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The ISLab research group at #unimi. Posts in English and Italian about research from Computational Linguistics to Computational Humanities. Account […] [bridged from https://fediscience.org/@IslabUnimi on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Latest posts by islabunimi.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy on Bluesky

Original post on hcommons.social

You have an PhD in #DigitalHumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #PostDoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #DHGraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

03.11.2025 14:55 — 👍 4    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on qoto.org

On 31 March 2026, University College London will be hosting a Festschrift Symposium for Professor M. Angela Sasse, to recognise and celebrate her contributions to the field of Computer Science and human-centred security specifically. We are seeking scientific contributions to a volume that will […]

03.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Application for Postdoctoral Research Associate

The DeCenter at Princeton is hiring a cohort of postdocs to work on decentralization of power through decentralization of trust. HCI folks encouraged to apply https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=40762 #academia #postdoc

01.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on hci.social

The proceedings from our workshop are out!

D-SAIL Workshop on Transformative Curriculum Design - Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4051

Thank you to everyone who was part of this. We are looking forward to meeting again at the […]

05.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

The irony...
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/

13.09.2025 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
IEEE-CH Cyber Humanities The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities (IEEE CH) is an annual event co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.

Just arrived at IEEE CyberHumanities. I'll be presenting our progress in evaluating the historical adequacy of #maskedLanguageModels. Our case study is on #earlyModernEnglish. Let me know if you're in Florence for a chat. www.ieee-ch.org
#CyberHumanities #IEEECH25

08.09.2025 09:20 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on fedihum.org

Mein toller neuer Kollege Christoph Sander startet demnächst sein ERC-Projekt @scigma bei uns am CERES @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Eine erste Promotionsstelle (75%, 3 Jahre) ist schon ausgeschrieben: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/1b63dff2eab1d2c4f72e32ca6fa4fb65c85f9cfe0?ref=homepage Wer […]

13.08.2025 09:01 — 👍 6    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 1
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UZH: Lecturer Teaching The Art History Department (Program Directorate) in collaboration of the departments of Film Studies, Archaeology, Media and Communication, and Educational Sciences of the University of Zurich is seek...

JOB: Lecturer in Digital Methods for the Study of Visual Cultural Data

Start: Jan 2026 | Permanent | 100% 👀
Focus: digital curation, computational analysis (CV, ML, network analysis, data ethics) of artworks, photographs, films…

#DigitalHumanities #VisualCulture #DigitalArtHistory

14.08.2025 10:16 — 👍 22    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0
Poster of a mini conference at DH2025 about digital methods for comparative literary studies

Poster of a mini conference at DH2025 about digital methods for comparative literary studies

#DH2025 attendants, we will also stream this mini-conference about digital methodsin comparativeliterature, so anybody is welcome to attend!

With 17 lightning talks and demo! ⚡️📢
dls.hypotheses.org/1952

#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

14.07.2025 10:48 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0

Università della Svizzera Italiana (located in Lugano, Switzerland) has announced fully-funded #PhD vacancies in #NLP

https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-phd-dacco-2025.pdf

28.06.2025 06:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on hci.social

We have received 12 abstract submissions for the #DSAIL2025 workshop at #AIED2025. One more hour remaining if you also wish to join. In the remaining week until the full-paper submission deadline, please ensure that your work aligns well with the workshop guidelines.

#CfP #AIED […]

20.05.2025 07:57 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on fediscience.org

The Society of Learning Analytics Research #SoLAR announces their Early Career Research Grant

If you have been awarded with a PhD qualification no longer than 5 years prior to the application deadline, you are eligible for a #scholarship of a total of $15,000 CAD.

The 2025 theme is […]

16.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on fediscience.org

3rd International Conference Recent Advances in Digital Humanities (RADH 2025), organised by the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Digital Humanities Research Centre (University of Bucharest), in partnership with the Department of British, American and German Studies, Faculty of […]

12.05.2025 08:55 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on hci.social

A new meta-study shows that ChatGPT greatly helps learning performance, and only less so learning perception and higher-order thinking. More importantly, the authors identify several moderating factors, such as type of course, learning model, the role played by ChatGPT and others. Finally, they […]

08.05.2025 14:59 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on hci.social

#BerkeleyRDI and LLM Agents MOOC announce the #AgentX competition

Two Tracks for Innovators:
- Entrepreneurship Track: Develop/push startup ideas (incl. MVPs) that leverage LLM Agents for applications such as developer tools, enterprise software, and consumer applications, etc
- Research Track […]

08.05.2025 03:07 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A study testing how ChatGPT generates mind maps.

