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[CfP] 2nd Call for Contributions to WISDOMS : Ethics, Values, and Knowledge Graphs
by wisdoms.publicity＠gmail.com 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for potential crossposting] Only two weeks to the final deadline to WISDOMS 2024! The workshop focusing on the integration of data semantics, ontologies, moral values, and their societal impact About the Workshop: The growing influence of AI in our daily lives has transformed both the digital landscape and the way we generate, extract and represent information. The surge in using Large Language Models (LLMs) not only in academia and industry but among the public, has made it increasingly important to address the alignment of AI tools to moral and cultural human values. Despite ongoing governmental work on developing ethical guidelines and practical requirements for AI, for academic and industrial applications there is a particular importance to ensure that the research respective practical methods follow ethical practices and that the outcomes do not conflict with moral values. As hybridizing knowledge structures and semantic data with generative AI has a high impact potential for the development of increasingly more complex and intelligent systems, it becomes of the utmost important that such innovation adheres to the EU’s objective of realizing AI applications that are dependable, robust, explicable, ethically guided, and therefore trustworthy. The first edition of WISDOMS, the Workshop on Integrating the Semantics of Data, Ontologies, Moral and cultural values and their Societal impact, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and those curious enough to explore the convergence of ethics, socio-behavioral norms, moral and cultural values, with hybrid neuro-symbolic knowledge structures and generative AI. Join us in discussing the socio-ethical boundaries of AI innovation! Important Dates: • Submission Deadline: March 7, 2024 • Author Notification: April 4, 2024 • Final Version Due: April 18, 2024 • Workshop Dates: May 26/27, 2024 List of Topics: WISDOMS invite paper contributions related (but not restricted to) the following areas: • Ethical dilemmas in value knowledge representation • Development of value-centric vocabularies and ontologies • Moral reasoning in AI • Societal impact of (non-)ethical AI • Value-driven system design and explainability • Value-sensitive autonomous agents • Neuro-symbolic and hybrid semantic web tools for moral reasoning Type of Contributions: We welcome diverse contributions including research papers, case studies, and theoretical explorations that align with the workshop's themes. We accept four types of contributes: • Full Papers (10-12 pages excluding references) • Short Papers (5-8 pages excluding references) • Position Papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) • Extended Abstract of recently published papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) Submissions must be sent via Easychair and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format (template available on workshop website). For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted papers needs to register at ESWC 2024 and participate on-site at WISDOMS. Location: WISDOMS is co-located with ESWC 2024 held on the beautiful island city Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. This year, ESWC has the timely theme on Fabrics of Knowledge: Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI. Join us at WISDOMS to add a flair of ethics to the main conference! We look forward to your valuable contributions to a fruitful and thought-provoking discussion on these critical issues. Best regards, Stefano De Giorgis Luana Bulla Maria Hedblom Luc Steels

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Extended Deadline [March 04, 2024]: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Silvie Cinkova 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

