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Call For Volunteers - EMNLP 2022
by Wajdi Zaghouani 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

We seek a limited number of student volunteers for the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022), for both online and in-person versions. In exchange for one full day equivalent of work, students receive free registration to the main conference. Workshops and tutorials are not included and must be paid for by the student. The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts, and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to the conference events. Tasks will include assisting at the registration desk, stuffing delegate packs, helping to maintain social media (mainly Twitter) and providing assistance for conference events including tutorials, the main conference, and workshops, for either online or in-person versions. Webpage: https://2022.emnlp.org/volunteers Important Dates Application deadline: October 24th Notification of acceptance: November 9th Submission Procedure Applicants for either the Student Volunteer Program or the Student Scholarship Program must be full-time students and should submit the application form below where we ask a few questions and a one-page CV Application form: https://forms.gle/cwvq88ohKtp5t88z6 Contact Details Student Volunteers Chairs : emnlp2022.volunteers(a)gmail.com ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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Lingua Custodia is hiring an NLP researcher
by François Portet 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

***The company - Lingua Custodia*** Lingua Custodia is a Fintech company leader in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Finance. It was created in 2011 by finance professionals to initially offer specialised machine translation. Leveraging its state-of-the-art NLP expertise, the company now offers a growing range of applications in addition to its initial Machine translation offering: Speech-to-Text automation, Document classification, Linguistic data extraction from unstructured documents, Mass web crawling and data collection, ... and achieves superior quality thanks to highly domain-focused machine learning algorithms. Its cutting-edge technology has been regularly rewarded and recognised by both the industry and clients: Investment houses, custody or investment banks, private banks, financial divisions within major corporations and service providers for financial institutions. Lingua Custodia’s team is composed of a diversified mix of profiles, strongly skilled in their area of expertise, all committed to our entrepreneurial adventure. But what we value the most at Lingua Custodia are soft skills: Team spirit, trustfulness, open-minded thinking, enthusiasm, freedom to try new ideas or practices ***Responsibilities*** The NLP researcher will be part of the R&D team. He/she will design and implement experiments in the field of Neural Machine Translation, which will be reported in scientific, technical publications and demonstrators at international conferences (WMT, EAMT, ACL, EMNLP). Research activities relate mainly to the following topics: • Automatic data extraction and cleaning methods • Bilingual Terminology induction from monolingual datay • Terminology control in Neural Machine Translation to ensure the reliable translation of specific entities • Modelling of source sentence coverage during translation • Document-level Machine Translation • Machine Translation evaluation ***Qualifications*** • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing or any related fields. • Strong track record of successful implementations and publications in Natural Language Processing or Machine Learning. • Experience in Linux environment: Bash scripting. • Proficiency in Python • Proficiency in at least one neural framework: TensorFlow, Pytorch, etc • Bilingual or high proficiency in French ***Benefits*** • Friendly start-up environment • Laptop • Possibility to work remotely • Health insurance • Lunch vouchers ***Contact*** Applications are expected by email: hr(a)linguacustodia.com Please, specify the position name in subject field. thanks in advance, Raheel Qader Head of R&D raheel.qader(a)linguacustodia.com <mailto:jingshu.liu@linguacustodia.com> __ *Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Finance*_ _ _*www.linguacustodia.finance* <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.linguacustodia.fina…>_ *France **-**Luxembourg* * * /This message and its attachment contain information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of Lingua Custodia. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, use or rely on the information contained in this email. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message./

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Search Solutions 2022: Registration open + List of Confirmed speakers
by Udo Kruschwitz 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

