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10 to 13 September 2024 KONVENS Conference in Vienna

OFAI as local co-organiser is pleased to announce the KONVENS (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache/Conference on Natural Language Processing) which will take place in …

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GerMS-Detect Workshop on Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora, at KONVENS2024 in Vienna

We are pleased to announce the GerMS-Detect Workshop on Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora which will take place as part of the KONVENS …

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Podiumsdiskussion zu AI in der Medienproduktion

Wir laden Sie herzlich zur Podiumsdiskussion "AI in der Medienproduktion" am 10. September 2024 um 16:30 im Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation …

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GerMS-AT Corpus Published

The GerMS-AT (German Misogyny/Sexsim - Austria) Corpus, which has been used for the GermEval2024 GerMS-Detect shared task has now been fully released publicly under a …

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A screenshot of the new OSGK website with the following text: OSGK / Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies / Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik / The Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (German: Österreich­ische Studien­gesell­schaft für Kyber­netik, or OSGK) is a non-profit organization of scientists and practitioners. It was founded in 1969. Its aims are the study of the theoretical bases of cybernetics and its special fields, the investigation of its applications on technical, economic and social problems, its relations to problems studied in the natural sciences and the humanities; furthermore, the education in the methods of cybernetics and its technical aids, especially in electronic data processing; finally, the advancement of interdisciplinary studies, and the representation of Austria in international organizations.

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 …

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A cartoon scene showing a picnic in a wooded area. A red and white chequered blanket is spread on the ground. Behind it stand a girl and a woman holding a picnic basket. To the side is a an holding a fire extinguisher.

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 …

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Excerpt from Babel showing the article headline with an artist's impression of Ibn Jinni

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 …

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lunch lecture

Stephanie Gross - invited lunch lecture at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law

Stephanie Gross gave an invited talk on "Bias in Language Models" at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna …

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LREC-Coling 2024

Paper at LREC-Coling 2024

OFAI and derStandard have coauthored a paper "GERMS-AT: A Sexism/Misogyny Dataset of Forum Comments from an Austrian Online Newspaper" whihc was presented at THE …

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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 …

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