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<body><gotpl if="salutation"></gotpl><gotpl if="my_work_phone">8th International ARDUOUS (Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems) workshop<br>----------------------------------<br>Paper Submission: May 26, 2024<br>Notification: June 24, 2024<br>Camera ready version: June 30, 2024<br>Workshop: September 24, 2024 in Wiesbaden, Germany<br>----------------------------------<br><br>Dear researchers,<br> <br>On behalf of the 8th International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems, <br>we would like to invite you to submit your contributions of full-length or short-length papers, positional papers, <br>and industry papers by the 26th of May via EasyChair for the ARDUOUS edition that is scheduled to take place at the INFORMATIK Festival 2024 (25.09 - 26.09) in Wiesbaden, Germany. <br>The workshop will be held in hybrid form.<br>This year's topics of interest include: <br> <br>- experiences in the development, validation, and sharing of data annotation protocols, both in academia and in the industry<br>- ensuring compliance with GDPR (DSGVO) and AI EU Act when annotating data<br>- human-centered and human-in-the-loop approaches to designing and deploying AI systems<br>- characterizing forms of annotation appropriate for specific sectors – for example, digital health, logistics, text mining for the digital humanities<br>- Low-resource annotation workflows<br>- Annotation metrics: inter-indexer consistency, similarity, bias, and subjectivity<br> <br>Further general annotation-related topics include but are not limited to:<br>- methods and intelligent tools for annotating data<br>- methods for standardization and normalization in annotation practices<br>- influence of interface on annotation<br>- processes of and best practices in annotating data<br>- methods towards automation of the annotation process<br>- improving and evaluating the quality of annotations<br>- beyond the labels: ontologies for semantic annotation of user data <br>- high-quality and re-usable annotation for publicly available datasets<br>- impact of annotation on a system’s performance<br>- building classifier models that are capable of dealing with multiple (noisy) annotations and/or making use of taxonomies/ontologies<br>- the potential value of incorporating modeling of the annotators into predictive models<br>- evaluating the efficacy of transfer learning via existing annotated datasets<br>- handling semantic and temporal shift and drift in the applications of annotated datasets<br> <br>For more information, please refer to our website: <a href="https://arduous.eu/" class="normal-link normal-link-url" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://arduous.eu/</a><br> <br>Thank you for considering our invitation. We are looking forward to hearing from you!<br></gotpl></body></html>