Calls: Danubius Noster (Jrnl)

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The editors of the academic journal Danubius Noster of Eötvös József College invites the submission of publications related to the scientific fields of early language education, general linguistics, applied linguistics, language acquisition and discourse analysis. We welcome studies in English, German and Croatian languages. Manuscripts submitted to the journal undergo a peer review process. Deadline for submitting studies: 15 April 2026. The formatting requirements can be downloaded from her

Review: Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: Renata Szczepaniak (2025)

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SUMMARY Sprachliche Zweifelsfälle. Definition, Betrachtungsdimensionen und Erforschung, verfasst von Renata Szczepaniak (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 240 Seiten) ist das Resultat langjähriger Auseinandersetzung mit Zweifelsfällen innerhalb der universitären Lehre. Es ist als Einführung in sprachliche Zweifelsfälle konzipiert und beleuchtet grammatische, gebrauchslinguistische, soziolinguistische und psycholinguistische Perspektive näher beleuchtet werden. Dieses Buch ist als Gr

Review: Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones and David Schönthal (2025)

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Review: Referring in Language. An Integrated Approach Summary In 1959, Jorge Luis Borges wrote “If, as the Greek maintains in the Cratylus, a name is the archetype of the thing,/ the rose is in the letters that spell rose / and the Nile entire resounds in its name's ring” (Borges-The-Golem.pdf). The beginning of the poem The Golem addresses the ancient problem of reference, a problem that Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones, and David Schöntal take over in their book Referring in Language, published

Calls: Workshop at LREC 2026: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective

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Final Call for Papers: Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective (DialRes-LREC26) Workshop at LREC 2026 — Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 16, 2026 Hybrid event — in person and online Website: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/ Contact: dialres-lrec26@googlegroups.com Dialectal and non-standard varieties pose persistent challenges for linguistic resource development. While in-depth study and large-scale resource creation for dominant or standard varieties have driven major advances in lang

FYI: Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series – Seminar Three

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The third talk of the Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series will take place remotely on Monday 23rd February 2026 at 5pm GMT. Yu Wu (University of Helsinki, Finland) will be presenting on “Beyond Text Reuse in 18th-century Reception: Evaluating Semantic Search through the Case of Locke.” Registration for this talk will close at midnight on Friday 20th February and the link for this can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecz4as9KJdUSfK_Igt6YNokenS8hydO6EA8LPu_y

Calls: 3rd Workshop on Computation and Written Language at LREC 2026

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Final Call for Papers: The Third Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2026) will be held in conjunction with LREC 2026 as a half-day workshop on May 12th in Palma, on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The workshop will feature an invited talk, a tutorial on working with different writing systems, and posters and presentations for submitted work. Annual CAWL workshops are organized under the guidance of the ACL Special Interest Group on Writing Systems and Written Language (SIGWrit)

Support: General Linguistics: PhD, Graduate School Language & Literature (LMU Munich)

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DAAD Scholarship for International Doctoral Candidates and PhD Positions in the Class of Language Education, LMU Munich: The Class of Language Education within the Graduate School Language & Literature at LMU Munich offers a research-oriented and interdisciplinary doctoral program drawing on the expertise of all subject didactics represented at the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. Professors in German and English didactics, as well as in the didactics of Romance and Classical languages,

Confs: Tourism Communication Across Time and Space: Languages, Cultural Mediations, and Historical Developments

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 10:05
The PRIN 2020 project DIETALY (Destination Italy in Tourism Translation Over the Years) has investigated how Italy has been represented, translated, and circulated as a destination for international tourists across languages and media over the past century. Focusing in particular on the period from the 1920s to the 1950s, the project has examined the role of language and translation in shaping Italy’s international image during years marked by Fascism, economic crisis, and post-war reconstructio

Confs: 5th International Language-for-All Conference

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 10:05
We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye. Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary,

Calls: Workshop on Multilingual Language Processing: Multilingual Minds and Machines Meeting

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Call for Papers: Computational modelling has long been a highly influential research method in the study of human language processing. In the last decade or so, the impact of computational simulations has further increased with the availability of models with human-scale knowledge of language statistics and the development of powerful linking functions (based on, for instance, information theory and distributional semantics) between model predictions and human processing, as well as the avail

Confs: Tourism Communication Across Time and Space: Languages, Cultural Mediations, and Historical Developments

