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ESSLLI advanced course on iconic gesture semantics!

The ViCom project GemDiS offers the ESSLLI 2025 advanced course on the semantics of iconic gestures. This is how the AI Mistral advertises the course:
“Unravel the mysteries of non-verbal communication in our upcoming advanced course on Spatial Gesture Semantics at ESSLLI 2025! Dive into the fascinating world of manual gestures and their interaction with speech meaning. Discover how spatial semantics and AI technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of gestures. Don’t miss out on this cutting-edge exploration from July 28 to August 1!”

Student tutors for the “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” (winter semester 25 / 26)

The Institute of Computer Science is recruiting tutors for the winter semester 2025 / 2026 to assist in various courses.

The chair of Computational Humanities / Text Technology is responsible for the basic course “Programming Practical Course (PPR)” and we are particularly looking for students who have already passed the programming practical course.

There are several tutor positions available and all additional information are noted on the announcement here.

The deadline for applications is July 31, 2025 and applications can be sent to .

We look forward to receiving your application.

New publications accepted

The following publications were accepted at the related conferences:

ACM Hypertext 2025 (36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media)

Giuseppe Abrami, Daniel Bundan, Chrisowaladis Manolis and Alexander Mehler. 2025. VR-ParlExplorer: A Hypertext System for the Collaborative Interaction in Parliamentary Debate Spaces. Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 177–183.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Abrami:et:al:2025:c,
  author    = {Abrami, Giuseppe and Bundan, Daniel and Manolis, Chrisowaladis
               and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {VR-ParlExplorer: A Hypertext System for the Collaborative Interaction
               in Parliamentary Debate Spaces},
  year      = {2025},
  isbn      = {9798400715341},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address   = {New York, NY, USA},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3720553.3746672},
  doi       = {10.1145/3720553.3746672},
  abstract  = {The enhanced visualization and interaction with information in
               collaborative VR environments enabled by chatbots is currently
               rather limited. To fill this gap and create a concrete application
               that combines spatial and virtual concepts of hypertext systems
               based on the use of LLMs, we present VR-ParlExplorer as a system
               for virtualizing plenary debates that allows users to interact
               with virtual members of parliament through chatbots. VR-ParlExplorer
               is implemented as a Plugin for Va.Si.Li-Lab to enable immersion
               in the dynamics of communication in parliamentary debates. The
               paper describes the functionality of VR-ParlExplorer and discusses
               specifics of the use case it addresses.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 36th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},
  pages     = {177--183},
  numpages  = {7},
  location  = {Chicago, USA},
  series    = {HT '25},
  pdf       = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3720553.3746672}
}

KONVENS 2025 (21th Conference on Natural Language Processing)

Daniel Bundan, Giuseppe Abrami and Alexander Mehler. 2025. Multimodal Docker Unified UIMA Interface: New Horizons for Distributed Microservice-Oriented Processing of Corpora using UIMA. Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers, 257–268.
BibTeX 
@inproceedings{Bundan:Abrami:Mehler:2025,
  author    = {Bundan, Daniel and Abrami, Giuseppe and Mehler, Alexander},
  title     = {Multimodal Docker Unified {UIMA} Interface: New Horizons for Distributed
               Microservice-Oriented Processing of Corpora using {UIMA}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Natural Language Processing
               (KONVENS 2025): Long and Short Papers},
  year      = {2025},
  editor    = {Wartena, Christian and Heid, Ulrich},
  location  = {Hildesheim, Germany},
  address   = {Hannover, Germany},
  publisher = {HsH Applied Academics},
  pages     = {257--268},
  series    = {KONVENS '25},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.konvens-1.22/},
  pdf       = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.konvens-1.22.pdf},
  poster    = {https://www.texttechnologylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Poster_Multimodal_DUUI_KONVENS_2025.pdf},
  keywords  = {duui}
}