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"As I've mentioned before, I'm working (with a group of other volunteers) on producing a Local Place Plan for Auchencairn, and, in the process of doing that, we're using the Place Standard Tool. Data from the Place Standard Tool is delivered as an unwieldy CSV file with 53 columns, most of which contain narrative data.
This is pretty hard to analyse... so I've written a tool to automate summarising the data. And, actually, I'm quite pleased with it." -- m…

Place Standard Tool Summariser: Full Test Run

My morning so far:
- Essential system is not working, opened support ticket.
- Two hours later still no change.
- Called service desk: "Yes we assigned the ticket to the 2nd level"
- Checked ticket queue: "Priority 4: Low"
- Called service desk "Tell the 2nd level guys if they don't make this work before lunch we're coming over and confiscate every Switch 2 we find!"

A quick reminder: The Standard Ticket sale for Berlin Buzzwords 2025 ends on Monday, June 9th!
If you're planning to attend in person from June 15-17, make sure to purchase your ticket before the deadline. Last Minute Tickets will be available afterwards at a higher rate.
Get ready for the conference – buy your ticket now: h…

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Join us for two days of exciting talks, workshops and discussions, and of course our barcamp on Sunday! Berlin Buzzwords will take place as a hybrid conference online and in our venue Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.

Locating Risk: Task Designers and the Challenge of Risk Disclosure in RAI Content Work
Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Laura Dabbish, Jina Suh, Hong Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24246

Locating Risk: Task Designers and the Challenge of Risk Disclosure in RAI Content Work
As AI systems are increasingly tested and deployed in open-ended and high-stakes domains, crowd workers are often tasked with responsible AI (RAI) content work. These tasks include labeling violent content, moderating disturbing text, or simulating harmful behavior for red teaming exercises to shape AI system behaviors. While prior efforts have highlighted the risks to worker well-being associated with RAI content work, far less attention has been paid to how these risks are communicated to wor…

Better Late than Never: the Complexity of Arrangements of Polyhedra
Boris Aronov, Sang Won Bae, Sergio Cabello, Otfried Cheong, David Eppstein, Christian Knauer, Raimund Seidel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03960

Better Late than Never: the Complexity of Arrangements of Polyhedra
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the subdivision of $\mathbb{R}^d$ induced by $m$ convex polyhedra having $n$ facets in total. We prove that $\mathcal{A}$ has combinatorial complexity $O(m^{\lceil d/2 \rceil} n^{\lfloor d/2 \rfloor})$ and that this bound is tight. The bound is mentioned several times in the literature, but no proof for arbitrary dimension has been published before.

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
Ibrahim Al Azher, Miftahul Jannat Mokarrama, Zhishuai Guo, Sagnik Ray Choudhury, Hamed Alhoori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18207

BAGELS: Benchmarking the Automated Generation and Extraction of Limitations from Scholarly Text
In scientific research, limitations refer to the shortcomings, constraints, or weaknesses within a study. Transparent reporting of such limitations can enhance the quality and reproducibility of research and improve public trust in science. However, authors often a) underreport them in the paper text and b) use hedging strategies to satisfy editorial requirements at the cost of readers' clarity and confidence. This underreporting behavior, along with an explosion in the number of publications, …