Search Solutions 2022 ------------------------------ Weds 23 November 10:00 - 18:00 https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual forum focused on practitioner issues and latest innovations in the area of Search and Information Retrieval. The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (Wednesday 23 November) * Amy Walduck (State Library of Queensland) “The Topography of Searching: Visualising search data“ * Brammert Ottens (Spotify) “Finding the Right Audio Content for You” * Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) “The Futures of Systematic Searching” * Filip Radlinski (Google) "Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation" * Gavin Moore & Andrew Doyle (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust) “A Programmable Search – A Solution to Finding Guidelines and Patient Information?” * Julien Massiera & Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) “Combining Spacy with Datafari Community Edition to enable semantic Enterprise Search” * Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg) “Taking Question Answering from Research Prototype to Product” * Natasha den Dekker (LexisNexis) “How to conduct empathetic user research to test the search experience of users?” * Phil Lewis (Pureinsights) “Practical Applications of Knowledge Graphs and AI in Search” TUTORIALS (Tuesday 22 November) Tutorial 1 – Full day IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments * Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow), Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa) Tutorial 2 – AM Approaching Neural Search with Apache Solr and Open-source technologies * Alessandro Benedetti (CEO @ Sease Ltd, Apache Lucene/Solr Committer, Apache Solr PMC Member) Tutorial 3 – PM Simplifying NLP researchers work with Datafari Open Source * Julien Massiera (France Labs), Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) Tutorial 4 – Full Day Diverse Approaches to Systematic Searching * Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/more/about-us/hire-our-london-office/ REGISTRATION https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2022-inc-tutorials-informat… Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Tutorials are payable separately. The registration fees for tutorials are as follows: * BCS member rate: £80 * Non-member rate: £95 * Students: £65 Organisers * Ingo Frommholz * Frank Hopfgartner * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Martin White * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) Contact For further details, contact irsg(a)bcs.org.uk

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Postdoc (2 years): Deep contextual language modeling for protein sequences
by olivier.ferret＠cea.fr 11 Oct '22

11 Oct '22

CEA-List, a research institute of Paris-Saclay University, is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to join its laboratory of semantic analysis of texts and images. In the context of the DeepGenSeq project, you will integrate an interdisciplinary team aiming to move closer to the goal of predictive and generative artificial intelligence for biology by exploiting deep contextual language models of biological sequences, whose representations generalize to several applications like the prediction of mutational effects. BACKGROUND Exponential growth in sequencing throughput together with the sampling of natural (uncultured) populations are providing a deeper view of the diversity of proteins sequences across the tree of life. Proteins are molecular engines sustaining cellular life and the unobserved determinants of their structure and function are encoded in the distribution of observed natural sequences. Therefore, such vast amounts of (unlabelled) sequences provide evolutionary data that can form the ground for unsupervised learning of predictive and generative models of biological function. Our focus here will be to train high-capacity Transformer-based language models on sequence data, in a way analogous to what is done in natural language understanding, where the semantics of words is determined from the contexts in which they appear in sentences. Intrinsic organizing principles captured in the resulting representations can then be applied in transfer learning settings to different prediction sub-tasks using limited experimental data, like the effect of sequence variation on function. Following promising recent results, we plan to also explore zero-shot inference with no additional training and/or supervision from experimental data. This project will be an excellent opportunity for a candidate who is looking to contribute to cutting-edge research and to train with experts in the field. We are seeking a detail-oriented computer scientist and problem solver passionate in science. RESPONSIBILITIES * Tune and optimize existing unsupervised transformer-based language models for protein sequences. * Develop and optimize code and machine learning algorithms for predictive models. * Integrate and analyze large data volumes. * Interact continuously with scientists in an interdisciplinary team. REQUIREMENTS * Ph.D. or M.Sc. in a quantitative discipline, e.g. Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, Physics or a closely related discipline. * Experience with Python, open-source software libraries for machine learning and Linux (file systems, shell, hardware/software monitoring, etc). * Strong mathematical background and analytical skills. * Effective organizational skills, e.g. the ability to prioritize work and contribute to the planning of a program of scientific research. * Demonstrated interpersonal skills including both the ability to work independently and perform collaborative research in an interdisciplinary team environment. * Good oral and written communication skills. Preferred: Previous experience with transformer-based techniques for NLP pre-training and unsupervised transformer language models TERMS & COMPENSATION This 2 years position is open to a range of candidates from recent college graduates to more experienced scientists (e.g. post-docs) – the chosen candidate's salary will be commensurate with their level of education, skills, and experience. LOCATION We are based on the Paris-Saclay research campus in the south of Paris. HOW TO APPLY Interested candidates should submit a resume and short cover letter to deepgenseq « at » saxifrage.saclay.cea.fr ABOUT US : About CEA-List:: https://list.cea.fr/en/ About the LASTI lab: https://kalisteo.cea.fr/index.php/ai/ https://kalisteo.cea.fr/index.php/textual-and-visual-semantic/ About Genoscope: https://www.genoscope.cns.fr

