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Don't miss the Cognitive Science Festival, taking place tomorrow 10am - 6pm. Join us in CS400 in the Peter Landin Building on our Mile End Campus, or online. Drop in and out throughout the day as much as you want! See the full programme for the day here: bit.ly/3DfKabJ

Looking forward to a (hybrid) get-together of QMUL CogSci and a day of short talks from all corners of our CogSci community - from robots to video games to computational linguistics. (with good representation of the Media and Arts Tech community, too!)

We're kicking off CogSci Fest, reuniting and seeing each others' faces again after a looong time, and learning about the research that we've done in the meantime. Join our talks & discussion via this live stream: bit.ly/3DfKabJ

Our organiser Jack Ratcliffe welcomes audience on- and offline, introducing our first speaker Nick Ballou, who talks about video game play and wellbeing. Find the full schedule of the day and join the party here bit.ly/3DfKabJ

Next up are Chathura Sooriya-Arachchi, Anna Nolda Nagele, and @azn_bbygurl introducing their research on measuring personal productivity, wearable sleep trackers and hate speech.

I am taking part in this today, via Zoom :) Lots of fun but my laptop tends to overheat so am giving it regular Zoom-free breathers.

In the current CogSciFest session, Pat Healey emphasises how important social interaction is in human life. For organising ourselves, as well as for our mental and physical health.

In the first half of the QMUL CogSci Fest, we also heard how important studying human interaction is for the design of robots.

At today's CogSci Fest, we also had our own Julian Hough, Matthew Purver and Massimo Poesio giving an overview on their research, which includes modelling behaviour on online media (in different languages), using games to study language, and improving human-machine interaction.

The first speaker of this afternoon's session is Jo Brodie, who reminds us how #scicomm is done successfully, and who helps researchers share their work publicly.

The last talk of today's CogSci Fest is by Ross Media and Arts Tech presenting her research on participatory performance & mocap tools for social stroke support.

Here's Ignacio Castro is in Bsky & Mastodon talking about some of our recent work looking at how decisions are made about how the internet works: blubrry.com/ping_podcast/8…

We recently heard the great news that our ARCIDUCA proposal on conversational agents in games has been funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council! #NLProc #MachineLearning #BigData #games #AI

#NLProc come work with us at Computational Linguistics @ QMUL, Computational Linguistics @ QMUL, we have multiple Postdoctoral openings. 2 PDRA position in embeddia and SoDeStream (sodestream.github.io) projects

Nice blog post BBC Research & Development by Computational Linguistics @ QMUL 's very own Iacopo Ghinassi - read about his work in topic segmenation #NLProc

The 26th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue will be held in Dublin, 22-24 August! Call for papers: semdial2022.github.io/?page=call#

📑new paper on the generalisability of abusive language detection models and the role of slurs and profanity in training! 💭non-abusive swearing and implicit abuse are often confusing for models. _how_ do such biases come into play? 💡open access on: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

There is still time to submit a short paper to DubDial - the 26th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue - deadline 15th of July semdial2022.github.io/?page=call#

🚨 We have an opening for a PhD student to work on claim detection for automated fact-checking. ℹ️ Includes a salary and tuition fees covered for a candidate of any nationality qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies…