Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at EPFL in
Switzerland, to be hosted jointly by the Artificial Intelligence Lab
<https://lia.epfl.ch/> (headed by Prof. Boi Faltings) and the Data Science
Lab <https://dlab.epfl.ch/> (headed by Prof. Robert West). The position is
for a period of two years.
Apply here:
https://dlab.epfl.ch/2021-04-09-neurosymbolic-ai-postdoc-position/
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Description
We seek a candidate who will lead innovative research projects at the
crossroads of machine learning, natural language processing, and automated
reasoning. Our goal is to develop novel neuro-symbolic AI paradigms and
systems that combine the stunning recent progress in distributed
representation learning (e.g., recurrent neural networks, transformers,
graph neural networks) with symbolic reasoning skills (e.g., knowledge
graphs, semantic networks, logical reasoning, planning).
The position is funded by TAILOR <https://tailor-network.eu/> (“Trustworthy
AI: Integrating Learning, Optimisation, and Reasoning”), an EU-funded
network with the purpose of laying the scientific foundations for
Trustworthy AI in Europe.
The successful candidate will coordinate EPFL’s role within the TAILOR
network and lead innovative research projects in a stimulating, open, and
international research environment consisting of many highly talented and
motivated students, embedded in a strong network of academic and industrial
collaborators.
Other benefits include a competitive salary (around CHF 82,000 p.a.), an
extremely well funded national research system, an office next to a
stunning lake and even more stunning mountains, and generous travel support.
Involvement in teaching is possible but not required. Project work with
master and PhD students is expected.
Time frame
The ideal start date is late 2021 or early 2022. There is, however, some
flexibility. The position will be for a period of two years.
QualificationsCandidates should have completed, or be near completion of, a
PhD with a strong international publication record in areas such as
artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing,
data mining, information retrieval, etc. The successful candidate will do
innovative and creative work in the space spanned by these bases, and the
potential to do so counts more than the exact coordinates in this space.
Strong programming skills are required.
About EPFL
EPFL ranks among the world’s top universities in the field of computer
science. It is located in Lausanne, Switzerland, a beautiful and vibrant
city in an Alpine setting on the shores of scenic Lake Geneva, in the very
heart of Europe. English is the main language spoken at EPFL, and Lausanne
is highly international, such that no French language skills are required.
How to apply
Please follow the instructions here:
https://dlab.epfl.ch/2021-04-09-neurosymbolic-ai-postdoc-position/
Call for Abstracts - Doctoral Programme
14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2021 -
July 26-31, 2020
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021
CICM is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to meet
established researchers from the areas of computer algebra, automated
deduction, and mathematical publishing.
The Doctoral Programme provides a dedicated forum for PhD students to
present and discuss their ideas, ongoing or planned research, and
results in an open atmosphere. It will consist of presentations by the
PhD students to get constructive feedback, advice, and suggestions
from the research advisory board, researchers, and other PhD
students. Each PhD student will be assigned to an experienced
researcher from the research advisory board who will act as a mentor
and who will provide detailed feedback and advice on their intended
and ongoing research.
Application
Students at any stage of their PhD can apply and should submit the
following documents:
* A two-page abstract of your thesis describing your research
questions, research plans, completed and remaining research,
evaluation plans and publication plans;
* A two-page CV that includes background information (name,
university, supervisor), education (degree sought, year/status of
degree, previous degrees), employments, relevant research experience
(publications, presentations, attended conferences or workshops,
etc.)
All submissions should be made via
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cicm2021 until 15 May 2021.
The doctoral program will be held online.
More details here: https://cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=general
Hello,
Recently, I published my new book on wikis and Wikipedia, at Transcript Verlag.
It is an introduction for wiki researchers, founders and supporters,
and offers a systematic approach to wikis with a wiki model and first
steps to a general theory of wikis.
For your information, I have below a link to my YouTube channel with a
short presentation in English, and the link to the publisher.
On the way to the book, which took seven years, I have learned from
many researchers and from people in the Wikimedia movement, and I am
grateful to all of them.
Kind regards
Ziko
https://youtu.be/LvaJfkUUWuwhttps://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5645-9/wikis-und-die-wikipedia-…
The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia and the *10th
anniversary of Wikimedia Canada*, the non-profit, educational association
that aims to stimulate contributions to Wikimedia projects in Canada. This
double anniversary testifies to the long-term nature of Wikimedia projects
and invites us to reflect on the vitality and specificity of the free
knowledge movement in Canada.
