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3 April 2023, A morning with ChatGPT: A discussion of generative language models & its impact on the university
Everyone is talking about ChatGPT, and many predict that it and similar ‘large language models’ will have a major impact on education, learning, science and publishing. The ILLC – home to Amsterdam’s largest research group studying language models – invites lecturers, students, and collaborators to a morning on ChatGPT & the university.
How does it work? What can it do, and what can it not do? What are some of the ethical and legal dilemma’s when using this technology? We’ll have some short talks and demonstrations, and plenty of time to answer your questions. With: Prof Raquel Fernández (dialogue systems), Dr Jelle Zuidema (explainable AI), Dr Jelke Bloem (digital humanities), Dr. Sandro Pezzelle (responsible AI), and others.
15 June 2023, 2nd International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages, Tampere, Finland
Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach.
The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages.
The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation - deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media.
Submissions related to the workshop topics are sollicited. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome.
Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: Research, review, position and application papers (4-8 pages) and Extended abstracts presenting original, ongoing work or innovative ideas (4 pages). Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates. Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference.
11 - 15 September 2023, Logic, Algebra and Truth Degrees 2023 (LATD 2023), Tbilisi (Georgia)
The assumption that “truth comes in degrees” has proved to be very useful in many theoretical and applied areas of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.
The Logic Algebra and Truth Degrees (LATD) conference series started as an official meeting of the working group on Mathematical Fuzzy Logic (the subdiscipline of mathematical logic dealing with graded truth) and evolved into a wider meeting in algebraic logic and related areas. Its main goal is to foster collaboration between researchers in these areas, and to promote communication and cooperation with members of neighbouring fields.
LATD 2023 will take place in Tbilisi (Georgia) from 11 to 15 of September. It will be co-located with the Seventeenth International Tbilisi Summer School in Logic and Language (TBILISI 2023), 6-9 September. Moreover, after LATD, 18-22 September, there will be the Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation in nearby Telavi (Khacheti).
We invite contributions on any relevant aspects of logical systems (including many-valued, fuzzy, substructural, modal and quantum logics), in particular:
• Proof theory and computational complexity;
• Algebraic semantics and abstract algebraic logic;
• First-order, higher-order and modal formalisms;
• Applications and foundational issues;
• Geometric and game theoretic aspects.
Abstracts of contributed talks of 2-4 pages are to be prepared using the EasyChair class style and submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=latd2023
The deadline for contributions is 15 April 2023 and the notification of acceptance will be sent by 1 June 2023.
30 August - 1 September 2023, The Eleventh Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (Progic 2023), Utrecht, the Netherlands
The special focus of PROGIC2023 is Knowledge representation and reasoning. Classically, logic and probability offer competing representations of partial or incomplete information, with the former assuming a qualitative perspective on uncertainty and the latter focusing on a quantitative account. Both provide their own policies for updating on new information, combining evidence from different sources, and acting under partial information.
Invited Speakers: Joe Halpern (Cornell University), Gabriele Kern-Isberner (TU Dortmund), Aybüke Özgün (University of Amsterdam) and Jon Williamson (University of Kent).
We solicit submissions that bridge these two perspectives. These could, for instance, apply probabilistic or other quantitative tools to the study of logical systems or use logical frameworks, classical or substructural, for understanding probabilistic approaches. They may also apply to specific sub-areas, such as game theory, network theory, causal modelling or machine learning. We especially invite submissions that combine probability and logic for knowledge representation and reasoning broadly construed.
Submissions should consist of a short abstract (~200 words) and an *extended abstract* (~1000 words, pdf format). The submission portal is at https://progic23.sciencesconf.org/. Submission deadline: April 15, 2023. Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2023.
7 - 11 August 2023, ESSLLI 2023 Workshop on First-order Modal and Temporal Logics: State of the art and perspectives
The workshop will comprise five 90-min sessions, one per day, with invited and contributed talks. It is intended to bring together active researchers in the areas of first-order modal and temporal logics and graduate students interested in these areas, to discuss the state of the art and the most important directions and perspectives for future developments in the areas.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following for first-order modal and temporal logics:- languages, models, and semantics;- proof theory, deductive systems, and completeness/incompleteness results;- decidability, undecidability, complexity;- problems and applications in philosophy, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence.
We invite submissions of extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages long) on recent or ongoing research in the scope of the workshop. The submissions should be in PDF format, preferably prepared with LaTeX, and must be done via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fomtl2023
Important dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 16
Final decision and notification: May 16
Deadline for registration at the workshop: June 30
Workshop: August 7-11
See further details in Call for submissions on the Workshop webpage.
24 June 2023, DPFO'23: The Decision Problem in First-Order Logic
[LICS Affiliated Workshop] Nearly a century has now passed since D. Hilbert and W. Ackermann asked if there an algorithm which, when given a formula of first-order logic, determines whether that formula is satisfiable. The negative answer provided by A. Church and A. Turing only a decade later transformed this question into a classification programme: for which fragments of first-order logic, we ask, is the problem of determining the satisfiability of a given formula decidable? Can we chart, in the words of W.V.O. Quine, the limits of decision in first-order logic? Indeed, logicians now typically set themselves a more ambitious goal: given a fragment of first order logic, if its satisfiability (and/or its finite satisfiability problem) is decidable, what is its computational complexity?
From early work on quantifier-prefix fragments, the study of the satisfiability problem (and finite satisfiability problem) for fragments of first-order logic, and indeed of its non-first-order extensions,has now become a central topic in Computational Logic. The aim of the workshop, affiliated with LICS 2023, is to highlight recent developments in this area, with particular emphasis on those fragments which have been the focus of recent interest. These include, for example: Modal and description logics; Logics for ontology-based data access; The negation-guarded fragment; The fluted fragment; Separation logics; Logics of dependence and independence; Combinations of existing fragments.
We invite contributions in the form of 30-minute talks on any topic covered by the workshop title (not confined to the list above). Those interested in giving a contributed talk should submit a short abstract of no more than 2 normally spaced A4/letter pages via via Easy chair.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: (April 19th, 2023).
Final decision by organizers and notification: April 28th, 2023
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.
1 July 2023, 7th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2023), Rome, Italy
Women in Logic 2023 is a satellite event of the 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023) to be held in Rome, Italy, from July 1 to July 6, 2023.
The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides an opportunity to increase awareness of the valuable contributions made by women in the area of logic in computer science. Its main purpose is to promote the excellent research done by women, with the ultimate goal of increasing their visibility and representation in the community.
Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style. The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2023 Easychair page as a PDF file before the submission deadline.
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.
22 - 27 April 2023, 26th European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2023), Paris, France
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS, established in 1998, is a confederation of four annual conferences:
- ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
- FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
- FoSSaCS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
- TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
accompanied by satellite workshops.
ETAPS 2023 is the twenty-sixth event in the series. New in 2023 is:
- The SPIN symposium will be co-located with ETAPS.
- TACAS will use a double-blind reviewing process.
- ESOP, FASE, and newly also FoSSaCS welcome voluntary submissions of artefacts for evaluation after paper acceptance; the outcome will not change the paper acceptance decision.
- Presentations of the test-of-time-award and the doctoral- dissertation-award winners will take place.
- A plenary session for TOOLympics will be organised.
- There will be a PhD student mentoring workshop organised by Caterina Urban and Wolfgang Ahrendt.
ETAPS'23 will also host another edition of TOOLympics, organised by Dirk Beyer, Fabrice Kordon, and Arnd Hartmanns.