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Call for Participation: shared task on on binary gender prediction
by Marina Litvak 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Binary Gender Prediction From Long Texts Competition on Classification of authors' binary gender from their writing style Competition site: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/binary-gender-prediction-from-long-text… Timeline - February 20, 2023: Competitions are published on the website and opened to participants. - February 20, 2023: Registration for the competition. In addition to the registration on Kaggle, also fill out the registration form <https://forms.gle/LhYuGcjnYSBj5YgY6>. - February 20, 2023: Training and validation datasets are available for registered participants. - April 13, 2023: Test dataset available. - April 20, 2023,23:59 UTC: Delivery of results with a short description of the method. This competition is organized in conjunction with the 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) <https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23>, which will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on July 27. The ability to accurately determine the binary gender of an author based on their writing style opens up a wealth of possibilities in a variety of fields. In historical document analysis, for example, researchers can gain deeper insights into the role and representation of women in different societies. In forensic investigations, this information can be used to focus the investigation on a smaller and more targeted group, thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the investigation. By participating in this competition, researchers will have the chance to contribute to this growing field and make a meaningful impact on society. Whether you're a seasoned NLP professional or just starting out, this competition presents a unique opportunity to challenge yourself and take your skills to the next level. So don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to make your mark in the world of IR. Organizers: - Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal - Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal - Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria - Vladimir Yonkin - vladiyo(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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CFP: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23)
by Marina Litvak 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Call for Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Workshop website: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23 July 27, 2023. Taipei, Taiwan. Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2023, AoE Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23 To bring the research community's attention to the limitations of current models at capturing the hidden author characteristics from texts, we organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of implicit author information extraction from text. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: Research papers: up to 8 pages. Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the implicit author characterization task. Full papers should introduce existing approaches and describe the methodology and the experiments conducted in detail. Negative result papers highlighting tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome are also welcomed. Shared task papers up to 5 pages. The submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23>. All submissions must be in English and formatted according to the one-column CEUR-ART style with no page numbers. Templates in Word or LaTeX can be found in the following zip folder at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. There is also an Overleaf page <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…> for LaTeX users. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of implicit author information extraction from text, including but not limited to the following: - Query understanding - Personalized information search and retrieval - Demographics (gender, age, location, etc.) prediction and analysis - Profiling protagonists - Multi-modal, multi-genre, and multilingual author analysis - Detecting implicit expressions of sentiment, emotion, opinion, and bias - Transfer learning for implicit author characterization - Implicit author profiling annotation schema - Evaluation of implicit author profiling - Differentiation between AI-generated content and human-generated content and bot profiling - Author profiling in low-resource languages and under-studied domains - Exploration of the relations between self-reported or binary gender identity and implicit personality traits - Mental disorders and risk prediction - Author identification and verification Organizing Committee: - Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal - Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal - Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speakers: - Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Prof. Dr. Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany IACT’23 proceedings will be published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they do not conflict with previous publication rights. Contact: - Dr. Marina Litvak: litvak.marina(a)gmail.com - Dr. Irina Rabaev: irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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SIGDIAL 2023 Call for Papers (submission deadline May 15)
by Svetlana Stoyanchev 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

The 24th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) and the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG) will be held jointly in Prague on September 11-15, 2023. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 23 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: * Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models. * Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications. Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue. State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence. Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue. Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue. * Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora. * Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations(i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions. * Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology. Submissions The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. * Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Demo descriptions should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files. Multiple Submissions SIGDIAL 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Overlap with the SIGDIAL workshop submissions is permitted for non-archived workshop proceedings. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org. Blind Review Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr> and also downloadable directly <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> (Latex and Word) Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Deadline SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. Regular submission Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 15, 2023 (23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website <https://2023.sigdial.org/>. Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/> Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2023 is June 19, 2023. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2023. Mentoring Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Best Paper Awards In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SIGDIAL 2023 Program Committee Svetlana Stoyanchev and Shafiq Rayhan Joty Conference Website: https://2023.sigdial.org/

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Error analysis survey results
by Emiel van Miltenburg 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, A while ago we sent out a survey asking about your experiences with and opinions about error analysis. We are happy to announce that our paper based on this survey has been published in NEJLT: https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/4529 We hope that our paper will help foster a discussion about the publication culture in NLG, and in NLP more generally. We would also like to thank you again for filling in our survey. I consider myself very lucky to be part of this community. Best wishes, also on behalf of my co-authors, Emiel van Miltenburg

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CFP: WebNLG Challenge 2023 on low-resource languages (Breton, Maltese, Welsh and Irish) and on Russian
by Claire Gardent 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