This call for papers aims to collect chapter proposals for a peer-reviewed
book to be published in French and English. The manuscript will be
submitted for publication in the series Parcours numériques at Les Presses
de l'Université de Montréal.
*This book aims to provide critical perspectives of the free knowledge
movement in Canada since the turn of the millennium. *Who contributes, or
does not contribute, to Wikipedia and other projects in the Canadian
Wikimedia ecosystem? What uses or misuses are made of Wikimedia platforms
by the Canadian public, and more specifically by activists, political
parties, teachers, librarians, archivists, the research community,
students, artists, journalists, businesses and casual users of all kinds ?
Currently, Wikimedia projects in Canada are mainly fed by three linguistic
communities (English, French and Atikamekw nehiromowin), which break down
into countless individual and collective profiles. We wish to paint a
portrait of this vast community, as diverse as it is unknown.
We are calling on people who believe in the free culture movement,
Wikimedians, the research community, librarians, archivists and people from
all walks of life to put together an overview of the specificities,
challenges and issues of the Wikimedia movement in Canada.
The book will bring together around a dozen texts, each between 3000 and
3500 words. We are particularly interested in texts that offer a
synthesized understanding of a project's general scope (Wikipedia,
Wikisource, Commons, Wikidata, etc.), centred on the Canadian context as a
whole, or on a particular community -- province, nation, region, city, etc.
These texts could address, but are not limited to, the following themes:
-
Scholarly research on the Wikimedia Movement in Canada ;
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Wikidata, the Semantic Web and the Canadian context;
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Wikimedia projects within GLAMU (galleries, libraries, archives,
museums, universities);
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The Wikimedia movement and open education in Canada;
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History and actors of Wikimedia Canada;
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Wikipedia, online health and Covid-19 in Canada ;
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Editorial controversies within portals related to Canada in the various
language versions of Wikipedia ;
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The arts community, Canadian Cities and the Wikimedia projects;
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The feminist and LGBTQ+ movements in Canada in Wikimedia projects;
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Contributing feedback related to Wikimedia projects;
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The use of Wikimedia projects within Indigenous nations;
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The reading and consultation habits of Canadian users.
The target audience for the book is the Canadian general public, the
international Wikimedia community and the research community.
Terms and conditions of participation
Proposals should be sent by Friday the 14th of May 2021 at the latest at
WMCA10(a)wikimedia.ca. They can be written in French or English.
Please include in your proposal 1) a working title, 2) an abstract of
approximately 350 words, 3) five to ten bibliographic references and 4) a
short biography of each author.
The results will be communicated to all authors who have submitted a
proposal by the end of May. Selected papers should be submitted no later
than the 1st of November 2021 for peer review and translation.
For any question, please contact Jean-Michel Lapointe :
jmlapointe(a)wikimedia.ca.
Scientific direction of the book
-
Jean-Michel Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal and Wikimedia
Canada
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Sophie Montreuil, Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas)
See this call for proposals on Wikimedia Canada’s website
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMCA@10/Appel_%C3%A0_contributions>
(reference version)
*Nathalie Casemajor*
Professeure-chercheure
INRS - Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Centre Urbanisation Culture Société
Codirectrice de l’Observatoire des médiations culturelles
<https://omec.inrs.ca/> (OMEC)
385 Sherbrooke Est, Montréal H2X 1E3
T 514 499-8278 – Bureau 5124
http://www.inrs.ca/nathalie-casemajor
Hi everyone,
We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2021 will be held
virtually in April 2021 and as part of the Web Conference 2021 [1].
The exact day is to be finalized and we know it will be between April
19-23.
In the past years, Wiki Workshop has traveled to Oxford, Montreal,
Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San Francisco, and (virtually) to Taipei.
Last year, we had more than 120 participants in the workshop and we
are particularly excited about this year's as we will celebrate the
20th birthday of Wikipedia.
We encourage contributions by all researchers who study the Wikimedia
projects. We specifically encourage 1-2 page submissions of
preliminary research. You will have the option to publish your work as
part of the proceedings of The Web Conference 2021.
You can read more about the call for papers and the workshop at
http://wikiworkshop.org/2021/#call. Please note that the deadline for
the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 29. All
other submissions should be received by March 1.
If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this
list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com.
