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New website for OSGK

Our parent organization, the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK), has a new website.

OFAI was established in 1984 as a special research institution of …

Examining the sources of visual humour

A computer-assisted study on the role of scale distortions in visual humour has been published in the European Journal of Humour Studies.

The article, "On …

Ibn Jinni and the origin of language

In "Social consensus and divine inspiration", Peter Hallman looks at remarks on the origin of language by Muslim Arab linguist and philosopher Ibn Jinni. The …

CfP: GermEval2024 GerMS-Detect - Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora

We are pleased to announce the GermEval2024 GerMS-Detect shared task about Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora, to be published at KONVENS2024.

For details …

Robert Trappl zu Gast in der Ö1 Sendereihe IM GESPRÄCH

Andreas Obrecht im Gespräch mit Robert Trappl über den KI-Hype seit ChatGPT; über KI-Ethik und die Tendenz in Europa in KI-Ethik zu investieren statt in …

Article in GLOSSA Journal of General Linguistics

View Peter Hallman's latest article, on parallels between causative and double object constructions and what they say about the base thematic hierarchy. Be sure to …

Paper at Nature Scientific Reports

Marcin Skowron has coauthored the article "Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive over the last five decades" published in Nature Scientific Reports (open …

JOKER workshop previewed at ECIR 2024

JOKER-2024, an upcoming workshop and shared task on Automatic Wordplay Analysis, will be previewed next week at the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR …

Peter Hallman invited talk at Uni Graz

"Aspectual Composition in the Arabic Imperfective"

Peter Hallman gave an invited talk on "Aspectual Composition in the Arabic Imperfective" in the Workshop "Exploring Verbal Paradigms …