[Apologies for cross-posting]
We are starting the process to hire a NLP/AI Researcher in the Blasi Group at Pompeu Fabra University. The position will focus on applications of computational tools from these fields to interdisciplinary challenges at the intersection of linguistic diversity, human cognition, and foundation models.
See here for more details about the position https://dub.sh/blasi_nlp_posting
If interested, send a message with the header AI POSITION, your CV and a very brief motivational statement at damian.blasi(a)upf.edu
Thanks!
Pablo Contreras Kallens
Postdoctoral Researcher
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
*** Last Call for Workshop Proposals ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/
Objectives
ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To
that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide
additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops
aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes
workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and
security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure
software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately
defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics:
• They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas
at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication.
• They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make
progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance
software and systems.
• They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers
and industry practitioners.
Recurring Workshops
Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of
participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop
proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning
the workshop to ISSRE in 2026.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the
software development lifecycle, and are not limited to:
• Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software
reliability
• Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting
software reliability
• Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures
• Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting)
• Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems
• Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large
Language Models
• Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks
• Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates
• Automated debugging and program repair
• Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay
with safety/security
• Reliability of software services
• Reliability of open source software
• Reliability in networks softwarization
• Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
• Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
• Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems
• Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive,
green and sustainable, mobile systems)
• Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things,
Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization,
Blockchain)
• Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability
• Societal aspects of software reliability
Proposal Submissions
Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee
and address the following questions:
• Workshop length: Half day or one full day
• Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups
• Outline of themes and goals of the workshop
• How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.)
• Desired/estimated number of participants
• Organizing committee members and their past experience
Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for
workshop proposals. The submission link is:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=issre2026 .
Proposal Evaluation
Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The
criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE
community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team.
Logistics
The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to
attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026
• Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026
• Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026
(NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for
information about deadlines)
• Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026
• Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD
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
er, ihm / he, his
Anrede / Form of address: Herr / Mr. or Du / Stefan
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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…>
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to the workshop “Ethics in Clinical
AI Applications (ETHICAIA)”, to be held in conjunction with IJCAI/ECAI 2026.
🌐 Website: https://ethicaia.loria.fr/
📍 Location: Bremen, Germany
📅 Workshop dates: August 15–17, 2026 (TBC)
📝 Submission deadline: May 15, 2026
*About the workshop*
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in clinical
contexts—supporting diagnosis, risk prediction, treatment planning, and
patient interaction. However, these applications raise critical ethical
challenges related to fairness, bias, accountability, transparency,
privacy, and patient safety.
ETHICAIA provides a dedicated forum to explore these issues as an
integral part of AI research, not as an afterthought. We particularly
emphasize the connection between ethical concerns and the robustness and
real-world reliability of clinical AI systems, including challenges such
as data shifts, uncertainty, and deployment conditions.
We welcome contributions from across AI fields, including machine
learning, NLP, computer vision, multimodal systems, and foundation
models in healthcare.
*Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):*
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Fairness, bias, and representation in clinical AI
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Ethical challenges in clinical decision support
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Robustness and resilience under real-world conditions
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Multimodal and foundation models in healthcare
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Explainability, accountability, and contestability
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Human–AI interaction and shared decision-making
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Privacy, consent, and secondary use of clinical data
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Synthetic data: benefits and ethical risks
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Evaluation beyond accuracy (metrics, benchmarks, validation)
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Regulatory and governance challenges
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Real-world case studies and failure analyses
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Ethical-by-design methodologies for clinical AI
Best regards
Roland Roller <https://www.linkedin.com/in/roland-roller-a9017877/>(DFKI
<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23dfki&origin=HASH_T…>),Karën
Fort <https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenfort/>(Universite de Lorraine
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/universit-de-lorraine/> /
LORIA),Massimo Esposito
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/massimo-esposito-39134183/>(ICAR-CNR
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/icar-cnr/>),Paolo Soda
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolo-soda-9622197a/>(Università Campus
Bio-Medico di Roma
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/universita-campus-bio-medico/>/Umeå
universitet (Umeå University)
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/kamla-bhubneswer-b.-ed.-college/>)
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Karën Fort
Prof. des Univ. en informatique / Professor in Computer Science
Université de Lorraine / Loria
Resp. du M2 TAL et resp. locale du Master Erasmus Mundus LCT
Présidente du comité d'éthique du cluster IA ENACT
Porteuse du projet ANR InExtenso (évaluation des biais dans les LLM)
https://members.loria.fr/kfort
LORIA : B116 / IDMC : 215
Quelle que soit l'heure de réception de ce message, il n'appelle pas de réponse de votre part en dehors des heures de travail.
*** 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