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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · 6d

Join our Computational Social Science department at GESIS! PhD position in Research Software Engineering!

Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 6d

📢 We're hiring a Doctoral Student in Research Software Engineering for Digital Behavioral Data!
Work at the intersection of computer science and social science, develop innovative tools, and pursue your doctoral degree with us.

👉 Apply here: www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Only 4 days left to submit tho the Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025! identity-aware-ai.github.io

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 18

Deadline extended to August 29!!! Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025! identity-aware-ai.github.io

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Identity-Aware AI workhop at #ECAI2025, in beautiful Bologna! Submit by Aug 22: identity-aware-ai.github.io Organized by:
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social Soda Marem Lo, Neele Falk, @gingerinai.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @a-lauscher.bsky.social and myself!

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 20

If you want to nominate yourself to be the organizer of the next Argument Mining workshop @argminingorg.bsky.social‬, fill in this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: Aug 22nd 13.00 CEST!

ArgMining 2026 Workshop Organising Committee Application

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 18

Deadline extended to August 29!!! Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025! identity-aware-ai.github.io

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Identity-Aware AI workhop at #ECAI2025, in beautiful Bologna! Submit by Aug 22: identity-aware-ai.github.io Organized by:
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social Soda Marem Lo, Neele Falk, @gingerinai.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @a-lauscher.bsky.social and myself!

Data Science Hamburg Group @ds-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔

We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.

Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Aug 7

Identity-Aware AI workhop at #ECAI2025, in beautiful Bologna! Submit by Aug 22: identity-aware-ai.github.io Organized by:
@pranav-nlp.bsky.social Soda Marem Lo, Neele Falk, @gingerinai.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social @a-lauscher.bsky.social and myself!

Data Science Hamburg Group @ds-hamburg.bsky.social · Jul 29

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔

We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.

Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Identity-Aware AI Workshop announcement. Co-located with ECAI 2025 in Bologna on October 25, with submission deadline August 22. Topics include: Methods for effective, fair, and inclusive AI; Critiques of AI on the exclusion of identities; Methods for detecting and controlling bias; Perspectivist approaches to AI. Submission types: Long papers (8 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Extended abstracts, Mixed-media submissions (videos, blogs, codebase, artworks). For details, visit: identity-aware-ai.github.io

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jul 31

Invited talk by @andreasvlachos.bsky.social on Fact Checking as a Conversation happening now

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jul 31

Still at #ACL2025? Come to hall B for the Argument Mining workshop! @argminingorg.bsky.social One invited talk, one panel with four great interdisciplinary speakers, two shared tasks, tons of talks and posters, just in one day!

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jul 28

#ACL2025, interested in disagreements, morals, values? Come to boot 153 now :)

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just 5 days left to submit a paper or abstract to the CPSS workshop at KONVENS 2025!

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 10

Deadline extension! We decided to extend the deadline for CPSS #KONVENS2025 to June 20th! We hope to receive many of your archival and non archival submissions :)

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 1

Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 10

Deadline extension! We decided to extend the deadline for CPSS #KONVENS2025 to June 20th! We hope to receive many of your archival and non archival submissions :)

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 1

Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 19

Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · Jun 1

Deadline approaching! Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences #KONVENS2025, archival long-short papers (acl anthology) & non-archival abstracts and phd project descriptions (get feedback from a great community!) ! Deadline: June 13th.

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 19

Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 12

Interested in the application of NLP to research questions form the Political and Social Sciences? This is the workshop for you! CPSS at #KONVENS2025 cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... . Archival papers in the ACL anthology, deadline: June 13th!

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 22

Come work in our Computational Social Science department led by @clauwa.bsky.social and @sebstier.bsky.social ! Team lead position, tenure track! @gesis.org

GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · May 22

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy
Our Team Digital Society Observatory in #Cologne is looking for a #SeniorResearcher & #TeamLeader in Computational Social Science #CSS (Salary group 15 TV-L, working time 100%, initially for four years with possible tenure):

gesis.jobs.personio....

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 19

Non-archival ***extended abstracts*** to describe work in progress and ***phd project descriptions*** that will be presented in a poster session: don't lose the opportunity to get feedback from a great and friendly community!

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 19

Remember the deadline for the CPSS (Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences) #KONVENS2025 is approaching! And also: besides archival submissions which will appear in the ACL anthology, we also have ...

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 12

Interested in the application of NLP to research questions form the Political and Social Sciences? This is the workshop for you! CPSS at #KONVENS2025 cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... . Archival papers in the ACL anthology, deadline: June 13th!

CPSS-2025

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 16

Great news! "Mining the uncertainty patterns of humans and models in the annotation of moral foundations and human values" By Neele Falk and myself, to appear at #ACL2025 @aclmeeting.bsky.social . See you in Vienna :)

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 12

Interested in the application of NLP to research questions form the Political and Social Sciences? This is the workshop for you! CPSS at #KONVENS2025 cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf... . Archival papers in the ACL anthology, deadline: June 13th!

CPSS-2025

cpss-sig.github.io

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 7

Great lecturers, great topic!

GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · May 7

Unlock the power of large language models for your research!
Join this #GESISworkshop with Julia Romberg, @vigneshwaran-s.bsky.social, and @mmmaurer.bsky.social to explore adapters — an efficient alternative to fine-tuning your models.

🔗 Book now ➡️ t1p.de/adapters-lig...

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GESIS Workshop
Adapters: Lightweight Machine Learning for Social Science Research
02 to 04 June 2025 | Hybrid (Cologne | Online)
Julia Romberg, Vigneshwaran Shankaran, Maximilian Maurer (all GESIS)

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 6

#NAACL2025 proceedings: great collaboration with @myrthereuver.bsky.social‬ @indiiigo.bsky.social, @matteo-mls.bsky.social on the interactions between LLMs and SocSci experts for sexism detection

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 6

Title: "It Is Not Only the Negative that Deserves Attention! Understanding, Generation & Evaluation of (Positive) Moderation"

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 6

Joint work with Neele Falk, Carlotta Quensel, and Eva Maria Vecchi

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 6

#NAACL2025 virtual conference today! Iman Jundi will present our work on the generation of positive moderation Curious what it is? Drop by or read our paper! aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l... @ims-stuttgart.bsky.social @gesis.org @hhu.de @unihannover.bsky.social

aclanthology.org

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 5

Deadline extension! By the 10th of May submit an abstract and join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Methods" workshop at #ICWSM

Christopher Klamm 🌱 @cklamm.bsky.social · Apr 17

🕵️‍♀️ Join us for the first "Validating Social Text-as-Data Method" workshop (June 23, 2025, Copenhagen) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/valista...

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 1

If you feel you have a dataset we should have found and included in the collection, reach out to us!

Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 1

Database: goofy-grouse-1da.notion.site/Database-e3e...

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Gabriella Lapesa @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social · May 1

Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...

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