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The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning鈥擭avigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses:
Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Classification (OGWiC)
Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Ranking (DisWiC)
The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it).
Call for Papers:
LINGUISTICS
- Phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes in languages
- Longitudinal studies on language shift and maintenance
- Sociolinguistic factors influencing language choice, code-switching, and language mixing
- Educational challenges and strategies for teaching in multilingual environments
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
- The role of cultural, religious, and social institutions in maintaining heritage languages
- The use of technology, social media, and d
2nd Call for Papers:
Due to unexpected (but happy) circunstances, the International Workshop on Romance SE/SI Constructions has been postponed to January 22-23, 2026. The new deadline for submissions is October 10, 2025.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: We invite abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes of discussion, that address any aspect of Romance SE/SI constructions. Contributions examining variation among Romance languages, data from less studied varieties, contexts that r
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Organizers: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester), Marina Terkourafi (Leiden)
The idea that messages encoded in speakers' utterances are subsequently decoded by hearers has long been abandoned within pragmatics in favor of an inferential model which views meaning derivation as an interactional process to which the subjectivities, emotions, and cognitive environments of both speakers and hearers (as well as eventual third parties) actively take part. This inferential approach
Call for Papers:
We invite researchers from all pertinent disciplines to submit abstracts for 20 minute presentations (in German or English). Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 500 words (plus examples and references). Please e-mail your abstract to variationslinguistik.lid.fk15@tu-dortmund.de.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 November 2024
Notification of acceptance: 13 December 2024
Registration for the conference: 13 December 2024 鈥 04 May 2025
Conference fee: t
Hello! I am recruiting advanced speakers of Mandarin (L1 English). Participants should have completed 302-level university coursework or above in Mandarin Chinese. More requirements can be found here:
https://cla.purdue.edu/english/francislab/recruitment/
The experiment involves computer-based tasks and takes place over Zoom. Participants are compensated via an major electronic payment app of their choice.
Please contact sheuv@purdue.edu if you are interested. A million thanks, linguist frien
2nd Call for Papers:
Expressivity: Variation and Change (Workshop at DGfS 2025)
This workshop aims at filling this gap by encouraging and bringing together research on variation and change in expressivity. Questions that may be addressed at the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:
* With respect to which parameters/aspects does the expressions of expressivity vary across languages and which aspects are rather stable (and may point towards universals regarding expressivity
The program and the abstracts of the talks can be found on this website: https://osf.io/uhq3y/
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This panel is dedicated to examining the intricacies of civil interaction on social media. Building on previous work on pragmalinguistic or interactional features which may help bring uncivil interaction back on track (see e.g. Tanskanen 2021; V谩squez 2021; Zhang et al. 2018), the panel aims to shed light on how civility is enacted and negotiated by participants in various digital communities. For the purposes of the panel, civil interaction involves exhibiting a respectful ori
Call for Papers:
We invite abstract submissions for both oral presentations (20-minute talk plus additional 10 minutes for questions and discussion) and poster presentations. We welcome abstracts from a broad field of linguistic subfields (e.g., language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/ phonology, semantics/ pragmatics, syntax) and methodologies (e.g., computational, experimental, fieldwork, theoretical).
This year there will be a special session with the theme 鈥淔eatures and their interacti
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Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
New publications:
LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack
Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts
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Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposa
We invite proposals for chapters of a peer-reviewed edited book provisionally titled "The Language of Conflict Resolution". In its broadest sense, conflict is defined by the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution as a disagreement that leads to tension within and between people. Conflict resolution is a young field of exploration and has included matters of conflict management, peace-building, third party mediation, peace-enforcement, etc. The task of conflict resolution focuses on assisting conf
There's still time to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment [teach.wikiedu.org] into your fall courses with the free support of nonprofit Wiki Education 鈥 the application deadline has been extended to September 8!
Interested in learning more? Register now for an upcoming information session [https://wikiedu.org/webinars/]. We're offering 8 session options starting this Friday, August 23 at 9 am PDT / 12 pm EDT.
Ready to apply now? To apply, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org to create your Wikipedia acc
Call for Papers:
EuroSLA 34 2025
We are inviting proposals for presentations at EuroSLA 34 to be held in Troms酶, Norway, June 25 鈥 28 2024.
We welcome submissions in all areas and approaches to the study of second, foreign or additional languages, bilingualism and multilingualism.
Academic Program
鈥 Kara Morgan-Short (University of Illinois)
鈥 Theres Gr眉ter (University of Hawaii)
鈥 Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster University)
鈥 Bernadette O鈥橰ourke (University of Glasgow)
Doctoral Workshop an
Call for Papers:
Contributions are invited across a wide range of diverse aspects of figurativeness in thought and in various semiotic modes. Diversity is intended to comprise modes of figurative enactment, discourses and representations of figurative meaning making, methods of analyses, theoretical approaches and applications, topics of investigation, sources and actors of figurativeness, as well as recipients of figurative processes.
Some suggested areas of research on figurative thought, la
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We especially encourage proposals that center language and transcultural learning. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Disruptive and emerging technologies in language education
Inclusive CALL and the role of language teachers and learners
Opportunities and challenges in augmented, mixed, and virtual realities
Generative AI and human-computer interaction for students and teachers
Technology in heritage and community language learning
Digital literacies and digital
Dear colleagues,
In response to a posting from January 2022, in which a debate on possible structural bias in German dialectology and its effects on groups of speakers, a new publication has been offered in open access. The context to this debate, a "Gelehrtenstreit" or "Germanistikstreit", can be found here: https://linguistlist.org/issues/33.521/ .
This new publication is based on archival work and highlights connections between the past and the present via concepts, definitions and linguist
It is with great sadness that I convey the news that Manfred Bierwisch died on July 31, 2024. Manfred Bierwisch has contributed to many fields in linguistics and the study of language, often in groundbreaking ways. He did this, in the first part of his professional life, from a very difficult professional position.
The Leibniz-Zentrum f眉r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) provides a memorial page about Manfred with the option to leave written memories of Manfred Bierwisch in a book of condole
The Department of English (Section: Linguistics) invites applications for a PhD fellowship (100%) commencing on February 1st, 2025 (or later). The position is part of a Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Doctoral Network funded by the European Commission that investigates Spatial Communication and Ageing across Languages (SCALA). The project at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena is concerned with 鈥淓gocentric spatial language across ages and generations鈥. For more information on the position and the netw
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in phonology and phonetics, with expertise in areas such as, but not limited to, bilingual phonology, second language acquisition of phonology and phonetics, sociophonetics, and computational phonology, alongside a commitment to teaching theoretical phonology. Our department is dedicated to creating a vibrant and inclusive academic environ