Looking forward to seeing many of you in this year's edition.
Best,
Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
Bob West, EPFL
Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://www2021.thewebconf.org/
Dear all,
Hurry up! The submission deadline for Semantics 2021 is approaching!
# Important dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: April 12, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time -
originally March 29)
Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Camera-Ready Paper: June 06, 2021 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
For details please go to: https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp
<https://2021-eu.semantics.cc/cfp>
Stay tuned and stay safe!
With kind regards,
Mehwish Alam & Paul Groth
-- R&I Track Chairs --
*The Second Wikidata Workshop*
Co-located with the 20th International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC
2021).
Date: October 24 or 25, 2021
The workshop will be held online, afternoon European time.
Website: https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2021/
== Important dates ==
Papers due: Friday, July 30, 2021
Notification of accepted papers: Friday, September 24, 2021
Camera-ready papers due: Monday, October 4, 2021
Workshop date: October 24/25, 2021
== Overview ==
Wikidata is an openly available knowledge base, hosted by the Wikimedia
Foundation. It can be accessed and edited by both humans and machines and
acts as a common structured-data repository for several Wikimedia projects,
including Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikisource. It is used in a variety of
applications by researchers and practitioners alike.
In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of publications
around Wikidata. While there are several dedicated venues for the broader
Wikidata community to meet, none of them focuses on publishing original,
peer-reviewed research. This workshop fills this gap - we hope to provide a
forum to build this fledgling scientific community and promote novel work
and resources that support it.
The workshop seeks original contributions that address the opportunities
and challenges of creating, contributing to, and using a global,
collaborative, open-domain, multilingual knowledge graph such as Wikidata.
We encourage a range of submissions, including novel research, opinion
pieces, and descriptions of systems and resources, which are naturally
linked to Wikidata and its ecosystem, or enabled by it. What we’re less
interested in are works which use Wikidata alongside or in lieu of other
resources to carry out some computational task - unless the work feeds back
into the Wikidata ecosystem, for instance by improving or commenting on
some Wikidata aspect, or suggesting new design features, tools and
practices.
We also encourage submissions on the topic of Abstract Wikipedia,
particularly around collaborative code management, natural language
generation by a community, the abstract representation of knowledge, and
the interaction between Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata on the one, and
Abstract Wikipedia and the language Wikipedias on the other side.
We welcome interdisciplinary work, as well as interesting applications that
shed light on the benefits of Wikidata and discuss areas of improvement.
The workshop is planned as an interactive half-day event, in which most of
the time will be dedicated to discussions and exchange rather than oral
presentations. For this reason, all accepted papers will be presented in
short talks and accompanied by a poster. All works will be presented
online.
== Topics ==
Topics of submissions include, but are not limited to:
- Data quality and vandalism detection in Wikidata
- Referencing in Wikidata
- Anomaly, bias, or novelty detection in Wikidata
- Algorithms for aligning Wikidata with other knowledge graphs
- The Semantic Web and Wikidata
- Community interaction in Wikidata
- Multilingual aspects in Wikidata
- Machine learning approaches to improve data quality in Wikidata
- Tools, bots and datasets for improving or evaluating Wikidata
- Participation, diversity and inclusivity aspects in the Wikidata ecosystem
- Human-bot interaction
- Managing knowledge evolution in Wikidata
- Abstract Wikipedia
== Submission guidelines ==
We welcome the following types of contributions.
- Full research paper: Novel research contributions (7-12 pages)
- Short research paper: Novel research contributions of smaller scope than
full papers (3-6 pages)
- Position paper: Well-argued ideas and opinion pieces, not yet in the
scope of a research contribution (6-8 pages)
- Resource paper: New dataset or other resources directly relevant to
Wikidata, including the publication of that resource (8-12 pages)
- Demo paper: New system critically enabled by Wikidata (6-8 pages)
Submissions must be as PDF or HTML, formatted in the style of the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For
details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions.
The papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three researchers. Accepted
papers will be published as open access papers on CEUR (we will only
publish to CEUR if the authors agree to have their papers published).
Papers have to be submitted through easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikidataworkshop21
== Proceedings ==
The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop
Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org).
== Organizing committee ==
Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, University of Southampton, lucie.kaffee[[(a)]]gmail.com
Simon Razniewski, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, srazniew[[@]]
mpi-inf.mpg.de
Aidan Hogan, University of Chile, ahogan[[(a)]]dcc.uchile.cl
== Programme committee ==
Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
John Samuel, CPE Lyon
Dennis Diefenbach, University Jean Monet
Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia Deutschland
Edgar Meij, Bloomberg L.P.