============================================================== WebNLG Challenge 2023: Call for Participation Special focus on multilingual NLG for under-resourced languages https://webnlg-challenge/challenge_2023/ =============================================================== We are delighted to announce a new edition of the WebNLG challenge, which will take place in 2023. WebNLG 2023 will focus on multilingual generation for under-resourced languages: Maltese, Irish, Breton and Welsh. In addition, WebNLG 2023 will once again include Russian, which was first featured in WebNLG 2020. * MOTIVATION With the development of large-scale pretrained models, research in automatic text generation has acquired new impetus. Yet, the current state-of-the-art is dominated by a handful of languages, for which training data is relatively easy to acquire. At the same time, the field has recently witnessed some encouraging developments which focus on generation for under-resourced and under-represented languages. This trend is paralleled by a growing interest in multilingual models and applications in NLP more broadly. The WebNLG 2023 Challenge is being organised in response to these trends and specifically addresses generation in few-shot and/or zero-shot settings for four under-resourced languages. * About WebNLG The WebNLG Challenge consists in mapping data, in the form of RDF triples, to natural language text. The input is a set of RDF triples sourced from DBPedia for example: (John_E_Blaha birthDate 1942_08_26) (John_E_Blaha birthPlace San_Antonio) (John_E_Blaha occupation Fighter_pilot) where the corresponding output text might be: John E Blaha, born in San Antonio on 1942-08-26, worked as a fighter pilot The WebNLG challenge was launched in 2017. A second edition, in 2020, extended the task to Russian, in addition to English. * WebNLG 2023 The new edition of WebNLG focuses on four under-resourced languages which are severely under-represented in research on text generation, namely Maltese, Irish, Breton and Welsh. In addition, WebNLG 2023 will again include Russian, a language featured in WebNLG 2020. For WebNLG 2023, we are soliciting submissions encompassing a variety of approaches to automatic text generation, from neural architectures to rule-based systems. We especially encourage submissions addressing generation in few-shot or zero-shot settings. * DATA Development and test data is now available for all 5 languages, namely Breton, Maltese, Irish and Welsh (the target languages for WebNLG 2023), as well as Russian. Participants can download the development data; the test data will be reserved for the final evaluation. Data for each language was obtained by sourcing high-quality, professional translations of the original English texts in the WebNLG 2020 dev and test sets. Training data is also available for the original WebNLG English data and, as per WebNLG 2020, for Russian. In addition, we provide ‘noisy’ training data for the target languages (Maltese, Breton, Welsh and Irish), obtained via machine translation of the texts in the English WebNLG 2020 train split. * EVALUATION As in previous editions of WebNLG, submitted results will be evaluated using both automatic and human evaluation methods. * INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS Data and instructions for the task are available from the WebNLG repo: https://github.com/WebNLG/2023-Challenge Teams who submit systems for evaluation at WebNLG 2023 will subsequently be invited to contribute a short paper describing their approach and results. The task as a whole, as well as individual submissions, will be presented at a special session in an event to be announced later. General information about the WebNLG challenges can be found on the following URL: https://webnlg-challenge/challenge_2023/ * TIMELINE February 2023: First call for participation. Development data and noisy training data available. 8 June 2023: Release of test data 15 June 2023: Deadline for submission of system outputs. 15 August 2023: Deadline for submission of short papers describing systems. The final presentation of results will be held during a workshop. Current plans are to hold this in September 2023. * ORGANISATION: WebNLG 2023 is being organised under the auspices of LT-Bridge, supported by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation (WIDESPREAD) 2018-2020 and the ANR funded xNLG Chair on multi-lingual, multi-source NLG. Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France Albert Gatt, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and University of Malta Claudia Borg, University of Malta Enrico Aquilina, University of Malta Anya Belz, Dublin City University, Ireland John Judge, Dublin City University, Ireland Liam Cripwell, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France William Soto-Martinez, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Contact: webnlg-challenge(a)inria.fr To unsubscribe from the SIGGEN list, click the following link: [ https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SIGGEN&A=1 | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SIGGEN&A=1 ]

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Deadline extension - MultiGED-2023 shared task
by Elena Volodina 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