From: "Silvie Cinkova" <cinkova(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz> To: "ufal-l" <ufal-l(a)mff.cuni.cz> Sent: Friday, 23 February, 2024 11:05:47 Subject: Extended Deadline [March 04, 2024]: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) Apologies for cross-posting *2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024* Date: 20-25 May, 2024 Paper submissions due March 04th, 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) Main website: [ https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ | https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ ] LREC-COLING 2024 website: [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ ] Submission website: [ https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ | https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ ] —————————————————————————————————— *Workshop overview and objectives* This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists (e.g. automating analysis and validation processes), field linguists (facilitating data collection and analysis processes), and computational linguists (developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages). The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages - evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) *Submissions* We are seeking submissions in the following categories: - Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references - Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references - Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references - Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet ( [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ ] ), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website ( [ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ | https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ ] ). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account ( [ https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ | https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ ] ). For further information on this initiative, please refer to [ https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ | https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ ] . *Important Dates* March 04, 2024: Paper submissions due [extended deadline] March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 25, 2024: Workshop *Workshop Chairs* Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, Fairfax VA (USA) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinková, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) *Programme Committee (to be updated)* Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) Aryaman Arora, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Chihiro Taguchi, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) John E. Ortega, New York University (USA) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Luke D. Gessler, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) Maitrey Mehta, University of Utah, Utah (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Mayank Jobanputra, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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CFP: LCS Digital Humanities Symposium. ‘Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’, University of Leeds, 5 June 2024
by Simone Rebora 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, I forward a CfP of a conference in Leeds. They also offer small bursaries for young researchers.... Kind regards, Simone === LCS Digital Humanities Symposium. ‘Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’ School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds 5 June 2024 Call for papers This symposium is open to all scholars of languages, literature, film, media, game and narrative studies who are using digital methods in their research (or are studying digital media) and are interested in the themes of reception, reader and audience response, and cultural consumption more broadly. *Theme*: *C**onsuming fiction in a convergence culture* *When: 5 June 2024, University of Leeds* With this one-day Symposium we invite an interdisciplinary discussion on the reception and consumption of narrative fiction across different media and artforms. The event is open to all scholars of languages, literature, film, media, game and narrative studies who are using the frame of digital humanities and want to share their works and exchange ideas. At the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies of the University of Leeds we have been working on a project entitled ‘Audience engagement with Elena Ferrante’s storyworld. Consuming fiction in a convergence culture’. Using digital humanities methods, we are collecting and analysing social media data and metadata in order to investigate how ordinary readers and TV audiences respond to and engage with the storyworld created by Italian writer Elena Ferrante. By hosting the Symposium at Leeds, we hope to take stock of what is happening in the field, exchange ideas and methodologies arising from our individual case studies and promote discussions, networks and even collaboration among scholars who, in different disciplines, are working on cultural consumption and digital humanities. The day will involve keynote talks, research project presentations (10-15 minutes), and a round-table discussion. Please submit your paper proposal (around 200-250 words) as one Word file, containing your name, affiliation and a short biography to Olivia Santovetti (O.Santovetti(a)leeds.ac.uk) Laura Lucia Rossi (L.L.Rossi(a)leeds.ac.uk) and Alessio Baldini ( A.Baldini(a)leeds.ac.uk) by *Wednesday 27 March 2024*. Small travel bursaries are available to assist participant with travel costs. Priority will be given to PhD student and Early Career Researchers who have no access to funds to cover their travel expenses. If you are interested in applying for a bursary, please include a statement in your proposal explaining the relevance of your proposal to the theme of the Symposium.

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[CfP] ISWC 2024 Call for Industry Track Papers: deadline **July 11th, 2024**
by Sebastián Ferrada 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Apologies. The previous email had an incorrect deadline date. 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024 http://iswc2024.semanticweb.org Call for Industry Track Papers: https://bit.ly/iswc2024industry Submissions due: July 11th, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing, interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way. == Call for Industry Track Papers == The Industry Track at ISWC 2024 welcomes 2-page extended abstracts about the application of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in various industrial sectors, aiming to showcase the state of their adoption and the latest trends. It provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share the key learnings and new research challenges posed by real-world implementations. The Industry Track welcomes your case studies of success stories, as well as insightful discussions on challenges hindering the widespread adoption of knowledge graph and semantic technologies in industrial applications and settings. Reports detailing the application and deployment experiences of recent research advancements to industry-relevant problems are also encouraged. Track Chairs: Vanessa Lopez Garcia - IBM Research Europe, Ireland Francesco Osborne - The Open University, United Kingdom Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024industry For any question or request, please contact the Industry Track Chairs atiswc2024-industry(a)easychair.org.

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[CfP] ISWC 2024 Call for Industry Track Papers: deadline June 11th, 2024
by Sebastián Ferrada 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024 http://iswc2024.semanticweb.org Call for Industry Track Papers: https://bit.ly/iswc2024industry Submissions due: June 11th, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing, interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way. == Call for Industry Track Papers == The Industry Track at ISWC 2024 welcomes 2-page extended abstracts about the application of knowledge graphs and semantic technologies in various industrial sectors, aiming to showcase the state of their adoption and the latest trends. It provides an opportunity for industry adopters to highlight and share the key learnings and new research challenges posed by real-world implementations. The Industry Track welcomes your case studies of success stories, as well as insightful discussions on challenges hindering the widespread adoption of knowledge graph and semantic technologies in industrial applications and settings. Reports detailing the application and deployment experiences of recent research advancements to industry-relevant problems are also encouraged. Track Chairs: Vanessa Lopez Garcia - IBM Research Europe, Ireland Francesco Osborne - The Open University, United Kingdom Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024industry For any question or request, please contact the Industry Track Chairs at iswc2024-industry(a)easychair.org.

