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style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Disentangled Representations</span></p></li>
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                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Differential Privacy</span></p></li>
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                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Distributed Learning</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -21.82677165354331pt;"
                aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Natural Language Processing</span></p></li>
                <ul
style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Web as Corpus and Resources </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tagging, Parsing and Document Analysis</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Discourse and Pragmatics</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Machine Translation </span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Linguistic Theories and Psycholinguistics</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -36.56692913385827pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Inference of Semantics and Information Extraction</span></p></li>
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style="border-left:solid #000000 1pt;border-right:solid #000000 1pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 1pt;border-top:solid #000000 1pt;vertical-align:top;background-color:#d0e0e3;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden;overflow-wrap:break-word;">
              <ul
style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
                <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -21.82677165354329pt;"
                aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Human-Computer Interfaces (Speech as Medium)</span></p></li>
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style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Usable Security and Privacy</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ubiquitous Computing</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pervasive Computing and Communication</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cognitive Science</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -21.82677165354329pt;"
                aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ethics & Law</span></p></li>
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style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Privacy and Data Protection</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Media and Communication</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Identity Management</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Electronic Mobile Commerce</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Data in Digital Media</span></p></li>
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                <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -21.82677165354329pt;"
                aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Digital Humanities</span></p></li>
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style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-inline-start:48px;">
                  <li dir="ltr"
style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Acceptance and Trust Studies</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">User Experience research on practice</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Co-development across disciplines</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Data-citizenship</span></p></li>
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                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Future studies</span></p></li>
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style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left: -29.48031496062991pt;"
                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Situated Ethics</span></p></li>
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                  aria-level="2"><p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"
                  role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">STS perspectives</span></p></li>
                </ul>
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    <p dir="ltr"
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:500;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submission:</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Papers intended for the SPSC Symposium should be up to eight pages of text. The length should be chosen appropriately to present the topic to an interdisciplinary community. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the </span><a
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">June 01, 2025</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Short papers (up to 4 pages excl. references)</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">submission deadline </span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:600;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">June 01, 2025</span></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'EB Garamond',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Author notification (long and short)</span></p>
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