UPDATE: Following requests, we extend the deadline for system submissions for the MultiGED-2023 shared task by one week according to the following: 27 February, 2023 06 March, 2023 - test data released 03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output) 10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced 03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions. Call for participation -- Shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection (MultiGED-2023) on Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish Official website for the shared task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 The Computational SLA<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/compsla> working group invites you to participate in the first shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection, MultiGED-2023, which includes five languages: Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish. The aim of this shared task is to detect tokens in need of correction across five different languages, labeling them as either correct ("c") or incorrect ("i"), i.e. performing binary classification at the token level. You can work on one of the provided languages or any combination of languages. More details about the task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 The shared task is part of the NLP4CALL workshop<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…>, which will take place on 22 May 2023, co-located with the NoDaLiDa conference <https://www.nodalida2023.fo/> to be held in the Faroe Islands. Accepted papers with systems descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings and double-published through the ACL anthology. Timeline: * 23 January, 2023 - first call for participation. Training and validation data released, CodaLab opens for team registrations. * 14 February, 2023 - second call/reminder * 03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output) * 10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced * 03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions. We encourage you to share models, code, fact sheets, extra data, etc. with the community through github or other repositories on paper publication. * 21 April, 2023 - paper reviews sent to the authors * 01 May, 2023 - camera-ready deadline * 22 May, 2023 - presentations of the systems at NLP4CALL workshop To register for/express interest in the shared task, please fill in this form <https://forms.gle/DgwTNmTCQhsmrbxq6>. To ask questions and to get important information and updates about the shared task, please join the MultiGED-2023 Google Group <https://groups.google.com/g/multiged-2023>. Official system evaluation will be carried out on CodaLab <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9784>. Organizers: * Elena Volodina<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Chris Bryant<https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/cjb255>, University of Cambridge, UK * Andrew Caines<https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~apc38/>, University of Cambridge, UK * Orphee De Clercq<https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/orphee.declercq>, Ghent University, Belgium * Jennifer-Carmen Frey<https://www.eurac.edu/en/people/jennifer-carmen-frey>, EURAC Research, Italy * Elizaveta Ershova, JetBrains, Cyprus * Alexandr Rosen<http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~rosen/>, Charles University, Czech Republic * Olga Vinogradova, Independent researcher, Israel Please, feel free to forward this call to those who might be interested. ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Two positions at Bergen (linguistics, psycholinguistics)
by Koenraad de Smedt 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

At the University of Bergen, two positions are open: Postdoc in Psycholinguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240671/postdoktor…) PhD in Linguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240695/stipendiat…) The announcements are in Norwegian and English. Best regards, Prof. Koenraad De Smedt

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death announcement - prof. Karel Pala
by Miloš Jakubíček 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Karel Pala, professor emeritus of our faculty. He passed away on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2023, at the age of 83. Karel was an early corpus-enthusiast who pioneered corpus linguistics in Czechia. His friendly attitude inspired many of us to pursue our careers in this field. This will always be remembered with deep gratitude. Official announcement: https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/DeathAnnouncementKarelPala Best regards, Milos Jakubicek Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno, Czechia

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24 February: free corpus online event and tool launch
by Brezina, Vaclav 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear all, We've been really encouraged by the overwhelming positive response to the #LancsBox X launch event, which will take place on Friday 24 February 2.00-3.30pm UK time. We will be showcasing a brand new version of #LancsBox X, a powerful tool for the analysis and visualisation of very large corpora: millions and billions of words. The event is organised jointly by The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (https://cass.lancs.ac.uk), Lancaster University and CLARIN-UK (https://www.clarin.ac.uk). The event will take place online via MS Teams. Attendance in person is also possible. Free registration is still open: https://forms.office.com/e/LBLqyZiqX9 Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [8ED5AC37]@vaclavbrezina [B213DA5D]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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[PhD] position at CIS, University of Munich
by hangyav＠cis.lmu.de 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

We are looking for a PhD student interested in transfer learning in natural language processing. The candidate will work on the "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project which focuses on supporting various hate speech detection scenarios in low-resource setups, such as low-resource languages or domains. The main goal is to leverage already existing resources in order to build high quality models for the target scenarios. Offer We offer employment as a full-time doctoral researcher for three years. Starting date is as soon as possible. The salary amounts to TV-L E13 (roughly 52,000 EUR gross income per year). The position is open until filled. The "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project is funded by the German Science Foundation. It is led by Dr. Viktor Hangya in the research group of Prof. Alexander M. Fraser at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), University of Munich (LMU). The group has multiple activities with other groups at CIS, such as the groups led by Prof. Barbara Plank and Prof. Hinrich Schuetze, as well as with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) providing ample opportunities to collaborate with other researchers. Other than the research related to the doctoral program, the candidate is expected to assist in teaching duties, such as giving presentations at student seminars or proposing and leading bachelor and master theses. Qualifications Ideal PhD candidates have a master in computer science, computational linguistics or a related discipline, a strong interest in natural language processing and machine learning, excellent mathematical and programming skills, are team players and fluent in English. Application Please send CV, transcript or records, a copy of your Master's thesis and a motivation letter stating your research interests, as well as two reference letters to hangyav[at]cis.lmu.de, subject: "PhD application". Send all documents as a single PDF, give the PDF a name that includes your name. Diversity LMU is strongly committed to diversity and especially welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Location CIS is located in the city center of Munich near the English Garden, one of the world's largest urban public parks. Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is a vibrant international city with many cultural and recreational offerings, including the nearby Alps.

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