DrivenData has launched the On Top of Pasketti: Children’s Speech Recognition Challenge, which focuses on developing open, high-quality ASR models designed specifically for children’s speech. These tools have the potential to support early literacy, speech screening, assessment, and other educational and accessibility applications. A key feature of the challenge is the dataset itself: participants will work with nearly 560k transcribed utterances representing 519 hours of child speech, includ

Have you ever tried to "make eye contact" with a faceless robot to figure out what it's about to do? Join us for an exciting research project at the forefront of robotics innovation, to figure out a better way for robots to communicate with people! Robots are entering human spaces, but they are still struggling to communicate effectively with us. Whether assisting older adults, delivering goods, supporting education, or navigating busy public environments, robots must make their intentions u

As a linguist engaged extensively in fieldwork and linguistic elicitation (wordlists, paradigms, sentence frames, and more), I began to notice a recurring pattern: most of us prepare our elicitation materials in spreadsheets. That observation led to a simple question: Why not let the spreadsheet become the elicitation sheet? From that idea, I developed Elisheet — a Google Sheets–based script designed to support structured linguistic elicitation and audio data collection directly within a spre

Call for Papers: The YAR (ANR) and Cais (B-Monde/Agile Cymru) projects are co-organizing a workshop on tools for minority languages with a focus on teaching contexts. The workshop will take place on 5 May 2026 in Brittany (France), at Technopôle Brest-Iroise in Plouzane, on the premises of the Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the digital practices of teachers, learners, and speakers of minoritized languages and “non-standard” variants. H

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Conference of Linguistic Research and Applications, Linguistics 2026 Athens, to be held from 23rd to 25th April 2026 in Athens, Greece. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of contemporary linguistics, welcoming innovative approaches to linguistic research and applications. The Linguistics 2026 Athens conference envisions a vibrant platform for collabora

Workshop on Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (BiLaP 2026) Time: April 23-24, 2026 Place: Auditorium, Campus De La Nive, Uppa. Thursday, April 23 9.00-9.20 Registration 9.20-9.30 Welcome [Urtzi Etxeberria & Evelina Leivada] [session chair: Evelina Leivada] 9.30-10.30 Blended Conceptual Representations in the Bilingual Mind Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta 10.30-11.00 Preliminary Analysis of Brain-to-Speech Stimulus Reconstruction

Call for Papers: The research group Pragmatics. Discourse. Cognition (PraDiC), from the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho (CEHUM), will organize an in-person international congress on Everyday Discourses on July 9–10, 2026. Everyday life is fundamentally made up of discourses. As beings of language, discourse sustains social experience. It encompasses varied ways of expression—oral, written, imagetic, and multimodal—typically formed through brief interactions that ar

Workshop on Bilingual Language Processing: Bridging Human and Artificial Cognition (BiLaP 2026) Time: April 23-24, 2026 Place: Auditorium, Campus De La Nive, Uppa. Thursday, April 23 9.00-9.20 Registration 9.20-9.30 Welcome [Urtzi Etxeberria & Evelina Leivada] [session chair: Evelina Leivada] 9.30-10.30 Blended Conceptual Representations in the Bilingual Mind Invited speaker: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta 10.30-11.00 Preliminary Analysis of Brain-to-Speech Stimulus Reconstruction

Call for Papers: The Centre for Latin American Studies of the University of Ghana (UG) in collaboration with the Ghanaian Association of Hispanists, the Department of European Languages (UG) and the Institute of African Studies (UG), is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the VII International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS 2026) from August 5-7, 2026. The theme of the conference is Transatlantic Pathways: Culture, Politics, and Know

The contemporary world is marked by a state of ongoing tension, no longer driven by isolated crises, but by the convergence and interplay of multiple, simultaneous crises: pandemics, war, migration, climate catastrophes, economic instability, disinformation, and the erosion of social trust. This polycrisis has become a new paradigm of experiencing reality — complex, unpredictable, and difficult to articulate in simple terms. In this context, language gains critical importance — not only as a to

Call for Papers: It is our pleasure to invite you to the 40th International Scientific Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (CALS). The conference will be held from June 25 to 27, 2026, at the Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia. The theme of this year's conference is: "Language: From Conceptualization to Application" We welcome submissions that approach this theme from various perspectives, including but not limited to: foreign/second lang

The contemporary world is marked by a state of ongoing tension, no longer driven by isolated crises, but by the convergence and interplay of multiple, simultaneous crises: pandemics, war, migration, climate catastrophes, economic instability, disinformation, and the erosion of social trust. This polycrisis has become a new paradigm of experiencing reality — complex, unpredictable, and difficult to articulate in simple terms. In this context, language gains critical importance — not only as a to

Call for Papers: Submission deadline: March 20, 2026 Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2026/ComputEL2026 ComputEL-9 will be co-located with ACL 2026 in San Diego, California. 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) demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused o

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology is organising a research conference dedicated to discussing the rapid development of the language industry and the growing possibilities of applying artificial intelligence in ways that are reshaping research practices. We cordially invite professionals and researchers in Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussion

[EN] This workshop, organised within SFB 1412: Register by Project A09 (https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de), examines the intersection of register and socio-geographic variation, and how these dynamics relate to processes of standardisation, with a particular focus on Spanish and its varieties worldwide. Project A09 investigates this interface in Canarian Spanish through three morpho-syntactic phenomena. The Canary Islands represent a linguistically complex space: politically part of Spain and

Final Call for Papers: Extended deadline for submission of abstracts The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz is pleased to host the 35th annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 35), which will be held May 1st–3rd, 2026. Talks and posters can be presented in person at our campus in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, or by Zoom. (In-person and Zoom presentations will be in separate sessions.) It will be possible to attend conference presentation

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology is organising a research conference dedicated to discussing the rapid development of the language industry and the growing possibilities of applying artificial intelligence in ways that are reshaping research practices. We cordially invite professionals and researchers in Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussion

[EN] This workshop, organised within SFB 1412: Register by Project A09 (https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de), examines the intersection of register and socio-geographic variation, and how these dynamics relate to processes of standardisation, with a particular focus on Spanish and its varieties worldwide. Project A09 investigates this interface in Canarian Spanish through three morpho-syntactic phenomena. The Canary Islands represent a linguistically complex space: politically part of Spain and

SinFonIJA is a traveling conference that covers topics from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition. It was first organised in Nova Gorica in 2008 (you can still visit its website here) and got its name from the Slovenian SINtaksa FONologija In Jezikovna Analiza ‘Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis’. Over the past 16 years it has been been organised in Brno, Udine, Novi Sad, Budapest, Kraków, Dubrovnik, Lju

SinFonIJA is a traveling conference that covers topics from all areas of theoretical linguistics, comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition. It was first organised in Nova Gorica in 2008 (you can still visit its website here) and got its name from the Slovenian SINtaksa FONologija In Jezikovna Analiza ‘Syntax, Phonology and Language Analysis’. Over the past 16 years it has been been organised in Brno, Udine, Novi Sad, Budapest, Kraków, Dubrovnik, Lju