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Postdoc/PhD position in XAI for medical NLP
by Damien Sileo 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

We offer a two-year research position for a postdoctoral or predoctoral scientist on the topic of explainable AI in the context of natural language processing of clinical reports at the Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven.. The position is financed by the CHIST-ERA project ANTIDOTE (ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine). The project focuses on deep learning models for text classification in the medical domain, where the need for high quality explanations of clinical decisions is critical. The project proposes an integrated approach for the understanding of textual medical data and the generation of a textual explanation to justify a medical diagnosis made by a neural network, so that clinicians can judge its validity. The partners of the ANTIDOTE project provide annotated argumentative structures of natural language explanations of medical decisions (human explanations). We will also leverage larger-scale data (without annotated explanation) in order to improve explanation generation. One way would be to use feature importance techniques (Integrated gradients, LIME or preferably search-based methods) applied to models trained to perform medical decisions, to guide explanation generation. KU Leuven is declared the most innovative university in Europe by Reuters four years in a row and is ranked 42th on the Times Higher Education World University Ranking (2022). Offer * We offer a research position for 2 years starting September 1 or the latest October 1, 2022. * We offer a competitive wage and yearly budget to attend conferences. * We offer the opportunity for personal development beyond research including the supervision of master and PhD students and the possibility to contribute to teaching. * Access to our deep learning cluster which contains the latest GPU hardware. If interested,please apply the latest by July 31, 2022. Excellent candidates will be invited for an online interview. The position will be closed once a suitable candidate is found. Responsibilities * Perform fundamental research in natural language processing, machine learning and explainable AI resulting in publications in highly-ranked venues. * Collaborate with the other European partners of the ANTIDOTE project. * Carry out some (light) teaching duties if interested, which may include lectures, the organization of student seminars, and the supervision of bachelor and master theses. Profile * You have (or are near completion of) a master or PhD in Computer Science . * Given that we have to fill in the research position very soon, we will only consider applicants who can work at KU Leuven, Belgium without visa. * You have a demonstrated expertise in machine learning, deep neural networks and natural language processing. Expertise in structured prediction and/or structured generation is a plus. * You have an outstanding track record of publications in relevant international peer-reviewed A ranked conferences and in journals with high impact factor in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing. * You are good at collaborating with others. * You work proactively and independently and have good communication skills. * You have an excellent knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written as well as of another European language (e.g., French, Spanish or Italian). * You are highly motivated, ambitious and result-oriented. For more information please contact Dr Damien Sileo mail: damien.sileo(a)kuleuven.be or Prof. Dr. Marie-Francine Moens, mail: sien.moens(a)kuleuven.be with [XAI22] in your e-mail subject.

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CFP Reproducibility and Explainability in Digital Humanities
by Karina van Dalen-Oskam 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

The International Journal of Digital Humanities<https://www.springer.com/journal/42803> (IJDH) invites articles for a special issue on "Reproducibility and Explainability in Digital Humanities", planned for summer 2023. Fabian Offert (UCSB<https://www.gss.ucsb.edu/people/fabian-offert>), Karina Van Dalen-Oskam (UvA<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/a/k.h.vandalen-oskam/k.h.van-dalen-oskam.ht…>), and Thorsten Ries (UTA<https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/germanic/faculty/tr24969>) are editing this special issue. Please find the complete Call for Papers here<https://www.springer.com/journal/42803/updates/23255012> and consider submitting an abstract (about 200 words) by Sept 01 via our online form<https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5gXXVFzFrcti58y>. Links: CfP: https://www.springer.com/journal/42803/updates/23255012 Submit abstracts: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5gXXVFzFrcti58y Best wishes, Karina van Dalen-Oskam

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Second Call for Papers: CODI 2022 - 3rd workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Chloé Braud 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

** apologies for cross-postings ** CODI, 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse Gyeongju, Republic of Korea ** Submission deadline: July 25, 2022 ** * Important information: The CODI workshop will be a hybrid workshop following COLING’s format. The workshop will take place on October 16-17, 2022. * Aims and scope The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. At this juncture, we have organized two Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 and at EMNLP 2021 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. The 3rd CODI workshop is planned as a 1 1/2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2021 the shared task on coreference resolution (encompassing entity and abstract coreference and bridging anaphora) in dialogue will be held again in 2022 as the CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, next to the CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. Topics of interest We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * discourse structure * discourse connectives * discourse relations * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena * discourse parsing * cross-lingual discourse processing * cross-domain discourse processing * anaphora and coreference resolution * event coreference * argument mining * coherence modeling * discourse and semantics * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. * evaluation methodology for discourse processing Submissions We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be notified at submission. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission Please submit your workshop papers at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/ Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. Important dates * 2022-07-25: CODI papers due * 2022-08-03: Reviewing period * 2022-08-24: Reviews due * 2022-09-01: Notification of acceptance * 2022-09-12: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI workshopAll deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers * Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown UniversityTo contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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Job Posting: Junior/Assistant Professor for Responsible AI, University of Mannheim
by Simone Paolo Ponzetto 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Dear all, we currently have an opening for a junior faculty position at our university that might be interesting for those of you working on topics at the intersection of fairness, ethics and AI/NLP, and related topics. The full announcement can be found here [1] (English version: [2]). Application deadline is July 15. Best - Simone [1] https://bit.ly/3uIe06O [2] https://bit.ly/3nZ6ssG -- Simone Paolo Ponzetto Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany http://dws.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/ponzetto Tel: +49 621 181 2647

