Author: Henrique Lopes Cardoso

Prémio Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2021

Henrique Lopes Cardoso

A APPIA institui o Prémio para a Melhor Tese de Doutoramento em Inteligência Artificial 2021, 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 2021.

O prémio tem um regulamento específico, sendo que as candidaturas devem ser efectuadas via preenchimento deste formulário até à data limite: 10 de junho de 2022.

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 2021, em Setembro de 2022, durante a realização da 21st Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2022, https://epia2022.inesc-id.pt/).

Organizadores:
Nuno Lau, Universidade de Aveiro
Francisco Melo, Instituto Superior Técnico
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Universidade do Porto

[rede.APPIA] Call for funding applications: ‘Short-Term Scientific Mission’ (STSM), Language in the Human-Machine Era (deadline 15 March 2022)

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/) is a COST Action (https://cost.eu/). We are delighted to welcome applications for our STSM grants. An STSM is one of COST’s standard networking activities, for an individual to visit a host organization located in a different country than their country of affiliation, to gain and share knowledge.

Eligibility follows the COST Association’s rules: basically anyone in a European country or ‘Near Neighbour’ country – https://www.cost.eu/about/cost-strategy/cost-global-networking/ (although please note COST is removing Russia from that list).

We are looking for people who know about language but not so much about technology, and vice versa, and who want to gain and share knowledge across those academic boundaries. Moreover, we want to fund visits that will pursue our goals to produce new insights on the effects of new and emerging language technologies. More information about our themes and interests can be found on our Working Groups page (https://lithme.eu/working-groups) and in our open access forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1). Referring to both these resources will increase the quality of any application.

Further information about eligibility, and the online application form, can be found at http://lithme.eu/short-term-scientific-missions/ and http://lithme.eu/news/STSM2022. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2022.

Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and retweet our announcement: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1493920560228753412

[rede.APPIA] LITHME WG1 invited talk: “The Perspectivist Approach to Natural Language Processing” [Feb 14, 6 pm CET | Zoom]

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
The LITHME WG1 on Computational Linguistics is organizing an invited talk session with Valerio Basile (University of Turin), to take place online via Zoom on February 14, 2022, at 6 pm CET.

Title: The Perspectivist Approach to Natural Language Processing
Abstract:
Much of contemporary Artificial Intelligence is based on supervised machine learning, a methodology that leverages large manually annotated datasets. The harmonization of the annotation, however, is often problematic, especially when highly subjective annotation tasks are performed, e.g., involving pragmatics. Discarding and averaging discordant opinions carries the risk of losing the rich knowledge coming from different annotators' perspectives.
The Perspectivist Manifesto [1] represents an effort towards preserving the disagreement in data-centered AI, while strong perspectivism [2] extends this principle to the full Natural Language Processing pipeline.
In this talk, I will present the new perspectivist paradigm, focusing on NLP, and a few recent works exploring its implications on data annotation, model evaluation, and interoperability.

[1] https://pdai.info
[2] http://www.itais.org/itais2021-proceedings/pdf/21.pdf

Short Bio:
Valerio Basile is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Turin, Italy, member of the Content-centered Computing group and the Hate Speech Monitoring lab. His work spans across several areas such as: formal representations of meaning, linguistic annotation, natural language generation, commonsense knowledge, semantic parsing, sentiment analysis, and hate speech detection, perspectives and bias in supervised machine learning, from data creation to system evaluation.

The session is open to everyone. Please register at

[rede.APPIA] Fwd: [Euraisocieties] EurAI: call for conference sponsorship Autumn 2022

Henrique Lopes Cardoso
———- Forwarded message ———
From: Catholijn Jonker – EWI via Euraisocieties <euraisocieties@eurai.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM
Subject: [Euraisocieties] EurAI: call for conference sponsorship Autumn 2022
To: <euraisocieties@eurai.org>, <EURAIFELLOWS@ls.kuleuven.be>
Cc: <euraiboard@eurai.org>

We recall that EuRAI sponsors invited talks at international conferences. The guidelines for eligibility and duties of sponsored conferences can be read at

https://eurai.org/apply_for/conference_sponsorship

 

Conference organizers who want to apply to funding for a conference that takes place before the end of December 2022 should apply **before April 15, 2022**.

