who are passionate about contributing to biological knowledge through the application of NLP to large text corpora and biomolecular data sets. The deadline for applications is May 1st 2023 and projects start in September 2023. For more details, see https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/target-biomarker-selection-using-syst… For more on eligibility and how to apply, see https://www.qmul.ac.uk/deri/ukri-aidd-doctoral-training-programme/apply/

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CfP: Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) at EAMT2023
by Miquel Esplà 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* 1st Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) Tampere, Finland, on June 15, 2023 *https://macocu.eu/workshop* <https://macocu.eu/workshop> First Call for Papers The 1st edition of the Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) will be held in Tampere, Finland, on June 15, 2023, co-located with EAMT 2023. The workshop aims to be as open as possible: we invite everybody that works on topics related to machine translation in an open and community-driven way. We welcome submissions either as a full paper or just an abstract. The full papers have to present previously unpublished work, but abstract submission is open for anybody who wishes to discuss their relevant work. This work can be previously published, work in progress or simply a proposal for a new project. Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to: - development of machine translation toolkits, - platforms and services; - collection and curation of datasets that can be used to build machine translation systems; - automatic post-editing software and data; - machine translation quality estimation software and data; - machine translation evaluation; - integration of machine translation in computer-aided translation; - use of monolingual resources to improve machine translation; and - software, data and models licensing issues. Submission information The workshop accepts submission in two different modalities: - Abstracts: authors can submit abstracts up to 1 page that summarize the contribution of a work/paper. If accepted, authors will have the option of having their abstracts included in the proceedings of the workshop. - Papers: authors can submit papers between 4 and 10 pages (including appendices but not references). If accepted, in addition to presenting their work to the audience, authors will be requested to submit a camera-ready version of paper that will be included in the proceedings of the workshop. Submissions should be formatted according to the EAMT 2023 guidelines <https://events.tuni.fi/eamt23/second-call-for-papers/> and submitted in PDF through EasyChair page (link to be announced). Important dates - Workshop paper/abstracts due: 14th April 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 28th April 2023 - Camera-ready papers/extended abstracts due: 12th May 2023 - Workshop date: 15th June 2023 -- Dr. Miquel Esplà-Gomis Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant Carretera de Sant Vicent del Raspeig s/n 03690 Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Alacant (Spain) Tel: +34 965903400 ext. 2424

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Two open positions in multimodal emotion analysis
by Roman Klinger 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

(apologies for crossposting) The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for a 1-year postdoc and a 3-year postdoc position in the DFG-funded project "User’s Choice of Images and Text to Express Emotions in Twitter and Reddit" (ITEM). The project is co-lead by Carina Silberer (for the multimodal language & vision aspect of the project) and Roman Klinger (for the aspect of emotion and emotion stimulus analysis). You can find more information in the detailed job description at https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-item.pdf If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at * roman.klinger(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de * carina.silberer(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de The application deadline is May 10th, 2023. We intend to start the project in late summer. Best regards, Roman (Klinger)

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One open position (PhD student or Postdoc) in argument mining and emotion analysis
by Roman Klinger 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

(apologies for crossposting) The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for a 3-year position that can be filled by a Phd student (with some prior experience) or a postdoctoral researcher. The successful candidate will work in the project "The Interplay of Emotions and Convincingness in Argument Mining for NLP" (EMCONA) in which we analyse the effect that emotions play on the convincingness of emotions. The project is a collaboration between the University of Stuttgart (Roman Klinger) and the University of Bielefeld (Steffen Eger). The PhD student who is advised by Roman Klinger in Stuttgart will focus on appraisal-theory-based analysis of emotions in argumentative texts. The PhD student in Steffen Eger's group will work on generating bias-free arguments. You can find more information at https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-emcona.pdf If you have questions, please contact Roman Klinger via email at roman.klinger(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de The application deadline is May 10th, 2023. We intend to start the project in late summer. Best regards, Roman (Klinger)

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Final Call for Special Track Proposals
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

*** Final Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: April 18th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 24th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. The best papers accepted in the Special Tracks will be eligible for consideration to be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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PhDs / Postdocs in ML, NLP and Computer Vision at U Amsterdam
by Ivan Titov 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