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[CfP] ISWC 2024 First Call for Research, Resources & In-Use Tracks: abstracts due Apr. 10th, 2024
by Sebastián Ferrada 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

(Tutorial proposals will be accepted in a separate call later in the year.) 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024 https://iswc2024.semanticweb.org/ Call for Research Track Papers: http://bit.ly/iswc2024Research Call for Resources Track Papers: https://bit.ly/iswc2024Resources Call for In-Use Track Papers: https://bit.ly/iswc2024InUse Abstracts due: April 10th, 2024 Full papers due: April 17th, 2024 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing, interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way. ======================================================= == Call for Research Papers == The research track of ISWC 2024 solicits novel and significant research contributions addressing theoretical, analytical and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web. We welcome work describing original and replicable research showing evidence of significant contribution to the Semantic Web. Track Chairs: Gianluca Demartini - University of Queensland, Australia Katja Hose - TU Wien, Austria Contact: iswc2024-research(a)easychair.org Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024Research ======================================================= == Call for Resources Papers == The ISWC 2024 Resources Track welcomes descriptions of resources that leverage knowledge representation based on Semantic Web standards or other graph data models to improve the acquisition, processing, and sharing of data on the web. Resources include, but are not restricted to: datasets, knowledge graphs, ontologies/vocabularies, ontology design patterns, evaluation benchmarks or methods, software tools/services, APIs and software frameworks, workflows, crowdsourcing task designs, protocols, methodologies, and metrics, that have contributed or may contribute to the generation of novel scientific work and applications in the semantic web. Track chairs: Maribel Acosta - Technical University of Munich, Germany Matteo Palmonari - University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Contact: iswc2024-resource(a)easychair.org Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024Resources ======================================================= == Call for In-Use Papers == The In-Use track seeks submissions describing applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies (including, but not limited to, technologies based on the Semantic Web standards). Importantly, submitted papers should provide convincing evidence of the use of the proposed application or tool by the target user group, preferably outside the group that conducted the development and, more broadly, outside the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph research communities. Track chairs: Gong Cheng - Nanjing University, China Hala Skaf-Molli - Nantes University, France Contact: iswc2024-in-use(a)easychair.org Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024InUse ======================================================= Follow us: X (Twitter): @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13612370 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf

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CfP - HHAI 2024 [Extended Deadline] - The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
by Grootjen, Jesse 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email * Call for Participation: HHAI2024 – The third International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence June 10-14, 2024, Malmö, Sweden Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium In this message, we shortened each call to their essentials – the full text of each call is available on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ The HHAI 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place as part of the 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence in June 2024, Malmö, Sweden. This forum will provide early as well as middle/late-stage PhD students in the field of Hybrid Intelligence focusing on the study of Artificial intelligence systems that cooperate synergistically, proactively and purposefully with humans, amplifying instead of replacing human intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium will take place in person at the HHAI 2024 conference. Important Dates All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: February 12th, 2024 - Reviews Released: March 18th, 2024 - Camera-ready Papers Due: April 18th, 2024 - Doctoral Consortium: June 11th, 2024 Proposals should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hhai2024 Location HHAI 2024 will be an in-person, single-track conference, held in Malmö, Sweden on June 10-14, 2024. More information on the venue as well as travel information can be found on the website: https://hhai-conference.org/2024/ Contact information Conference chairs: Frank Dignum (Umeå University, SE), Fabian Lorig (Malmö University, SE), Jason Tucker (Malmö University, SE), and Adam Dahlgren Lindström (Umeå University, SE). Doctoral Consortium chairs: Passant El.Agroudy (DFKI, DE), Michiel van der Meer (Leiden University, NL) and Harko Verhagen (Stockholm University, SE) For questions, you can reach the doctoral consortium chairs at dc(a)hhai-conference.org<mailto:[email protected]> Kind regards, Julian Rasch & Jesse Grootjen Publicity and Social Media Chairs HHAI 2024 https://www.hhai-conference.org/