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The PRIN 2020 project DIETALY (Destination Italy in Tourism Translation Over the Years) has investigated how Italy has been represented, translated, and circulated as a destination for international tourists across languages and media over the past century. Focusing in particular on the period from the 1920s to the 1950s, the project has examined the role of language and translation in shaping Italy’s international image during years marked by Fascism, economic crisis, and post-war reconstructio

Confs: 5th International Language-for-All Conference

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We are delighted to welcome you to the Fifth International Language-for-All Conference (LfAC’26), which will take place on October 22–23, 2026, at Çukurova University in Adana, Türkiye. Centred on the theme “Social Justice: Language, Equity, Voice, and Empowerment,” the conference brings together scholars, educators, and practitioners working in language education, linguistics, literary studies, translation and interpretation studies, and cultural studies to examine how linguistic, literary,

Confs: Minisymposium at JuliaCon 2026: Bringing Julia to the Computational Humanities and Social Sciences

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 09:05
The computational humanities and social sciences (CHSS) constitute a rapidly growing area that works with massive amounts of unstructured textual, linguistic, and sociocultural data. Despite the scale and complexity of these datasets, CHSS researchers overwhelmingly rely on tools that are either slow (e.g., pure Python), fragmented across ecosystems, or difficult to integrate into modern workflows that require both prototyping and high-performance computation. This minisymposium aims to intro

Confs: Foro Internacional De La Desigualdad Lingüística

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 09:05
Descripción: El proyecto ReDes_Ling (Resistir la Desigualdad Lingüística) invita a participar en un encuentro que busca reunir a artistas, activistas e investigadorxs interesadxs en los cruces entre la desigualdad social y los usos del lenguaje. El objetivo es promover un diálogo horizontal a partir de nuestras experiencias y compartir prácticas y estrategias de resistencia. El encuentro se llevará a cabo en dos instancias. Los días 7 y 8 de julio de 2026 tendrá lugar en la sede UNSAM campu

Confs: Minisymposium at JuliaCon 2026: Bringing Julia to the Computational Humanities and Social Sciences

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The computational humanities and social sciences (CHSS) constitute a rapidly growing area that works with massive amounts of unstructured textual, linguistic, and sociocultural data. Despite the scale and complexity of these datasets, CHSS researchers overwhelmingly rely on tools that are either slow (e.g., pure Python), fragmented across ecosystems, or difficult to integrate into modern workflows that require both prototyping and high-performance computation. This minisymposium aims to intro

Confs: Foro Internacional De La Desigualdad Lingüística

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Descripción: El proyecto ReDes_Ling (Resistir la Desigualdad Lingüística) invita a participar en un encuentro que busca reunir a artistas, activistas e investigadorxs interesadxs en los cruces entre la desigualdad social y los usos del lenguaje. El objetivo es promover un diálogo horizontal a partir de nuestras experiencias y compartir prácticas y estrategias de resistencia. El encuentro se llevará a cabo en dos instancias. Los días 7 y 8 de julio de 2026 tendrá lugar en la sede UNSAM campu

Calls: Information Disorder Workshop at LREC 2026

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Final Call for Papers: The Information Disorder Workshop Collocated with LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain https://information-disorder-workshop.github.io/ - February 24: Paper submission - March 17: Notification of acceptance - March 30: Camera-ready submission - May 12, 2026: InDor at LREC! Online disinformation is a pressing challenge for our societies. Its role in influencing elections (Allcott & Gentzkow, 2017) and behaviours (van der Linden et al., 2020) has gathered

Confs: Interspeech 2026

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 08:05
Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. The conference emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology. The theme of Interspeech 2026 is “Speaking Together”, highlighting the fundamental role of speech in enabling human communication, and exploring how speech technologies can bring people and communities closer across languages, cultures, and modalities. Inter

Confs: Morphology as Syntax 4

Conferences - Wed, 02/11/2026 - 08:05
The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions. Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge based theories with the same principles? April 17, Friday Queens College, City University of New York Queens Hall 250, 65-21 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367 Goals: Phenomena trad

Calls: Workshops at LREC 2026: Social Context Workshop and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions Workshop

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Final Call for Papers: SoCon and NLPSI will be co-located with the 15th conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’26), held in Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain), on 11-16 May 2026. Overview: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant evolution, opening up the possibility of capturing high-level aspects of human communication. Key areas of interest include the pragmatics, social dynamics, and the integration of social context, to further

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