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[meetings] Call for Participation: Workshop on Working with Trouble and Failures in Conversation between Humans and Robots (WTF 2022)
by Marta Romeo 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Dear all, * Apologies for cross-posting * Speech interfaces are customary in many types of robots and robotic applications. Despite the progress in speech recognition and many other areas of natural language processing in recent years, failures of speech interfaces in robotic scenarios are numerous and commonplace. In contrast to the shared experience of failure of speech interfaces in robotics, the literature is positively skewed towards the success and good performance of these. The documentation of failure speech interfaces on the other hand is exceedingly rare and a systematic study of failure and its causes is non-existent. The WTF workshop aims at bringing together a multidisciplinary group of researchers from the fields of robotics, human-Robot Interaction (HRI), natural language processing, conversation analysis and pragmatics and industrial partners to address this gap. The workshop aims to provide a platform to *discuss the multitude of failures of speech interfaces* openly and, if possible, systematically, in the hope of identifying the most fruitful *directions for overcoming these failures* in future systems. The workshop will focus on *human-robot joint action scenarios* involving *multimodal coordination* between humans and robots as these are the norm in scenarios where robotic speech interfaces are deployed. *Format*: The workshop will take place in *two parts*, with the *first part being online*, and the *second part being on site at the University of Hertfordshire. *The two parts are complementary, and the work of the on-site part will build on the outcome from the online part. Both parts will consist of a combination of keynote talks by experts in the field followed by bash talks and group discussions on the different types of failures. *Workshop website*: https://sites.google.com/view/wtfworkshop2022/ *IMPORTANT: *While the online part was held on the 16th and 17th of June, we are now reopening the *call for participation for the on site part *of the 5th of September. Interested participants who did not take part in the online session are welcome to apply and join us in the discussion! *Dates:* - *Application**: *22nd July 2022 (Notification of Acceptance on the 29th) - *Workshop - On-site part: *5th September 2022, full day (9:30am to 5pm) *Applications for participation should be submitted before or on the **22* *nd* *of Ju**ly* via the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/wtfworkshop2022/dates-and-submission We have limited funding available to cover travel and accomodation costs for travel within the UK. See the workshop website for details. *Outcomes*: Apart from hopefully lively discussions and exchanges about the most pressing failures in such speech interfaces, the intended outputs of this workshop are twofold: - A position paper summarizing the kinds of failures commonly observed by researchers working on (or with) robotic speech interfaces, and the most promising future directions to overcome these, - The identification of a prototypical application scenario embodying most of the identified challenges that may act as a future benchmark. *Organizers*: - Frank Förster, University of Hertfordshire - Christian Dondrup, Heriot-Watt University - Joel Fischer, University of Nottingham - Marta Romeo, University of Manchester - Patrick Holthaus, University of Hertfordshire - Luke Wood, University of Hertfordshire *Contact*: For all inquiries or early expressions of interest, contact Frank Foerster ( f.foerster(a)herts.ac.uk)

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Computational Linguistics Fall School in Berlin, 19-23 September 2022
by Rainer Osswald 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

GENERAL INFORMATION The 11th Computational Linguistics Fall School of the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS) will take place in Berlin from 19th to 23th of September 2022: https://dgfs-clschool22.github.io The event is organized by the Institute for German Language and Linguistics (IdSL) at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Leibniz Center of General Linguistics (ZAS). The DGfs-CL fall school is a biennial event for students who wish to broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural language processing in fields not traditionally taught in standard degree programs. COURSE PROGRAM This year the following two courses, taught in English, will be offered: - Heriberto Cuayahuitl (Lincoln University): Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Generation - Carina Silberer (Stuttgart University): Visually Grounded Lexical Semantics There will also be an evening lecture by Tibor Kiss (Linguistics Data Science Lab) entitled: From Architect to Nothingness: what happened to Linguistics in Computational Linguistics? Additionally, there will be an industry exchange forum. REGISTRATION https://dgfs-clschool21.github.io/registration For more information about participation fees, course details, scholarship options, venue and accommodation, please visit the website of the fall school. Contact: Sophia Höbel (hoebelleibniz-zas.de)