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[CfP] ISWC 2024 Reminder of Workshop and Challenge Proposal Calls: due Feb. 22nd, 2024
by Sebastián Ferrada 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., November 11-15, 2024 http://bit.ly/iswc2024 Call for Workshops: https://bit.ly/iswc2024workshops Call for Challenges: https://bit.ly/iswc2024challenges Proposals due: February 22nd, 2024 (in 10 days) Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2024 ISWC is the premier venue for presenting state of the art research and innovative systems related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting a large number of high quality submissions every year and participants from both academia and industry. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for representing, accessing, interpreting, and using information on the Web in a more effective way. == Call for Workshops == The role of the ISWC workshops is to provide a setting for focused, intensive scientific exchange among researchers and practitioners interested in specific topics related to the general theme of the conference. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas, for the discussion of novel aspects of established research topics, and for the exchange with related research communities. We invite you to submit a proposal for a workshop on a research topic of interest to ISWC attendees. (Please note that a separate Call for Tutorials will follow later in the year.) Track Chairs: Irene Celino - Cefriel, Italy Raghava Mutharaju - IIIT-Delhi, India Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024workshops For any question or request, please contact the Workshop Chairs at iswc2024-workshop-proposal(a)easychair.org. == Call for Challenges== Creating competition is a great way to advance the state of the art in a given domain. ISWC 2024 will run multiple challenges,proposed by the community, to systematically evaluate and compare solutions for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. We invite you to propose an ISWC 2024 Challenge, in which you define an open competition on a problem of your choice within the Semantic Web domain. Track chairs: Agnieszka Ławrynowicz - Poznań University of Technology, Poland Giuseppe Pirrò - University of Calabria, Italy Details: https://bit.ly/iswc2024challenges ======================================================= Follow us: Twitter/X: @iswc_conf #iswc_conf ( https://twitter.com/iswc_conf ) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ISWConf/ Mastodon Social: https://mastodon.social/@iswc_conf

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The European Summer University in Digital Humanities Culture & Technology 15-26 July 2024
by ALEXANDRA COTOC 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, We are happy to inform you that the European Summer University in Digital Humanities Culture & Technology (ESU DH C&T) will take place between July 15th and July 26, 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The Summer University offers participants the possibility to gain practical knowledge of the application of computational methods to the digitalisation, description, analysis and production of humanities contents and artefacts, to discuss theoretical questions and to forge new perspectives on the study and preservation of languages, cultures and cultural memory and the translation between cultures. The Summer University targets an international audience: students in their final year, graduates, postgraduates, doctoral students, postdocs, teachers, librarians and technical assistants who are involved in the theoretical, experimental or practical application of computational methods in the various areas of the Humanities, in libraries and archives, or wish to do so. It also addresses engineers and computer scientists who accept the challenge represented by the Arts and Humanities, who wish to obtain an insight into the application of, and work with, computational methods in the Humanities. The workshop lineup is ready, and you can check the ESUDH 2024 website for information regarding the Summer University and workshops offered: https://esu-ct.conference.ubbcluj.ro/ The application phase for ESUDH 2024 starts on March 5th! Alexandra Cotoc, on behalf of the Organising Board<https://esu-ct.conference.ubbcluj.ro/team/> Alexandra Cotoc, PhD Senior Lecturer Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Letters<https://lett.ubbcluj.ro/>, Babeș-Bolyai University<https://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/> Str. Horea, 31 400202, Cluj-Napoca, Romania https://linktr.ee/alexandracotoc ESUDH Culture & Technology https://esu-ct.conference.ubbcluj.ro/team/ [cid:6a63b888-0680-4e1b-ac1e-03f65635162b][cid:038e2221-968e-438b-9295-a6cd1c5b9cea][cid:385a2de4-f611-4db1-9f66-7a29f903ed37] DISCLAIMER Prezentul mesaj și orice documente atașate pot conține informații confidențiale sau sensibile care aparțin Universității Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca. Conținutul mesajului nu poate fi dezvăluit sau utilizat de către altcineva decât destinatarul, persoană fizică sau juridică. Dacă ați primit acest mesaj dintr-o eroare, vă rugăm să ne anunțati imediat, ca răspuns la mesajul de față, și să ștergeți apoi din sistemul dvs. mesajul fără a-l copia sau deschide. Prin prezenta vi se notifică faptul că orice dezvaluire, copiere, distribuire sau inițierea/omiterea unor acțiuni pe baza prezentelor informații sunt strict interzise și atrag răspunderea civilă și/sau penală (art. 302 Noul Cod Penal). UBB nu este răspunzătoare pentru modificările care pot fi aduse prezentului mesaj și nici pentru întârzierile care pot surveni în recepționarea acestuia. De asemenea, nu putem garanta integritatea mesajului și nici că acesta este lipsit de viruși, interceptări sau interferențe de orice natură. ================= The contents of this email message and any attachments may contain confidential and/or privileged information belonging to Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. This information is intended solely for the addressee, natural or legal person, and is legally protected from disclosure and may not be used by anyone other than the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. You are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments as well as taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and entails civil and/or criminal liability (under Art. 302 of the New Criminal Code). UBB accepts no liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free, as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. UBBCLUJ <https://www.ubbcluj.ro/ro/politici/>