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Software developer part time 80%
by Dominik Schlechtweg 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

As part of the international research project CHANGE IS KEY! a position is available as of 01.01.2023 or as soon as possible thereafter as a Software Developer part-time (80%) for a limited period of 6 months. If the requirements are met, remuneration up to pay group E10 TV-L is possible. The project CHANGE IS KEY! ( https://www.changeiskey.org/ ) is funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. The project seeks to make computational linguistic methods for meaning change detection useful for research in the humanities and social sciences. The software developer is developing the DURel annotation tool ( https://durel.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/ ) with the following tasks in particular: * maintenance * bug fixing * further development of the functions, e.g. - implementation of computational annotation bots - data statistics and visualization - data upload - optimized data sampling - interactive tutorials Requirements profile: * Completed university education (at least bachelor's level) in software development/computer science * Advanced programming knowledge in Python, Java, SQL, SpringBoot Knowledge in machine learning, NLP and semantic language modeling is furthermore an advantage. Your application: If you are interested, please send us your complete application in the form of a PDF file by 1.11.2022 exclusively via email to Mr. Dominik Schlechtweg (dominik.schlechtweg AT ims PUNKT uni-stuttgart PUNKT de). This should include the following documents: Letter of motivation, CV, references, contact details of at least one reference. The University of Stuttgart would like to increase the number of women in the scientific field. Therefore, women are explicitly encouraged to apply. Severely disabled persons will be given priority in case of equal suitability. We would like to point out that the submission of the application constitutes consent under data protection law for us to process your application-related data. For more information on the legal basis and use of data in accordance with Art. 13 DS-GVO, please visit https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/datenschutz/bewerbung/. We look forward to receiving your application!

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The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
by Kilian Evang 09 Oct '22

09 Oct '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submission deadline: Nov 1st, 2022 The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. VENUE The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. SUBMISSION INFORMATION TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than TLT at the discretion of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 1st, 2022 Reviews Due: December 10th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 9th, 2023 Final version of papers due: January 28th, 2023 GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023 TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023 GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/

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(Reminder) CfP: "Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges", Special Issue, IJAIED
by Mamoru Komachi 08 Oct '22

08 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, This is a gentle reminder for the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) a Special Issue (SI) titled: “Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges” The SI will have a semi-open call where we will have a mandatory initial extended abstract submission (1000 words max) that shall be submitted to the guest editors <ijaied.nlp.mlw(a)gmail.com <mailto:ijaied.nlp.mlw@gmail.com>> by October 15, 2022. Find the full description and CFP at: https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128 <https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128> Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the guest editors if you have any questions. Thank you, The guest editors: Giora Alexandron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel<giora.alexandron(a)weizmann.ac.il <mailto:giora.alexandron@weizmann.ac.il>> Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA<bbeigmanklebanov(a)ets.org <mailto:bbeigmanklebanov@ets.org>> Mamoru Komachi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan <komachi(a)tmu.ac.jp <mailto:komachi@tmu.ac.jp>> Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany <torsten.zesch(a)fernuni-hagen.de <mailto:torsten.zesch@fernuni-hagen.de>>