It appears it's not doing bad in technical (formal?) domains.

https://doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2025.2497110

07.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on masto.bg

A report by IBM explains part of the hype around GenAI:

25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected ROI over the last few years

52% of CEOs say their organization is realizing value from generative AI investments beyond cost reduction

For 64% of CEOs the risk of falling behind drives […]

07.05.2025 04:38 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

Great overview of what happened in the field of #nlp since # transformers and #ChatGPT came along.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/

02.05.2025 01:07 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on hci.social

Great news! Our paper submission deadline was extended.

D-SAIL focuses on transformative curriculum design through the lens of data science, AI, and sustainable innovation in education, governance, and law.

Topics include:
- Innovative Pedagogical Frameworks
- AI & Data Analytics for Adaptive […]

30.04.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on fediscience.org

We are happy to announce that as part of the project #MetaLing we are also inviting Francesco Periti from #kuleuven. He will tell us about his work on #semanticChange with #LLMs. The event is taking place online tomorrow at 14:30 CEST […]

28.04.2025 08:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on mastodon.social

Geographical and disciplinary coverage of open access journals: OpenAlex, Scopus, and WoS

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0320347

"Among the 62,701 active OA journals listed in ROAD, the WoS indexes 6,157 journals, Scopus indexes 7,351, while OpenAlex indexes […]

16.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 2    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

@andytseng.bsky.social the difficulty with these small models is that they need an LLM to distill from. This means that they cannot be trained from scratch, and as a consequence carry the biases of the large model they were distilled from.

15.04.2025 05:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on qoto.org

It's happening! We're going to host a workshop at #AIED2025. The topic is *Transformative Curriculum Design:
Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning* and we're accepting contributions till the 5th of May. More information available on the website […]

27.03.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The DURel Annotation Tool: Human and Computational Measurement of Semantic Proximity, Sense Clusters and Semantic Change

We are happy to announce that Dominik Schlechtweg, the creator of the #DURel semantic annotation tool is coming to Milan on Friday (28 March) to present it
https://dllcm.unimi.it/it/durel-annotation-tool-human-and-computational-measurement-semantic-proximity-sense-clusters-and-semantic-change

26.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3937 - Proceedings of IRCDL 2025

A presentation of our archive was published in the #IRCDL2025 proceedings. It features some formal considerations behind the project, notably an analysis of representation of the book sample.
ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/#pa...
The report is written by @mapto.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy and @manutenca.bsky.social.

14.03.2025 12:22 — 👍 2    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on qoto.org

An introduction to the project BogoSlov (Biblical OriGins in slavOnic texts - Systems for Language-modelled Observation and Verification) has been published in the proceedings of the #IRCDL25 (Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science) conference.

In it we […]

14.03.2025 10:18 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science

Now travelling to #IRCDL in Udine ircdl2025.uniud.it, where I look forward to get some ideas about several projects I am currently working on.

20.02.2025 07:15 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on mas.to

I wrote up the things I think are the most relevant for fediverse advocates and network builders from a great new Engine Room report on what activists and other folks doing social justice/civil society work in the Majority World/Global South need from networks. I'll do a thread tomorrow, but […]

13.12.2024 03:47 — 👍 2    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0
Original post on fediscience.org

Un caldo invito a ponderare rischi e opportunità e trarre il meglio dalla rivoluzione #IA in corso. Questo il filo conduttore del nuovo articolo nel nostro blog scritto nel tentativo di portare un piccolo reportage di quello visto e sentito alla #MilanoDigitalWeek legandolo a ciò che facciamo […]

18.10.2024 13:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Original post on mastodon.social

The Media Economies Design Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a 5-month process of mentorship and peer-to-peer learning, empowering veteran community builders to adopt emerging open social networks.

#onlinecommunity #socialmedia […]

25.09.2024 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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