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[rede.APPIA] EAIA2024 Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence (EAIA)

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The Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence – EAIA 2024
September 2-3, 2024
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
EAIA2024 Advanced School on Artificial Intelligence (EAIA)
https://eaia.epia2024.pt/
KEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
  • Paulo Dimas – Unbabel (Unbabel is the next-generation LangOps Platform, and all-in-one solution for your global translations)
  • Amparo Alonso-Betanzos – Full Professor in the area of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at CITIC-University of A Coruña (UDC)
Some of the LECTURES:
  • Abbas Abdolmaleki is a research scientist at DeepMind
  • Behrus Puladi is specialist at the Department for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen and chair of the Joint-Research Group “Digitaliziation in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery” of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Institute of Medical Informatics, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany.

IMPORTANT DATES

15 July 2024: Early Registration

ABOUT

EAIA 2024 is a Portuguese Advanced School on AI organized by Portuguese Association of Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).

EAIA 2024 will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in areas of Artificial Intelligence. 

EAIA is a central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge. 
Courses will consist of two 90-minute sessions, offered on the two days (Monday-Tuesday), to allow students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic. 
There will be two parallel sessions in which students choose the topic they want to assist.

TOPICS AND FORMAT

EAIA aims to cover all subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them.

* General Artificial AI

* Generative AI – Foundations and Applications
* Reinforcement Learning
* AI in Humanized Medicine (ML)
* Ethical and |Responsabile in AI
* Art and Creativity
* Intelligent Robotics
Each course will consist of two 90-minute lectures, offered daily
(Monday-Tuesday) before EPIA Conference.

While introductory courses will typically focus on one subarea of AI,
introductory and advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader
perspective on AI and should be of interest beyond one specific area.

Each course has a theoretical and a practical part.

—

Dalila Durães

“So the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about what everybody sees.”

 

 Arthur Schopenhauer (1851)

[rede.APPIA] 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ** IBERSPEECH 2024 (Aveiro, November 11-13, 2024)

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IberSPEECH’2024 will be held in Aveiro (Portugal), from 11 to 13 November 2024. The IberSPEECH event –the seventh of its kind using this name– brings together the XIII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the IX Iberian SLTech Workshop events.

Following with the tradition of previous editions, IberSPEECH’2024 will be a three-day event, planned to promote interaction and discussion. There will be a wide variety of activities: technical papers presentations, keynote lectures, presentation of projects, laboratories activities, recent PhD thesis, entrepreneurship & discussion panels, and awards to the best thesis and papers.

WE ARE ALREADY ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS.

Please go to https://iberspeech.tech/paper-submission


You can find all the information about the event at https://iberspeech.tech.

 

Important Dates


Regular Papers


Submission abstract deadline: July 12th, 2024
Submission full paper deadline: July 19th, 2024
Paper notifications sent: September 20th, 2024
Camera-ready paper due: September 29th, 2024

Special Sessions (including Projects, Demos, PhD Theses & Entrepreneurship)

Special Sessions proposals: end of April 2024

Contributions: October 7th, 2024
Full-Paper: October 14th, 2024

Albayzin Evaluations 2024

Release of training and development data: Done in June 2024

Registration deadline for the evaluation: End of August 2024

Release of evaluation data: September 2nd ,2024

Deadline for the submission of system outputs: October 18th, 2024

System results distributed to participants: October 31st, 2024

Official results presented publicly and published: November 12th, 2024

IberSPEECH 2024 Albayzin Evaluations special session in Aveiro: November 12th, 2024

 

Conference IBERSPEECH’2024

Conference Starts: Monday, November 11th, 2024
Conference Ends: Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

 

Topics


The topics of interest regarding processing Iberian languages include, but are not limited to:

1. Speech technology and applications

1. Spoken language generation and synthesis

2. Speech and speaker recognition

3. Speaker diarization

4. Speech enhancement

5. Speech processing and acoustic event detection

6. Spoken language understanding

7. Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems

8. Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech

9. Systems for speech translation

10. Applications for aged and handicapped persons

11. Applications for learning and education

12. Emotions recognition and synthesis

13. Language and dialect identification

14. Applications for learning and education

15. Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders

16. Speech technology and applications: other topics

2. Human speech production, perception, and communication

1. Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language

2. Phonetics, phonology, and morphology

3. Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon

4. Paralinguistic and non-linguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)

5. Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

3. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications

1. Natural language generation and understanding

2. Retrieval and categorization of natural language documents

3. Summarization mono and multi-document

4. Extraction and annotation of entities, relations, and properties

5. Creation and processing of ontologies and vocabularies

6. Machine learning for natural language processing

7. Shallow and deep semantic analysis: textual entailment, anaphora resolution, paraphrasing

8. Multi-lingual processing for information retrieval and extraction

9. Natural language processing for information retrieval and extraction

10. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications: other topics

4. Speech, Language and Multimodality

1. Multimodal Interaction

2. Sign Language

3. Handwriting recognition

4. Audiovisual language processing

5. Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

5. Resources, standardization, and evaluation

1. Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools

2. Spoken language evaluation and standardization

3. NLP resources, annotation, tools

4. NLP evaluation and standardization

5. Multimodal resources, annotation, and tools

6. Multimodal evaluation and standardization

7. Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

 

Paper Submission


Regular Papers must be written in English and submission will be online. Papers must be submitted in PDF following the Interspeech 2024 format (more information at https://interspeech2024.org/author-resources/ ). Papers can have a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references and acknowledgments. There is no minimum length requirement for papers of the special sessions project review and demos. Aligned with Interspeech adoption of “Double-blind review”, IberSPEECH submissions must be blind.

Upon acceptance, at least one author per paper will be required to register (full & early) and present the paper at the conference.


 

Committees

General Chairs

Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Carlos David Martínez Hinarejos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain


Technical Program Chair

Eduardo Lleida, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain


Technical Program Co-Chairs

Carmen Garcia Mateo, U Vigo, Spain

Eva Navas, University of the Basque Country, UPV- EHU, Spain

José Andrés González López, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Francesc Alías Pujol, La Salle — Universitat Ramon LLull, Spain

Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Luis Fernando D’Haro, UPM, Spain


Special Sessions Chairs

Dayana Ribas, University of Zaragoza, Spain


Evaluation Chairs

Eduardo Lleida Solano, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Alfonso Ortega Giménez, ViVoLab, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

Luis Javier Rodríguez Fuentes, GTTS, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

Javier Tejedor Noguerales, BIOLAB, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Spain

Doroteo Torre Toledano, AUDIAS, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid


Local Committee

Catarina Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Samuel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ana Rocha, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Nuno Almeida, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Bernardo Marques, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Mário Rodrigues, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Fábio Barros, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal (Webmaster)

Gabriel Silva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

 

 

 

[rede.APPIA] Prémio Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2023: Deadline 15 de julho de 2023

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Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2023
Prémio da Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligência Artificial 

A APPIA institui o Prémio para a Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2023, com a finalidade de distinguir trabalhos doutoramento de elevado mérito na área da Inteligência Artificial e que tenham sido obtidos numa instituição de ensino superior portuguesa durante o ano de 2023.

Em anexo segue o regulamento do prémio, sendo que as candidaturas devem ser efetuadas via preenchimento deste formulário até à data limite: 15 de julho de 2023.


O prémio tem um valor simbólico de 1000 euros, sendo que o candidato (ou seu representante) receberá o certificado do Prémio de Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2023, em Setembro de 2024, durante a realização da 23th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2024, https:// epia2024.pt)


Organização:
Goreti Marreiros, Instituto Politécnico do Porto
João Leite, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Goreti Marreiros

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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[rede.APPIA] Falecimento do Professor José Maia Neves

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Boa tarde,

É com profundo pesar que informamos o falecimento do Professor José Maia Neves, Professor Emérito da Universidade do Minho.

O Professor Maia Neves, um dos fundadores da APPIA, o seu sócio número 5, foi um pilar na comunidade académica e científica. A sua contribuição inestimável para o avanço da Inteligência Artificial em Portugal, assim como o seu compromisso com a educação e a formação de estudantes e investigadores, deixaram um legado duradouro que continuará a influenciar e inspirar muitos.

A comunidade académica e científica perde não só um professor e investigador de exceção, mas também um mentor e amigo dedicado. À família, amigos e colegas, endereçamos as nossas mais sinceras condolências neste momento de dor e perda.

Informamos que as cerimónias fúnebres, decorrerão manhã, dia 17 de junho, no Tanatório do Cemitério Monte de Arcos (Braga).entre as 14h e as 16h.

Que a memória do Professor José Maia Neves permaneça viva entre todos aqueles que tiveram o privilégio de o conhecer e trabalhar ao seu lado.