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Second Call for Participation: ValueEval @ SemEval'23
by Milad Alshomary 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Dear All, [Apologies for cross posting] We would like to invite you again to participate in ValueEval, the shared task on Human Value Detection, organized as part of SemEval'23 and Touché'23. https://valueeval.webis.de Human values have been studied in the social sciences (Schwartz, 1994) and in formal argumentation (Bench-Capon, 2003) for decades. Within computational linguistics, not much research exists, though human values can provide context for categorizing, comparing, and evaluating argumentative statements. Use cases of automated value detection systems are, e.g.: argument strength assessment, audience-based argument generation and selection, ethical discussion overview, large- scale social science research. The ValueEval task is: "Given a textual argument and a human value category, classify whether or not the argument draws on that category." See our ACL paper [1] and the task website (with 4 minute explanation video) for the details. Important Dates: - In November, 2022: Run submission opens. - December 9, 2022: Early-bird run submission closes. - January 24, 2023: Run submission closes. - January 31, 2023: Run evaluation results out. - In February 2023: Paper submission deadline. - In March 2023: Paper notification. - In April 2023: Camera-ready paper submission deadline. - In Summer 2023: SemEval Workshop (co-located with a major NLP conference). Helpful links: - Register here: https://forms.gle/ib72JUtsxhb3ZMNw5 - Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/valueeval - Task website: https://valueeval.webis.de - Twitter: https://twitter.com/ValueEval - Video Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQ4LELCCY4&ab_channel=webis Task organizers: Johannes Kiesel, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno Stein Kind Regards, Milad Alshomary [1] https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.306/ -- Milad Alshomary, M.Sc. Computational Social Science Paderborn University Zukunftsmeile 2 33102 Paderborn Germany Office A.03.03 Phone (+49) (0) 5251 60-6587 E-Mail milad.alshomary(a)uni-paderborn.de

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European Language Equality: Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects
by Georg Rehm 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

The European Language Equality <https://european-language-equality.eu/> (ELE) initiative launched an Open Call for SRIA Contribution Projects <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. TOPICS The SRIA contribution projects are meant to provide meaningful, so far missing, convincing and compelling input for the Strategic Agenda and Roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030 developed by the ELE EU project. The projects should provide defined use cases and feasibility studies for concrete application scenarios in one of the following ten topics: 1. Data sets for more robust speech technology 2. Study of language coverage for text mining and natural language understanding in key European industrial sectors 3. Legal Assessment 4. General NLP/LT/AI Landscaping 5. General NLP/LT Domains 6. Analysis of AI and LT in European news media 7. Computing facilities for LT 8. Demonstrably Greener Models of MT 9. Survey of the use of LT in the hospital sector 10. Basic LAnguage Resource Kit (BLARK) (re)definition TIMELINE Publication of the call: 29 September 2022 Submission deadline: 29 November 2022 (23:59 CET) Evaluation and selection of the submitted proposals: December 2022 Contract signing and projects start: December 2022 – January 2023 Project duration: 2-3 months ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS * Research organisations (including but not limited to higher education organisations and independent research organisations), NGOs, incorporated associations and companies * Legally established in EU member states * One organisation per project only (mono-beneficiary projects) FUNDING * €185,000 allocated for the call * maximum amount of eligible costs per single project: €25,000, funding rate: 90% * financial support will be provided in the form of a lump sum after completing all project activities HOW TO APPLY Apply via the open call submission platform <https://opencall.european-language-equality.eu/>, follow the Call documentation and related annexes on the open call website <https://european-language-equality.eu/open-call/>. CONTACT Open Call management team: open-call(a)european-language-equality.eu -- Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow <http://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 – Mobile: +49 173 2735829 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Metaphor Annotated Bible?
by Maria Berger 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Hello everyone, I am currently working on transfering approaches of metaphor identification from English to German. I was wondering whether there is a freely-available metaphor-annotated Bible corpus out there. I am pretty sure there are a lot rather special datasets. What I basically am looking for is a typical flat-annotated Bible with words/phrases that are figurative in consent. I found the Lexham Figuratative Language of the NT Dataset (2016) but that seems to come with a special software only. I am grateful for any hint. Best, Maria -- Dr. rer. nat. Maria Berger Room GB 5/147 German Department Ruhr University Bochum Universitätsstr. 150 44780 Bochum, Germany

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