Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student or postdoc in autumn 2026? We have openings on a new project titled “A Mechanistic Framework for Mitigating the Susceptibility of LLMs to Learning False Information”<https://dff.dk/en/about-the-fund/news-and-press/all-news/news-uk/2026/maj/2…> funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark<https://dff.dk/en/>, led by Isabelle Augenstein<https://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/> and Pepa Atanasova<https://apepa.github.io/>. The project goal’s will be to develop a novel theoretical frameworks for LLM security, new mechanistic interpretability methods, and new evaluation protocols, developed through research at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and Explainable AI. In addition to the PIs, the postdoc and PhD student, the project also offers the opportunity to apply as an academic collaborator with NVIDIA as part of an existing relationship.
Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here<https://www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/>.
PhD position
The PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on researching mechanistic interpretability methods to curb the effects of false information attacks on LLMs at different stages of the model lifecycle.
The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP.
The PhD student will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=160571> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Postdoc position
The postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to characterise the spectrum of false information used by LLMs at different stages of their life cycle, in order to develop mitigation methods and prevent false information attacks on LLMs.
The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience on Natural Language Processing, LLM Security, and/or Explainable AI.
The postdoc will work with Isabelle Augenstein and Pepa Atanasova, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply here<https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=160569> by 31 May 2026 to be considered. The start date is September 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
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Call for Papers: HeMAI 2026
Multimodal Interaction with Generative AI Health Applications
Workshop at ICMI 2026, Naples, Italy, 9 October 2026 (in person)
https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/
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Generative AI is changing how people interact with health technology. Large language models, multimodal foundation models, and conversational agents make it possible to combine text, speech, vision, and physiological signals in ways that weren't practical a few years ago, and they raise difficult questions about usability, safety, explainability, trust, and evaluation when the stakes involve someone's health.
HeMAI 2026 brings HCI, AI, and health researchers together to work through those questions. We welcome contributions on multimodal interaction techniques for health systems, conversational and embodied agents in healthcare, integration of text/speech/vision/biosignals, explainability and transparency, human-AI collaboration, safety and trust, ethical and regulatory issues, evaluation methodologies, and real-world deployments.
Submission types:
- Full research papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references)
- Short / work-in-progress / position / demo papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references)
Submissions follow ICMI 2026 author guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/
Papers rejected from the main ICMI track are welcome if they fit the scope.
Important dates (AoE):
- Paper submission: 6 July 2026
- Notification: 29 July 2026
- Camera-ready: 1 August 2026
- Workshop: 9 October 2026
Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceedings to ICMI 2026.
Organizers:
- Stefan Hillmann (TU Berlin)
- Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin & DFKI Berlin)
- Catherine Pelachaud (CNRS--ISIR, Sorbonne University)
- Lisa Raithel (TU Berlin & BIFOLD & DFKI Berlin & Charité--IKIM)
- Roland Roller (DFKI Berlin)
Workshop website: https://qulab.github.io/HeMAI2026/
We are looking forward to your submissions!
On behalf of the organizing team
Stefan Hillmann
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Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hillmann
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter / Senior Researcher
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Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät IV / Faculty 4
Elektrotechnik und Informatik / Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Quality and Usability Lab
Sekr. MAR 6-7, Marchstr. 23, 10587 Berlin, GERMANY
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Forschungsschwerpunkte / Research Areas: Usable Dialog Systems, User Experience, AI for Conversational Systems
Web: www.tu.berlin/qu
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-9834
LinkeIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-hillmann-81841044
We’re hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC Advanced Grant InterText at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
The UKP Lab at Technische Universität Darmstadt<https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/index.en.jsp>, led by Prof. Iryna Gurevych<https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/head_ukp/index.en.jsp> is one of the world's leading NLP labs.
If you work on LLMs that reason across complex documents, not just within them, this role is for you. You'll develop an original research program within the ERC Advanced Grant InterText, with a focus on:
🔹Multi-document reasoning and long-context LLMs
🔹AI for Science: scientific evidence synthesis, claim verification
🔹Automated fact-checking and multimodal misinformation detection, incl. verification of AI slop
🔹Human-centric and agentic approaches as a complementary focus: LLM agents, tool use, multi-agent collaboration
Bottom-up proposals that connect to the InterText vision are very welcome.
You bring:
* PhD (completed or near completion) in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related discipline
* a strong publication record at top-tier venues,
* and the drive to lead an independent research line.
Deadline: 31 May 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so don't wait. Apply: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment
Full job ad with all details on the UKP Lab page: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2026_intertext…<https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2026_intertext…>
*** Call for Participation ***
The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)
July 13-16, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/
(*** Standard Registration Fee Deadline: June 30, 2026 ***)
The 2026 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier
venue, where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances
at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
Ideal IUI submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence
and discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies,
techniques and systems.
This year we had a record number of submissions, so we have a record number of
accepted papers (114), a record number of posters and demos (53) and we hope for a
record number of participants.
Furthermore, we have 8 workshops and 6 tutorials.