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Talk "Computational Literary Studies" University Bielefeld: MARK FINLAYSON
by Kababgi, Daniel 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce a talk by Dr. Mark Finlayson (Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS) at Florida International University (FIU)) about Computational Approaches to Understanding Narrative in our colloquium "Computational Literary Studies" at University of Bielefeld on 30th of Janurary, 18:00 c.t. (GMT+1). The talk will be held online (with hybrid attendance) via Zoom. Link to the Zoom-Meeting: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/j/67554437983?pwd=VHNOUzNWMEZYeUkxUDJkZ015T… Meeting-ID: 675 5443 7983 Passwort: 135077 Abstract: Different discourse types present their own special challenges across the spectrum of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, for example, models that are trained or tuned for specific discourse types (e.g., wall street journal articles), to techniques that make certain assumptions about the texts in question (e.g., that everything described takes places “in the real world”). The narrative discourse type presents numerous interesting challenges for existing techniques, and also suggests novel NLP tasks specifically relevant to narrative. I present a selection of recent progress in the FIU Cognition, Narrative, and Culture (Cognac) Laboratory on NLP as applied to narrative. First, a new approach to timeline extraction that significantly improve our ability to extract, organize, and characterize timelines of events. Second, significantly improved animacy and character detection, where the goal is to determine whether a referent is animate and is acting as a “character”. We see that this approach requires some narratological sophistication to be successful. Third, new improvements in sub-event and event relationship detection on narrative texts that take advantage of certain important features of narrative discourse. Fourth, inference from text of narrative structures that were described by Vladimir Propp. I illustrate various applications of this work, focusing in particular on efforts to detect and model disinformation in the online space. Bio: Dr. Mark A. Finlayson is Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences (KFSCIS) at Florida International University (FIU). His research intersects artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and cognitive science. He directs the FIU SCIS Cognition, Narrative, and Culture (Cognac) Laboratory whose members focus on advancing the science of narrative, including: understanding the relationship between cognition, narrative, and culture; developing new methods and techniques for investigating questions related to language and narrative; and endowing machines with the ability to understand and use narratives for a variety of applications. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in computer science in 2012 under the supervision of Patrick H. Winston. He also holds the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT (2001) and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1998). Dr. Finlayson served as a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for 2½ years before coming to FIU, and served as the KSCIS Interim Associate Director between Fall 2020 and Spring 2022. Dr. Finlayson is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2018), an IBM Faculty Award (2019), and a DARPA Young Faculty Award (2021). He has also served as the Edison Fellow for AI at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 2019 until the present. Dr. Finlayson received FIU’s university-wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2019), a university-wide Top Scholar Award for Teaching and Mentoring (2018), and departmental awards for Excellence in Service (2016), Teaching (2018), Fundamental Research (2019), and Mentoring (2021). His work has been funded by NSF, NIH, ONR, DARPA, DHS, and IBM. Best regards, Berenike Herrmann & Daniel Kababgi

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