Papers SEARCHED: Workshop on Epistemic Extensions of Logic Programming

Wolfgang Faber and Michael Morak organize the first Workshop on Epistemic Extensions of Logic Programming, which will be held at the International Conference on Logic Programming in late September 2019 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Submit your papers by 10 July 2019!

https://www.semsys.aau.at/events/eelp2019/

Literary Translation in Ljubljana

The class of Topics in Literary Translation spent two days in Ljubljana on May 24 and 25, translating Slovenian poetry from English into German. Students from the English Department of our partner university (Univerza v Ljubljani) had translated contemporary Slovenian literature into English under the tutelage of Monika Kavalir, PhD. Upon arrival, we were welcomed by our peers and introduced to the poems, their background, and to sites in the city that carried significance for the works: statues of the authors, former places of work or of residence, toponyms, or simply locations referred to in the texts.

After a busy afternoon and evening devoted to questions of metaphors, meter and rhyme, to carefully weighed decisions on transparency and fidelity … and finally to orthography and punctuation, the trip concluded with a literary tour on the morning of the 25th that saw the original poems and the translations performed publically in the charming centre of Ljubljana.

Eventually, the English and German versions are to find their way into a brochure the Tourism Board of the City of Ljubljana is planning to publish in September 2019.

For more pictures from the excursion see: http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/100letFF/zapisi/literarne-poti-ljubljane-v-angle%C5%A1%C4%8Dini-nem%C5%A1%C4%8Dini

Text and photo by Gregor Chudoba (gregor [dot] chudoba [at] aau [dot] at)

69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Washington D.C.

The 69th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference took place from 24 – 28 May 2019 in Washington D.C., USA.

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New research project on spreadsheet errors (FWF / iDEOS)

Spreadsheets based on Microsoft Excel are omnipresent in most organizations. Errors in these spreadsheets can however be highly problematic and a number of examples exist where wrong calculations led to severe financial loss for companies. A new joint project between researchers of AAU and TU Graz will address these problems and develop novel means that help users to detect and remove errors from spreadsheets.

The research project “Interactive Spreadsheet Debugging (iDEOS)” is funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and will be led by Prof. Dietmar Jannach of the Department of Applied Informatics.

More information about debugging spreadsheets can be found in this research article.

We are looking for a doctoral student (75%) and a postdoctoral researcher (100%). Please contact Prof. Jannach in case you are interested. The project will last 3.5 years.