The University of Amsterdam invites applications for postdoctoral and Ph.D. positions on the intersection of ML, NLP, and Computer Vision. The research is funded by NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) grant of Ivan Titov ( http://ivan-titov.org/). The postdocs and PhD students will be employed by the University of Amsterdam and will be members of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation <https://www.illc.uva.nl/> and the Faculty of Science. The collaboration is envisaged with researchers at the University of Amsterdam (e.g., Efstratios Gavves, and Wilker Aziz), as well as at the University of Edinburgh (e.g., Edoardo Ponti, Hakan Bilen, Sidharth N., and Kenny Smith). The research will focus primarily on two directions (or their intersections): 1) *learning from language* in grounded settings: exploiting knowledge embedded in language and language models to help solve decision-making applications and produce generalizable and interpretable models for these tasks 2) *emergent communication* and collaboration: developing agents which learn to communicate with humans, explain their predictions and decision strategies, and also improve with human feedback. *Application deadline: May 1, 2023, 17:00 (Netherlands)* For informal enquiries please contact: Ivan Titov (titov(a)uva.nl) Please find more details by following the links: Ph.D. positions: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-in-Machine-Learning-with-NLP-and-Compu… Postdoc positions: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Machine-Learnin…

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Open Invitation for Self-Nomination to the Program Committee of BESC 2023
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

*** Open Invitation for Self-Nomination to the Program Committee of BESC 2023 *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 is recruiting new PC members. If you are interested to join the PC and assist in the review process, please fill the form available here: https://forms.gle/X2cYY2jfmVBMHcNi9 Please note the submission deadline and bear in mind that your assistance in the review process will be required between mid-July and mid-September. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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AT4SSL2023 - Second Call For Papers
by Fred Blain 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL2023 @EAMT2023) Second Call For Papers https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/at4ssl2023/ ****** Apologies for cross -posting ****** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach (Bragg et al., 2019)<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308561.3353774>. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. We are delighted to confirm that two interpreters for English<>International Sign (IS) will be present during the event, to make it as inclusive as possible to anyone who wishes to participate. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, large veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 3-April-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 * Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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Two complementary courses on Deep Learning and NLP
by HiTZ Zentroa 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email **** *Natural Language Processing acceleration: foundations and applications* *Two complementary courses on Deep Learning and NLP* July, 2023, fully online (including tutorized labs) _http://ixa.eus/NLPacceleration_ Deep Learning neural network models have been successfully applied to natural language processing, and are now changing radically how we interact with machines (Siri, Alexa, machine translation or GPT4). Large Language Models are at the core of these developments, and are being used to crack "languages" in other disciplines, ranging from programming languages (Copilot) to proteins (AlphaFold) and gene sequences (GenSLM). You can take either one or both courses: _Deep Learning for NLP_ <https://ixa.eus/dl4nlp> (July 10th to 14th, 20 hours, 5 afternoons. 12th edition): This course introduces in detail the machinery that makes Deep Learning work for NLP, including the latest transformers and large language models like GPT, BERT and T5. It also covers the use of prompts for zero-shot and few-shot learning, instruction learning and human feedback. In the winter multimodal text-image models like DALL-E are also covered. The course combines theoretical and practical hands-on classes. Attendants will be able to understand the internal working of the models, and implement them in Tensorflow in the tutorized labs. The summer version includes higher level labs using Keras, while the winter version includes the programming of the inner workings. The aim is to allow attendees to acquire the ability to understand, modify and apply current and future Deep Learning models to NLP and other areas. _Introduction to LT Applications_ <https://ixa.eus/iltapp> (July 17th to 21st, 20 hours, 5 afternoons. 6th edition): This course will introduce the most commonly used techniques to build applications based on Language Technology. Thus, the attendees will learn how to apply techniques such as document classification, sequence labeling, as well as vector-based word representations (embeddings) and pretrained language models for core applications such as Opinion Mining, Named Entity Recognition, Fake News Detection or Question Answering. The course will have a practical focus, learning to use readily available LT toolkits (Spacy, Flair, etc.). The aim is to allow attendees to acquire the required autonomy to solve practical problems by applying and developing Language Technology applications. *Registration* has to be done for each course, see respective websites. Note that you only need to pay the insurance for one of the courses.

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2nd CFP-GITT-2023 at EAMT 2023
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

***2nd CALL FOR PAPERS*** First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2023 15 June 2023, Tampere, Finland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2023 @GITT2023 **Important Dates ** (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Paper Submission deadline: 14 April, 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 5 May, 2023 Camera Ready Copy due: 12 May, 2023 Workshop: 15 June, 2023 **Aim and scope** The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the first 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. **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 three types of submissions: - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (including 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. - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including reference) We include a parallel submission policy for papers accepted in other venues in 2022. Research communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. Submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2023 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=gitt2023 **Activities** During the workshop, there will be a guided discussion starting from examples of gender bias in MT output collected via the DeBiasByUs website. Attendees are invited to contribute their own examples beforehand via DeBiasByUs (https://debiasbyus.ugent.be/share/) More information about the project and the activity can be found on the WS website. **Workshop organizers** Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Janiça Hackenbuchner, Cologne University of Applied Sciences

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