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UMRs in Boston Summer School 鈥 1st Call for Applications
June 9-13, 2025
Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
We invite applications for a five-day summer school on Uniform Meaning Representations (UMR).
Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded
2024. iii, 120 pp.
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Domain dichotomy and sociolinguistic inequality in Philippine museum spaces: Evidence from the Linguistic Landscape
Nicko Enrique L. Manalastas | pp.鈥223鈥252
[Japanese] toilets are not garbage cans: Discriminatory multilingual signage in the Linguistic Landscape of Japan
Keolakawai K.G. Spencer | pp.鈥253鈥272
Bergen? A semiotic landscape analysis of arrival in Bergen, Norway
Susanne Mohr | pp.鈥273鈥301
Modeling Linguistic Landscapes: A compariso
2024. iii, 145 pp.
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Cognitive processes and strategies of bilingual students when attempting assessments in an L2
Xing San Teng, Janet Hsiao & Yuen Yi Lo | pp.鈥135鈥161
The impact of adjunct instruction on EFL academic writing at university
Helena Roquet Pug猫s, Noelia Navarro Gil & Florentina Nicol谩s-Conesa | pp.鈥162鈥191
Fluctuating cognitive benefits in children attending early bilingual immersive instruction
Cristina-Anca Barbu, Sophie Gillet & Martine Poncelet |
2024. iii, 184 pp.
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They were not radical, even when they committed that: An appraisal-driven discourse analysis of feelings and attitudes towards the 17-A terrorist cell in Barcelona
Miguel-脕ngel Ben铆tez-Castro, Encarnaci贸n Hidalgo-Tenorio, Katie Jane Patterson, Manuel Moyano & Irene Gonz谩lez | pp.鈥139鈥170
The expression of hate speech against Afro-descendant, Roma, and LGBTQ+ communities in YouTube comments
Paula Carvalho, Danielle Caled, Cl谩udia Silva, Fernando
2023. iii, 173 pp.
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Lexical and contextual emotional valence in foreign language vocabulary retention: An experimental study and the Deep Epistemic Emotion Hypothesis
Yu Kanazawa | pp.鈥339鈥365
Eye-voice and finger-voice spans in adults鈥 oral reading of connected texts : Implications for reading research and assessment
Andrea Nadalini, Claudia Marzi, Marcello Ferro, Loukia Taxitari, Alessandro Lento, Davide Crepaldi & Vito Pirrelli | pp.鈥366鈥400
Bilingual and monol
2024. v, 138 pp.
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Introduction: Translanguaging and multimodality for Chinese discourse analysis in the context of teaching and learning
Qi Zhang | pp.鈥155鈥163
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Digital multimodal composing as a translanguaging space: Understanding students鈥 initial experiences and challenges
Danping Wang | pp.鈥164鈥187
Co-constructing translanguaging space to facilitate participation in a novice CFL classroom
Jiaxin Tian | pp.鈥188鈥217
Translanguaging learning strategies (TLS): A n
Greetings, Linguists!
The October 2024 issue of Speculative Grammarian鈥攖he premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics鈥攊s now available online for your browsing pleasure.
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The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including our unprecedented endorsement for president, an info
2nd Call for Papers:
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Les langues de sp茅cialit茅 (LSP), que l鈥檕n peut d茅finir largement comme les usages sp茅cialis茅s de la langue par une communaut茅 dans un domaine particulier, font partie int茅grante de la culture populaire. Selon Johns (1994, p. 4), les discours 茅crits et oraux des langues de sp茅cialit茅 peuvent 锚tre vus comme des 芦 art茅facts culturels 禄, voire des 芦 genres servant des objectifs de communication au sein de groupes d鈥檌ndividus qui se consid猫rent comme apparten
November 16 (Sat)
9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:35 Opening Remarks
9:35-10:35 (Keynote Speech) "On the subject of subject depictives and subject-oriented adverbials"
Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Budapest & Centre of Linguistics of the
University of Lisbon)
(10 minute break)
10:45-11:20
Call for Papers:
We invite 100-word abstracts until October 25, 2024. Please send your abstract to Diogo Pinheiro (diogopinheiro@letras.ufrj.br). We will let you know whether we can incorporate your abstract in the proposed theme session by the end of October. If our theme session is accepted, we will ask authors of provisionally accepted abstracts to submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) via the conference submission system until January 15th. The extended abstract will then be subject
Call for Papers:
Working languages: French and English
Abstracts (1 page) should be sent to pierre-yves.modicom (at) univ-lyon3.fr and clea.patin (at) univ-lyon3.fr by January 15th.
The full call can be found under: https://minimamodica.wordpress.com/tea/
or: https://cel.univ-lyon3.fr/cel-colloque-transferts-materiels-discursifs-et-linguistiques-dans-le-domaine-du-the-de-1856-a-nos-jours
For more information, please visit the conference link below.
Call for Papers:
Translating the Caribbean
Heterolingualism is one of the defining characteristics of literature in the Caribbean, as authors switch between languages and language varieties in unique and organic ways. The Caribbean region in fact constitutes one of the world鈥檚 most extensive and most varied sites of creolization. Caribbean creoles have become important objects of study in linguistics, literary and postcolonial studies, and translation studies.
Due to the heterolingual nature o
Call for Papers:
Clause linkage in Iranian languages is a fascinating topic. It includes often seemingly inconsistent systems of clause linking strategies with competing right and left branching patterns, sometimes allowing for several interpretations. We welcome papers that address clause linking in Old, Middle, and New Iranian languages and/or in languages from language families that are in contact with Iranian, e.g. Turkic, Semitic, and Indo-Aryan languages. The presentations can take a synt
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Faculty
Los Angeles, California
The Department of Psychology鈥檚 Brain and Cognitive Science area within the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. We are particularly interested in candidates with a computational approach to language research.
The study of language and higher order cognition is undergoing rapid transformation, fuel
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS for REGULAR SESSION (and SPECIAL SESSION)
Submission deadline (POSTPONED): October 14, 2024
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8
We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that:
(i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused
Call for Papers:
SPECIAL THEME SESSION - BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER - DL POSTPONED to OCT. 14, 2024
In addition to the main session, the ComputEL-8 workshop invites self-identified submissions to a special themed session on 鈥淏uilding Tools Together鈥, oriented toward amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization.
We invite presentations that: (1) describe coll
Call for Papers:
Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (excluding references) and should clearly state research question(s), approach, data, method, and (expected) results. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts if at least one paper is co鈥恆uthored.
Anonymised submissions should be sent to conference organisers at this email: icame46@flf.vu.lt
鈥 Full paper: 20 + 10 mins discussion
鈥 Short paper/Work鈥恑n鈥恜rogress report: 10 + 5 mins discussion
鈥 Software demonstration: 20 + 10 mi
Call for Papers:
Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models
We are pleased to invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL), to be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia.
About the Workshop:
This workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to b
Call for Papers:
Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages (FASAL) is the main North American venue dedicated to the presentation and discussion of linguistic research on South Asian languages. We welcome submissions that draw on data from South Asian languages (including Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Tibeto-Burman languages) using a wide range of methodologies.
Submissions on under-researched and endangered South Asian languages, submissions from minority groups, and submissions