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SemDial 2022: deadline extension for short papers
by Eleni Gregoromichelaki 12 Jul '22

12 Jul '22

Apologies for cross-posting. ** Short papers SemDial 2022 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 ** --------------------------------------------------------------- SemDial 2022 - DubDial THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE https://semdial2022.github.io/ 22-24 August 2022 Dublin // Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- DubDial will be the 26th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date. *WEBSITE:* https://semdial2022.github.io/ This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. *SCOPE:* We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - common ground / mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair - applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena - enactive approaches to interaction - dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective *INVITED SPEAKERS:* * Mark H. Bickhard * Yvette Graham * Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi *DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions* We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022* Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call# Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Short paper submissions due: 22 July 2022 Notification: 25 July 2022 Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022 *REGISTRATION* Registration is now open: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration# DubDial - SemDial 2022<https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration#> SemDial 2022 (LondonLogue) - The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. TUD, August 22-24th, 2022 semdial2022.github.io *RELATED EVENTS* The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin) Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. Contact: organisers.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg)) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/ Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33

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Deadline of July 15th approaching: Postdoc in NLP at UCSC
by Marilyn Walker 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues, Will you post this to your network, your PhD students and other potentially interested parties? Letters are not initially required with the application. Thanks Lyn ------- The Natural Language Processing Program (nlp.ucsc.edu) in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the Natural Language Processing Postdoctoral Researcher, under the direction of Professor Marilyn Walker. We seek outstanding applicants with research expertise in all areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The NLP Postdoctoral Researcher will be expected to contribute to the research and teaching profile of the NLP group. We also expect the successful candidate to support graduate students and other Postdoctoral Scholars as a peer Feel free to contact me at nlp(a)ucsc.edu with any questions. Applications are open now, full consideration will be given to applications submitted by July 15th, 2022 for a start date of September 1st. For details, and to apply, go here: https://recr <https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330>uit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330 <https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330> -- Professor Marilyn Walker Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics Program Director, NLP MS Program, https://nlp.ucsc.edu/ Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Baskin School of Engineering University of California Santa Cruz users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw -- Professor Marilyn Walker Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics Program Director, NLP MS Program, https://nlp.ucsc.edu/ Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Baskin School of Engineering University of California Santa Cruz users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw

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[Jobs] Postdoc Positions (UCD Dublin, Ireland): NLP for Legal & Regulatory Text Analysis Mailing Lists/SIGIR
by David Lillis 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

CeADAR (Ireland's Centre for Applied AI: https://ceadar.ie) at the UCD School of Computer Science (https://ucd.ie/cs/) is seeking to appoint postdoctoral researchers at any level of experience until *September 2023* to work on the TRANSPIRE project in *Dublin, Ireland*. You will perform novel research on Machine Learning, AI and Natural Language Processing for legal and regulatory texts. The key research focus of the project relates to analysis, classification and knowledge extraction for these texts in a transparent way. As such, a core priority will be a body of research on explainable and/or interpretable models for legal text analysis. TRANSPIRE is funded under the Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) and is a collaboration with two industry partners: Corlytics ( https://corlytics.com) and Version 1 (https://version1.com). As such, a core feature of the project is to work closely with domain experts who will both inform the research and contribute domain expertise towards training the models. Candidates should have research experience in one or more of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, Text Analytics (including the use of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and/or Explainable AI for textual data). For application details and salary scales please see: - *Research Fellow* (≥4 years postdoctoral research experience): click here <https://my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecruit/erq_search_version_4.start_search_with…> (or visit https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ and search for job reference 014723) - *Postdoctoral Researcher* (<4 years postdoctoral research experience) click here <https://my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecruit/erq_search_version_4.start_search_with…> (or visit https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ and search for job reference 014722) Please note that due to institutional rules, if you wish to be considered for both positions you will need to apply for both separately. The closing date for applications is *Friday July 15th 2022*. For informal enquiries about these roles, please contact david.lillis(a)ucd.ie Feel free to forward this to talented researchers in your network who may be interested.

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Program 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Elodie Winckel 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the 29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (July 29-30, 2022), as well as the Workshop on Computational Linguistics on East Asian Languages (July 31, 2022). The conference and the workshop will be held online. The program is available on the conference website, where you will also find registration information: https://hpsg2022.github.io/program.html Please note that the times are given in Japan Standard Time (in order to transcribe them into your local time: https://savvytime.com/converter/jst). In order to allow the widest possible exchange between participants spread all over the world, the regular presentations will be pre-recorded and only the discussion sessions will take place in real time (on Zoom). The invited talks will take place in real time. The videos of the regular presentations will be available on a Discord server. When you register, you will receive a message that contains an invitation link to the server, as well as the Zoom session URLs. Registration to the conference is free of charge. We look forward to meeting you all for exciting discussions. Elodie Winckel (Program Committee Chair, hpsg22(a)easychair.org).

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