Finally, the technical program will feature two keynotes, by Antonio Kruger on the role of
HCI in trusted A.I. and Pattie Maes on designing A.I. interaction for human flourishing.
The detailed program of IUI 2026 can be found on the conference website:
https://iui.acm.org/2026/program/ .
The standard fee registration deadline is on June 30th and the registration page is:
https://iui.acm.org/2026/registration/
We are looking forward to meeting everybody in Limassol.
Organisation
General Chairs
• Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel
• Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Local Organising Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
• Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA
First Call for Papers
13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) Workshop @EMNLP2026, Budapest, Hungary, 24-29 Oct, 2026
https://wacky-workshop.github.io/
The World Wide Web has evolved from a resource for building linguistic corpora into the central data infrastructure powering modern natural language processing and Large Language Models (LLMs). As web-scale data increasingly shapes AI systems’ knowledge and capabilities, understanding its quality, representativeness, and ethical implications has become critical.
At the same time, the “more is better” paradigm is being challenged by issues such as machine-generated content, data toxicity, limited metadata, and the under-representation of many languages and domains. These challenges call for a shift toward Data-Centric AI, focusing on the curation, analysis, and responsible use of web-derived data.
The 13th Web-as-Corpus (WaC-13) workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for research addressing the full lifecycle of web data. We invite submissions on methods, resources, and applications related to web corpora, with special emphasis on multilingual data and less-resourced languages.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (e.g., data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification)
* Use of web data in empirical linguistic research
* Analysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insights
* Ethical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data
By bringing together researchers from NLP, linguistics, and the social sciences, WaC aims to advance best practices for one of the field’s most influential data sources.
Important dates:
Direct paper submission deadline: 7 August, 2026
Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: 1 September, 2026
Notification of acceptance: 5 September, 2026
Camera-ready paper due: 20 September, 2026
Conference dates: 24-29 Oct, 2026
Submissions:
Submissions will be possible through ARR commitment and through openreview.net (more details to follow on https://wacky-workshop.github.io/).
Workshop Organizers:
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Yves Scherrer, University of Oslo, Norway
Laurie Burchell, Common Crawl
Veronika Laippala, University of Turku, Finland
Pedro Ortiz Saurez, Common Crawl
Jen English, Common Crawl
Vuk Dinić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Dear colleagues in Corpora list,
good afternoon
Today, May 5, *World Portuguese Language Day* is being celebrated.
We are joining in this celebration by expanding our family of AI agents Evaristo.ai <https://evaristo.ai/>.
Nurtured within the *PORTULAN <https://portulanclarin.net/>* node of CLARIN Research Infrastructure, and developed in partnership with the *Academy of Sciences of Lisbon* and its grand reference dictionary <https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt/>, we are launching the new chatbot *Evaristo.ai – Linguagem clara* <https://evaristo.ai/linguagem-clara/>, which specialises in rewriting texts into plain language in accordance with the international standard ISO 24495-1.
This chatbot joins other chatbots we launched in recent months:
Evaristo.ai - Generalist <https://evaristo.ai/>
A generalist chatbot, powered by the knowledge in Gervásio 70B <https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN>, the largest open-source LLM specialising in Portuguese
(June 2025)
Evaristo.ai - Public services <https://evaristo.ai/servicos-publicos/>
A chatbot specialising in Portuguese public administration services, based on the gov.pt <https://www.gov.pt/> official website
(November 2025)
We invite you to try it out. Your feedback is most welcome.
Kind regards,
António Branco
Summer Schools: CDHSummer2026 (4th Corpus and Digital Humanities Summer School 2026) (China)
Host Institution: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Coordinating Institution: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau; School of Humanities and Social Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University; College of Information Management, Nanjing Agricultural University
Dates: 25-Jul-2026 - 04-Aug-2026
Location: Nanjing, China
Minimum Education Level: Linguistic/History Students/teachers at University
Special Qualifications: Linguistic/History Students/teachers at University with little knowledge of computer science.
APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
SUBMISSION WINDOW: May 5 - May 12, 2026 (Beijing Time)
The offical language will be Chinese.
Applicants are required to complete the official application form and submit their Curriculum Vitae (CV), research background, learning objectives, and academic recommendation letters.
The organizing committee will conduct a merit-based selection process. Admission results will be announced by June 1, 2026, via email. Admitted participants are required to sign a letter of commitment. Once successfully enrolled, withdrawing from the program or switching tracks is not permitted without valid, exceptional reasons.
PARTICIPANT CAPACITY AND GRADUATION CRITERIA
- CAPACITY: Each track is strictly limited to 40 on-site and 40 online participants. The total program capacity is 240 participants.
- GRADUATION ASSESSMENT: Each participant must complete an independent research project by the end of the program, such as a humanities database, a statistical analysis report, or a prototype LLM tool.
- CERTIFICATION: Participants who successfully pass the final assessment will receive an official Certificate of Completion. Outstanding projects will be awarded an Excellence Certificate.