 

The submission URL for EurAI Sponsorship is

https://forms.gle/basuf5A8xt26bicK9   

 

There will be another call in autumn of this year for conferences that take place in the first half of 2023.

 

Best regards,

 

Catholijn Jonker, on behalf of

The EuRAI board.

 

Prof. Dr. C.M. Jonker
Interactive Intelligence Group, Fac. EEMCS, TU Delft and

Explainable Artificial Intelligence, LIACS, Leiden University


Delft office: West6.600 in Building number 28
Delft phone: +31.15.2781315 (is active whenever my laptop is connected to the internet)
Online office https://tudelft.zoom.us/my/catholijn

Mobile phone: +31.6.48875207
Websites: http://ii.tudelft.nl/~catholijn and catholijnjonker.nl

 

 

[rede.APPIA] [Iai-societies] CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO IJCAI-ECAI 2022

Henrique Lopes Cardoso 
*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO IJCAI-ECAI 2022,*
*The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*
IJCAI-ECAI 2022 will take place July 23-29, 2022, in Vienna; you are  invited to contribute to one of its numerous tracks:
  * the main technical program <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-papers/>     /(abstract deadline: *January 7, 2022, *submission deadline:     *January 14, 2022*, see below),/   * a special track on “AI for Good”     <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-ai-for-good/> /(submission deadline:     February 14, 2022),/   * a special track on “AI, the Arts and Creativity”     <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-creativity/> /(submission deadline:     February 18, 2022),/   * workshops <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-workshops/> /(proposal     deadline: February 2, 2022),/   * competitions and challenges     <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-competitions/> /(proposal deadline:     February 2, 2022),/   * a demo track <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-demos/> /(submission     deadline: February 14, 2022)/,   * a survey track <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-survey/> /(submission     deadline: February 14, 2022)/,   * tutorials <https://ijcai-22.org/calls/> /(proposal deadline:     February 18, 2022),/   * a doctoral consortium <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-dc/> /(submission     deadline: March 1, 2022),/   * a robot exhibition track <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-robots/>     /(expression of interest: March 31, 2022),/   * a diversity and inclusion program     <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-diversity/> /(proposals until April 15,     2022),/   * a video track <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-video/> /(submission     deadline: May 10, 2022),/   * an early career spotlight track,   * sister best paper and journal tracks.
Check the website for more information, including updates, for each of  these tracks.
*The main technical track*
Submissions to the IJCAI-ECAI 22 main technical track should report on  significant, original, and previously unpublished results on any aspect  of artificial intelligence. Papers on novel AI research problems, on AI  techniques for novel application domains, and papers that cross  discipline boundaries within AI are especially encouraged.
Key novelties this year:
  * Two phase reviewing process. Only papers that receive two     sufficiently positive reviews during the first phase will proceed to     the second full reviewing phase.   * The program committee consists of PC members (reviewers), Senior PC     members (meta-reviewers) and Area Chairs (ACs).   * The author response (for papers in the second phase only) will be     accessible to PCs, SPCs, and ACs.   * There are separate tracks for “AI for Good”     <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-ai-for-good/> and “AI, the Arts and     Creativity” <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-creativity/>.
The authors of papers submitted to IJCAI-ECAI 2022 are expected to  contribute a limited number of reviews, if asked to.
Moreover, IJCAI-ECAI 2022 is trialing a light-weight ethics review policy.
It is recommended that papers working with sensitive data or on  sensitive tasks include an ethics statement. Reviewers will be asked to  flag glaring violations of ethical principles. Such flagged submissions  will be reviewed by the Ethics Chair.
Important dates:
  * Submission site opening: December 30, 2021   * Abstract deadline: January 10, 2022   * Author information deadline: January 10, 2022   * Submission deadline: January 14, 2022   * Author response period: March 16-18, 2022   * Paper notification: April 20, 2022
For details, see the call for Papers <https://ijcai-22.org/calls-papers>.