In conjunction with LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, Spain One-day hybrid event We are delighted to announce the 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026), an international event dedicated to the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Financial/Accounting data. This year, FNP 2026 will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, within the framework of LREC 2026. The workshop will run as a one-day hybrid event, allowing for both on-site interactio

SUMMARY This book has emerged from an academic network “Syntax Beyond the Canon”, sponsored by the German Research Foundation between 2019 and 2025. The contributors share the idea that, for anything one might want to say, there is a default – “canonical” – way of saying it, and they are interested in how, and why, a language-user might instead choose an alternative, “non-canonical” way of expressing himself (where the alternatives considered relate largely to word-order differences). Thus

Focus: PhD students are the main target audience, but the courses are not restricted to them and are open to a professional audience that wants to keep up to date. Description: 9 courses are offered, 3 per area: AREA 1: FORMAL AND EXPERIMENTAL LINGUISTICS Course 1: L2 spoken vocabulary learning and teaching - Takumi Uchihara (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) Course 2: Eye-tracking methodology in linguistic research - Andrea Listanti (BilinguaLab - Universidad de Granada) Course 3: C

There are common words and linguistic similarities between languages spoken in Ethiopia and the Arabic varieties used in the Middle East and North Africa primarily due to shared "Semitic" linguistic roots, geographical proximity, and historical interactions. Amharic and Tigrinya are the major languages in the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands, they share many cognates (words with a common origin) and similar grammatical structures. We at Kalmasoft have spent the last five years extracting all

Analyzing language at scale can be daunting. Open Brain AI (https://openbrainai.com/) simplifies this by offering an all-in-one, free-to-use application for language analysis. It integrates multi-level linguistic and acoustic processing, offering a robust environment for researchers, clinicians, and educators to process language. 1) Multilingual Analysis: English, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and other languages. 2) Multi-Level Text Processing: Automatically extract score

As generative AI and large language models reshape how we interact with chatbots, voice assistants and conversational agents, HUMIC focuses on the linguistic, social and relational dimensions of these technologies—areas often overlooked in technical development. HUMIC, led by Dr. Doris Dippold and supported by the Surrey Institute for Advanced Studies, the BAAL Special Interest Group ‘Humans, Machines, Languages’ and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary

We'd like to invite you to participate in the following shared tasks at PAN 2026 held in conjunction with the CLEF conference in Jena, Germany. 1. Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection. Given a (potentially obfuscated) text, decide whether it was written by a human or an AI. https://pan.webis.de/clef26/pan26-web/generated-content-analysis.html 2. Text Watermarking. Insert a watermark into a given text. Then, after we have attacked the text, detect the inserted watermark. https://pan.we

While humour is commonly seen as a form of entertainment, its role often extends beyond mere amusement. It can, in fact, be a powerful vehicle for social critique, raising cultural awareness, and fostering civic engagement. However, for every instance of harmless or well-intentioned humour (Raskin 1985; Norrick 1993; Dore 2022 here), there are cases where it acts to reinforce, disseminate, and normalise social discrimination, including racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, and bullying, across a wide

Call For Papers: The UC Davis Cluster on Language Research is pleased to announce our 12th annual Symposium on Language Research, taking place in May 22nd and 23rd, 2026. The current theme is "Language at a Crossroads: History, Innovation, and Change." The UC Davis CLR is a very interdisciplinary, fully student-run and organized conference hosting research on "language" in any capacity. Every year, we have presentations on work done in departments of linguistics, education, psychology, c

Registration is still open for the 48th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), which will take place in Trier, Germany, on Feb 25-27. The programme comprises plenary events, 15 parallel workshops, and satellite events on Tuesday, Feb 24. See www.dgfs2026.uni-trier.de for details. Invited Speakers: Jennifer Cole (Northwestern U) Annette Gerstenberg (U Potsdam) Simon Meier-Vieracker (TU Dresden) Peter Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) Workshops: - Visual Patterns in the

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). Most work in NLP focu

Final Call for Papers: Reminder: abstracts for the Princeton Phonlogy Forum 2026 poster session are due on February 15, 2026. We invite abstracts on any topics related to tone, with preference for posters on tonal representation, upstep, and downstep. Follow this link to submit your abstract: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=pf20260. The fifth meeting of the Princeton Phonology Forum (PɸF 2026) will be held at Princeton University on May 15–May 16, 2026. The theme for PɸF 2026 is "R

Die Bände vereinen Beiträge internationaler Wissenschaftler:innen zu aktuellen Themen der italianistischen Linguistik und Philologie unter dem Oberthema „Tempo e Spazio“. Die Beiträge enthalten Analysen von mittelalterlichen Briefen bis hin zu Tweets und beschäftigen sich mit Varietäten wie dem politichese, dem Italienischen afrikanischer Migrant:innen in Berlin oder der Sprache Schizophrener. Klassische Themenbereiche wie Verbsemantik und -morphosyntax, die italienische Dialektologie und sprach

Diese Neuauflage des Handbuchs bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über den Stand der Forschung und die Praxis zur Mehrsprachigkeits- und Mehrkulturalitätsdidaktik. Die über 130 Artikel behandeln u. a.: Sprachenpolitik (national und EU), Interkomprehension, Erst-, Zweit- und Mehrsprachenerwerb, Tertiärsprachendidaktik, lebensweltliche Vielsprachigkeit, Herkunftssprachen, bilingualen Sachfachunterricht, autochthone Mehrsprachigkeiten, Kompetenzorientierung, Didaktik der Grenzregionen, inter- und t

How do people talk about words? This work explores naming constructions such as This formation is called a “coral reef” that are used to introduce lexicalized concepts like coral reef through metalinguistic reference. Drawing on the theoretical foundations in philosophy of language as well as recent work in semantics and pragmatics, experimental evidence from corpus analyses and psycholinguistic experiments—including self-paced reading and eye-tracking data—uncover the linguistic and cognitive p

Der vorliegende Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge des XXXVIII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums zum Themenschwerpunkt „Kognitive Linguistik und Romanistik“. Die Texte spiegeln die zunehmende Relevanz kognitiv-linguistischer Ansätze innerhalb der romanistischen Sprachwissenschaft wider – eine Entwicklung, die als Reaktion auf frühere, primär systemorientierte Theorietraditionen entstand. Die Beiträge decken ein breites Spektrum aktueller Perspektiven der kognitiven Linguistik innerhalb der Romanisti

This monograph investigates for the first time words like ‘thing’ of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English ‘thing’ – in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (‘what?’). Few languages extend their ‘thing’ words into indefinite ‘something’, ‘anything’, ‘nothing’, as in English. As regards Indo-European languages, Buck (1988) points out that such words typically derive from a more abstract source than that of

This book brings together some of the most prominent linguists working in the field of East and Southeast Asian syntax to create a special collection of papers which highlight new developments in the analysis of the syntax of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian languages. Generative syntactic theory has regularly been influenced by discoveries made in Asian languages, and the present volume connects a broad range of striking patterns found in Asian languages with Mini

The conference considers all aspects of the linguistic and sociolinguistic competences and practices of bi-/multilingual speakers who cross existing social, cultural and linguistic boundaries, adopting or adapting themselves to new and overlapping linguistic spaces. We invite papers in all areas of research in bi-/multilingualism, whether or not linked directly to the overarching conference theme, including, but not limited to, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics,

The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. This research is driven by the recognition that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity provides important and unique opportunities to see language processing and language learning mechanisms at work. The bulk of processing and acquisition research repr