Thomas Pellissier Tanon, Lexistems
Hiba Arnaout, MPI for Informatics
Fabian Suchanek, Télécom ParisTech
Filip Ilievski, ISI
Marco Ponza, Bloomberg L.P.
Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim
Cristina Sarasua, University of Zurich
Pavlos Vougiouklis, Huawei Technologies, Edinburgh
Finn Årup Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark
Andrew D. Gordon, Microsoft Research & University of Edinburgh
(Deadline Extension: April 5, 2021) Call for Papers
formal papers - informal papers - doctoral programme
14th Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics
- CICM 2021 -
July 26-31, 2020
Timisoara, Romania
http://www.cicm-conference.org/2021
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Invited Speakers
* Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT)
* Michael Kohlhase (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
* Laura Kovacs (TU Vienna, Austria)
* Angus McIntyre (London/Edinburgh, UK)
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Digital and computational solutions are becoming the prevalent means
for the generation, communication, processing, storage and curation of
mathematical information.
CICM brings together the many separate communities that have developed
theoretical and practical solutions for mathematical applications such
as computation, deduction, knowledge management, and user interfaces.
It offers a venue for discussing problems and solutions in each of
these areas and their integration.
CICM 2021 Programme committee:
see https://www.cicm-conference.org/2021/cicm.php?event=&menu=pc
CICM 2021 invites submissions in all topics relating to intelligent
computer mathematics, in particular but not limited to
* theorem proving and computer algebra
* mathematical knowledge management
* digital mathematical libraries
CICM appreciates the varying nature of the relevant research in this
area and invites submissions of different forms:
1) Formal submissions will be reviewed rigorously and accepted papers
will be published in a volume of Springer LNCS:
* regular papers (up to 15 pages including references) present
novel research results
* project and survey papers (up to 15 pages + bibliography)
summarize existing results
* system and dataset descriptions (up to 5 pages including
references) present digital artifacts
* system entry (1 page according to the given LaTeX template)
provides metadata and a quick overview of a new tool or a new
release of an existent tool
2) Informal submissions will be reviewed with a positive bias and
selected for presentation based on their relevance for the
community.
* informal papers may present work-in-progress, project
announcements, position statements, etc.
* posters and system demos will be presented in parallel in special
sessions
3) The doctoral programme provides PhD students with a forum to
present early results and receive constructive feedback and
mentoring.
*** Important Dates ***
- Abstract deadline: As soon as possible before the fullpaper
submission deadline.
- Full paper deadline: April 5, 2021 (extended deadline)
- Reviews sent to authors: May 9, 2021 (extended deadline)
- Rebuttals due: May 13, 2021 (extended deadline)
- Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2021 (extended deadline)
- Camera-ready copies due: May 31, 2021 (extended deadline)
- Conference: July 26-31, 2021
Informal submissions and doctoral programme
- Submission deadline: May 15, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2021
All submissions should be made via easychair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cicm2021
As in previous years, we will publish the CICM 2021 proceedings with
Springer LNCS.
Hi everyone,
We’re preparing for the March 2021 research newsletter and looking for
contributors. Please take a look at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WRN202103 and add your name next to any
paper you are interested in covering. Our target publication time is 28
March 16:00 UTC. If you can't make this deadline but would like to cover a
particular paper in the subsequent issue, leave a note next to the paper's
entry. As usual, short notes and one-paragraph reviews are most welcome.
*Highlights from this month:*
- A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search
Engine Results
- Giving knowledge back to Wikipedia: Towards a Systematic Approach to
Sync Factual Data across Wikipedia, Wikidata and External Data Sources
- Much more than a mere technology: A systematic review of Wikidata in
libraries
- On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web
- Psychology and Wikipedia: Measuring Psychology Journals’ Impact by
Wikipedia Citations
- References in Wikipedia: The Editors' Perspective
- Understanding Wikipedia practices through Hindi, Urdu, and English
takes on an evolving regional conflict
- Volunteer contributions to Wikipedia increased during COVID-19
mobility restrictions
*Masssly and Tilman Bayer*
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
[2] WikiResearch (@WikiResearch) | Twitter
<https://twitter.com/WikiResearch>