—A direção da APPIA

Goreti Marreiros

ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431
4249-015 Porto – PORTUGAL
tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159
mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: LUHME – Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era | Call for papers | DEADLINE EXTENSION

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Dear all, 
SECOND AND LAST DEADLINE EXTENSION
Given the high interest shown in the ECAI workshop LUHME – Language Understanding in the Human-Era, and further to several requests received by interested participants, we decided to extend the paper submission deadline. The new, extended and final submission deadline is 29 June 2024. 
PROCEEDINGS
We would like to remind you that the workshop proceedings will be published as part of the ACL Anthology. 
We look forward to receiving your submission. 
All best
Rui Sousa-Silva (on behalf of the workshop organisers)
* * * * *
Call for Papers: Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME)
 
The LUHME 2024 workshop Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of
the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/).
This Workshop is scheduled for 20 October 2024.
 
 
Workshop description
Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems by democratizing their use. These models have shown remarkable advancements in various applications such as conversational AI and machine translation, marking the undeniable advent of the human-machine era. However, despite their significant achievements, state-of-the-art systems still exhibit shortcomings in language understanding, raising questions about their true comprehension of human languages.
The concept of language understanding has always been contentious, as meaning-making depends not only on form and immediate meaning but also on context. Therefore, understanding natural language involves more than just parsing form and meaning; it requires access to grounding for true comprehension. Equipping language models with linguistics-grounded capabilities remains a complex task, given the importance of discourse, pragmatics, and social context in language understanding.
Understanding language is a doubly challenging task as it necessitates not only grasping the intrinsic capabilities of LLMs but also examining their impact and requirements in real-world applications. While LLMs have shown effectiveness in various applications, the lack of supporting theories raises concerns about ethical implications, particularly in applications involving human interaction.
The “Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era” (LUHME) workshop aims to reignite the debate on the role of understanding in natural language use and its applications. It seeks to explore the necessity of language understanding in computational tasks like machine translation and natural language generation, as well as the contributions of language professionals in enhancing computational language understanding.
 
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
·       Language understanding in LLMs
·       Language grounding
·       Psycholinguistic approaches to language understanding
·       Discourse, pragmatics and language understanding
·       Evaluation of language understanding
·       Multi-modality and language understanding
·       Socio-cultural aspects in understanding language
·       Effects of language misunderstanding by computational models
·       Manifestations of language understanding
·       Distributional semantics and language understanding
·       Linguistic theory and language understanding by machines
·       Linguistic, world, and common sense knowledge in language understanding
·       Machine translation and/or interpreting and language understanding
·       Human vs. machine language understanding
·       Role of language professionals in the LLMs era
·       Understanding language and explainable AI
 
Ethics Statement
Research reported at ECAI and LUHME workshop should avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, fair and non-discriminatory, and respect privacy and intellectual property. Where relevant, authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference page, a short ethics statement that addresses ethical issues regarding the research being reported and the broader ethical impact of the work. Reviewers will be asked to flag possible violations of relevant ethical principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by a senior member of the programme committee. Authors may be required to revise their paper to include a discussion of possible ethical concerns and their mitigation.
 
Submission Instructions
Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ECAI LaTeX template, and not exceed 7 pages (not including references). The ECAI LaTeX Template can be found at https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eurai.org/ECAI/2024/Workshop/LUHME
 
Excessive use of typesetting tricks to make things fit is not permitted. Please do not modify the style files or layout parameters. You can resubmit any number of times until the submission deadline. The workshop papers will be published in the proceedings (further information will be provided soon).
 
Important Dates
·       Paper submission: 31 May 2024 29 June 2024
·       Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024
·       Camera-ready papers: 31 July 2024
·       LUHME workshop: 20 October 2024
 
Invited Speakers
·       Alexander Koller, Saarland University
·       Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen
 
Organisation
This workshop is jointly organised by the chairs of working groups 1 (Computational Linguistics) and 7 (Language Work, Language Professionals) of the COST Action LITHME – Language in the Human-Machine Era (CA19102).
 
Workshop Organisers
·       Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto, Portugal)
·       Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal)
·       Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
·       Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
·       Márta Seresi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
 
 
Program Committee
·       Aida Kostikova (Bielefeld University)
·       Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
·       Alípio Jorge (University of Porto)
·       António Branco (University of Lisbon)
·       Belinda Maia (University of Porto)
·       Caroline Lehr (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics)
·       Diana Santos (Universitetet i Oslo)
·       Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean)
·       Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim)
·       Eliot Bytyçi (Universiteti i Prishtinës “Hasan Prishtina”)
·       Hanna Risku (University of Vienna)
·       Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki)
·       Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa)
·       Nataša Pavlović (University of Zagreb)
·       Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València)
·       Ran Zhang (Bielefeld University)
·       Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University)
·       Sule Yildirim Yayilgan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
·       Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University)
 
 
For further information, please visit https://luhme.web.uah.es/ or contact rssilva@letras.up.pt


Rui Sousa Silva

Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto

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