Focus: Driven by the rapid expansion of large-scale data ecosystems and Large Language Models (LLMs), research across the humanities and social sciences is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional disciplines, including linguistics, literature, history, and philology, are increasingly adopting computational technologies to develop innovative, data-driven methodologies.
Central to this methodological shift is the development of reliable data infrastructure built upon well-annotated corpora. Furthermore, adapting and deploying artificial intelligence — particularly fine-tuned LLMs — for humanistic inquiry has become an essential skill for the next generation of scholars. To advance interdisciplinary research, empower scholars with both humanistic depth and computational expertise, and foster global academic exchange, Nanjing Normal University is proud to launch this intensive summer program in partnership with our esteemed co-hosts.
This program is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to undergraduates, postgraduates, and young researchers specializing in Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Chinese Language and Literature, History, Philology, and related disciplines. Scholars focusing on the intersection of the humanities with large-scale datasets and LLMs are particularly welcome.
Description:
SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND CURRICULUM
The curriculum is designed to provide a deep dive into four core modules: Digital Humanities Theory, Cutting-edge Technologies, Corpora Construction and Standards, and Quantitative Statistical Methods.
1. PARALLEL TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Applicants must choose exactly ONE of the three parallel tracks. Each track consists of eight systematic lectures and hands-on coding practices, supported by 4 dedicated teaching assistants.
- TRACK A: DATABASE PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP - Instructor: Prof. Bin Li (Nanjing Normal University, China). Oriented toward beginners with no prior programming experience. Utilizing MySQL and PHP as the core development platform, the workshop uses classical texts, such as the "Complete Tang Poems", to teach data structuring, SQL querying, and interactive website development.
- TRACK B: LINGUISTIC STATISTICAL METHODS WORKSHOP - Instructor: Prof. Wei Shen (Central China Normal University, China). Focusing on quantitative analysis for linguistic and textual corpora, this track covers foundational statistics using SPSS software. Topics include parametric and non-parametric tests, clustering, correlation, chi-square tests, and regression models.
- TRACK C: PYTHON LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP - Instructors: Prof. Dongbo Wang and Prof. Liu Liu (Nanjing Agricultural University, China). Designed for participants with foundational Python knowledge, this advanced track connects ancient texts with artificial intelligence. Using the ancient text LLM “Xunzi” as a case study, it covers prompt engineering, instruction fine-tuning, intelligent agent development, and LLM deployment in humanities contexts.
2. SUPPORTING ACADEMIC AND PRACTICAL EVENTS
- EXPERT LECTURE SERIES: 20 top-tier international and domestic scholars will deliver 20 premium academic lectures on cutting-edge algorithms and humanities research methodologies.
- THEMATIC ROUNDTABLE FORUMS: Specialized panels will host in-depth dialogues on "Opportunities and Challenges for Humanities in the LLM Era" and "The Future Trajectory of Linguistics and Digital Humanities".
- CULTURAL EXCURSION AND SEMINARS: Digital humanities field trips in the historical city of Nanjing, complemented by academic networking seminar sessions.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Registration: 05-May-2026 to 12-May-2026
Apply by Email: dhbase2026(a)126.com
Apply on the web: https://v.wjx.cn/vm/rwUUUJ7.aspx
Registration Instructions:
The lectures and courses will be given in Chinese. The courses are free of charge. All travel, accommodation and catering expenses shall be self-funded.
Dear colleagues,
In the context of the AWASES project (AI-Aware Pathways to Sustainable Semiconductor Process and Manufacturing Technologies), we are organizing a two-day workshop titled “AI-Driven Semiconductor Discovery”, taking place on May 21–22, 2026 in Hannover, Germany. More information is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/aisem/home
We would like to extend an invitation via our call for posters and welcome submissions from your groups, particularly on AI for science topics. The call for posters can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/aisem/call-for-posters
We welcome a wide range of contribution types, including original research, early-stage ideas, system demos, use cases, vision papers, and mature preprints. In the spirit of collaborative learning, we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers and welcome multiple contributions. Participation is open to all career stages, and we look forward to an engaging exchange at the workshop.
Please feel free to share this call within your networks. If you have any questions about the workshop or venue, I would be happy to provide further information.
Best regards,
Jennifer D'Souza
(on behalf of the AISem'26 organizing team)
[Apologies for cross-posting]
There is a vacancy for a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Norwegian Professional Language, at the University of Bergen, Norway (https://www4.uib.no/en/research/research-centres/centre-for-norwegian-profe…). We are seeking a highly motivated candidate for a 3-year postdoctoral researcher position focused on the development of resources and models, including post-training of large language models.
The position offers flexibility for the candidate to develop and shape their own research directions. The work will be in close collaboration with the work package on terminology and professional language in particular, and the centre as a whole.
The position is affiliated with the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen.
Check the full announcement and application details here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/300731/postdoctoral-fellow-i…
Closing date: June 1st, 2026
If you have any questions or would like additional information, feel free to contact me.
Kind regards,
Samia
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Samia Touileb
Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation
Fagspråksenteret: Centre for Norwegian Professional Language