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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Call for Participation / EU COST Action `Multi3Generation' Training School</b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; padding-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><strong style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">TRAINING SCHOOL 2022</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">REPRESENTATION MEDIATED MULTIMODALITY: </strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">GROUNDED REPRESENTATION, REASONING, AND LEARNING FOR INTERACTIVE INTERPRETATION</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">September 26 - 30 2022</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://codesign-lab.org/school2022/" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">https://codesign-lab.org/school2022/</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Initiative of EU COST Action / Multi3Generation > <a target="_blank" href="https://multi3generation.eu/" class="">https://multi3generation.eu</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><br class=""></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">ABOUT THE TRAINING SCHOOL</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The training school on ``Representation Mediated Multimodality'' provides a consolidated perspective on the theoretical, methodological, and applied understanding of representation mediated multimodal sensemaking at the interface of language, knowledge representation and reasoning, and visuo-auditory computing. Intended purposes -addressed in the school- encompass diverse operative needs such as explainable multimodal commonsense understanding, multimodal generation/synthesis for communication, multimodal summarisation, multimodal interpretation guided decision-support, adaptation & autonomy, and analytical visualisation.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The training school particularly consolidates and presents a novel and emerging view of state-of-the-art multimodal, neurosymbolic grounding primarily through a confluence of methods in Artficial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Vision, Speech and their impact on interactional and communicative acts/artefacts in everyday life and specialist professional work. Here, multimodal interpretation is to be construed in the context of diverse forms of imagery, e.g., encompassing perceptual and communicative data sources such as image, video, language, audition, text, eye-tracking, neurophysiological markers in behavioural / clinical settings. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">In this backdrop, the training school particularly focusses on grounded knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning (for linguistic purposes) through the following emerging research-driven themes that are of high interest:</p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Space and Language</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Computational Linguistics</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Cognitive Linguistics</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Cognitive Vision</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Vision and Language</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Neurosymbolism</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Narrative - Discourse</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Computational Models of Narrative</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Speech and Language Technologies</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Human-Centred AI</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The principal training school programme --consisting of keynotes, invited talks, and tutorials-- will categorically address questions such as: </p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Explainability and transparency in multimodal models</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Neurosymbolism / Interaction between symbolic and sub-symbolic representations in models</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning, and its role in multimodal models</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Complementarity / redundancy among data sources or modalities</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Situated reasoning, e.g., for language generation, decision-making</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Of particular significance to the training school are themes that benefit both public and private human-centred technological services most directly affecting EU citizens in an accessible, multilingual Europe, and have strong economic and societal impacts. The training school will focus on human-machine interaction considerations in select application areas of emerging societal significance, such as autonomous systems, cognitive robotics, multi-lingual language technologies.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Location: Schloss Etelsen / Bremer Straße 2, 27299 Langwedel, Germany</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Travelling to Schloss Etelsen / <a href="http://schloss-etelsen.de/" class="">https://schloss-etelsen.de</a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The school is being organised as part of the COST action Multi3Generation (<a href="https://multi3generation.eu/" class="">https://multi3generation.eu</a>)</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For more information on the school and programme visit: <a href="https://codesign-lab.org/school2022/" class="">https://codesign-lab.org/school2022/</a></p><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">TARGET AUDIENCE</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Participants are expected to primarily be doctoral candidates and research-driven students. Participants interested in obtaining a scholarship should submit an application to participate as per Application Guidelines (details below). Selected applicants will be financially supported for their participation in the school.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Scholarship includes travel expenses and a daily allowance which covers accommodation, meals, and local travel expenses. The exact amount of the scholarship is based on the expected costs and the maximal amount for reimbursement will be communicated after acceptance.</p><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">APPLICATION -OR- EXPRESSION OF INTEREST</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Applications are accepted and evaluated in two rounds, with a first deadline on <strong class="">May 15 2022</strong>, and a second deadline on <strong class="">June 5 2022</strong>; after this date, new applications will only be considered if there are still places available (please note that places are limited even if a scholarship is not sought).</p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Application to participate (with scholarship): PRESENTLY OPEN / Submit: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcts2022" class="">Easychair: Training School 2022</a></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Expression of interest to participate (without scholarship): PRESENTLY OPEN / Email: contact School Chair</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Important Dates: </strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">First deadline : May 15 2022 (application process remains open for late applications)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">First notification: May 23 2022</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Second deadline: June 5 2022</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Second notification: June 13 2022</li></ul><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY AND GUIDELINES </strong> </p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For participation with a scholarship, the Training School is primarily (but not exclusively) aimed at early stage doctoral researchers and research-inclined students enrolled full-time in an advanced educational programme. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Eligible candidates have to comply with the COST Vademecum (<a href="https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2021/04/Vademecum-28-April-2021.pdf" class="">https://www.cost.eu/uploads/2021/04/Vademecum-28-April-2021.pdf</a>), i.e., they shall be affiliated to, an academic institution, organisation or company which has within its remit a clear association with performing research and is from a COST Full Member, a COST Cooperating Member country, or a Near Neighbour Country (NNC) (<a href="https://www.cost.eu/about/members/" class="">https://www.cost.eu/about/members/</a>).</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Eligible candidates need to submit the following items in a single PDF document via Easychair:</p><ol style="max-width: 650pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">One-page CV</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Reference letter by principal research/thesis advisor, motivating the need for financial support</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">In max 300 words, Research Description (if already pursuing a thesis or similar), or else a Motivating Statement of Interest in the topics of the school. If applicable, also include at most two brief citations to your own most relevant peer-reviewed publications (do not cite unpublished or informal publications).</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Candidates who receive a Scholarship to join the Training School are expected to participate and present their research in a doctoral colloquium during the school; further guidelines about the doctoral colloquium will be provided with the letter of acceptance.</li></ol><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">SELECTION CRITERIA</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Applicants will be selected based on personal research interest and experience relevant to the school’s theme and topics. The selection committee will do their best in terms of ensuring fair and inclusive distribution with respect to gender, geographic location.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Following acceptance, applicants will have to register via the e-COST platform and add their banking and other details in order to receive a formal invitation via e-COST and be eligible for reimbursement of costs. A requirement to be reimbursed is that accepted participants officially apply to become members of Multi3Generation (details will be provided as part of the notification).</p><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">ORGANIZATION</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Training School 2022 Chairs</strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Mehul Bhatt (Örebro University, Sweden)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Albert Gatt (Utrecht University, Netherlands)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Erkut Erdem (Hacettepe University, Turkey)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal)</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Doctoral Colloquium Chairs</strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Adrian Muscat (University of Malta, Malta)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Jakob Suchan (DLR, Germany)</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class="">Publicity and Industrial Outreach Chairs</strong></p><ul style="max-width: 650pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; margin: 12px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" class=""><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Iacer Calixto (University of Netherlands, Netherlands)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">Fabio Kepler (Unbabel)</li><li style="font-size: 11pt; padding: 3px 0px; line-height: 1.4;" class="">José Guilherme Camargo de Souza (Unbabel)</li></ul><div style="margin: 0px 0pt 12px 10pt; max-width: 650pt; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 11pt; padding-bottom: 5pt; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">[Apologies for cross-postings]</i> </div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>