October 20, 2022, Xanthi, Greece

This workshop seeks to bring together emerging professionals and academics working in Human Centric Sciences and Technologies in Greece. Grounded on the principle that “Human beings should be treated as an end, not merely as a means”, our goal is to promote interdisciplinary research in the fields of Language, Interaction, Education, Culture, Archaeology, Data Science, Natural Sciences, and Technologies directly focusing on humans and their actual needs. We envision establishing a yearly forum that will stimulate fruitful discussion and boost future progress.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Technologies of language, knowledge, interaction, education, and culture with an emphasis on the Greek language and culture.

• Advanced computational systems with applications targeting society and real economy.

• Acceleration of the development of language and knowledge technologies in Greece, to reduce the digital divide between Greek and widely used languages internationally.

• Designing, developing, operating, maintaining, supporting and enhancing infrastructures and repositories of digital resources with an emphasis on the Greek language.

• Multidimensional digitization, representation and management of cultural objects, collections, monuments and places in Greece.

• Implementing technologies of information and knowledge processing on text studies, language analyses and recordings, works of art, excavation data, monuments, etc., especially for Greece.

• Transfer of current Natural Sciences and technology research results to develop new methods and applications in the fields of Cultural Sciences, Agriculture, and Food Production in Greece.

• Technological innovations and interventions of high added value to cater for current issues and needs in the fields of culture and education.

• Translingual and multilingual research and development of advanced technologies for interlingual communication.

• Innovative information mining from texts, speech, multimedia, audiovisual material and multimodal and multisensory data flows.

• Computational multimodal dialogue models, multimodal information flows in interactive environments, cognitive and computational models dealing with human interaction and communication as well as human-machine communication.

• Resources and tools to digitally support people with disabilities and other populations who still lack guaranteed, equal and full access to digital networks and applications.

• Educational technology with an emphasis on language education and lifelong learning and training by use of innovative technologies.

• Detection, assessment, and remedy of oral and written language disabilities and learning disabilities in children and adults.