FYI: GRAPHIA Webinar: Beyond SPARQL – Conversation-Based Access to Knowledge Graphs
We are pleased to invite you to an upcoming webinar organised within the GRAPHIA project, taking place on 16 April at 2 PM CET.
Title: Beyond SPARQL: towards conversation-based access to knowledge graphs in GRAPHIA
SPARQL has long been the standard interface to knowledge graphs but its technical complexity limits access for many audiences. This webinar introduces Quagga, an LLM-based agent developed within GRAPHIA that enables conversational exploration of knowledge graphs using natural la
Qs: Call for Participants: Native English Speaker Lexical Judgement Task
I am wanting for native English speakers to judge the acceptability of sentences containing the verb 'climb'.
That is, I am investigating aspects of 'climb', so I am forcedly using the verb even when there are potential alternatives to it.
In this project, informants will be judging the acceptability of the sentences by selecting either of the four options (Verry Natural, Natural, A Little Unnatural, and Unnatural) except one question.
In order for me to exhaust possibilities, there are
Qs: Looking for Old Journal Volume: Tribute to Mary Haas: Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 39, No. 4 (1997)
I am looking for a hard copy of an old journal volume: Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 39, No. 4 (1997).
I am working on a biography of Dr. Haas, as a tribute to one of our scholarly ancestors to whom I feel a lot of gratitude.
I know can access all of the articles in the journal online via jstor, but I'd really like a physical copy. If you have one you are willing to part with, let me know. I am happy to cover shipping and compensation for the journal. Thank you!
Calls: 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
Call for Papers:
The 33rd Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from August 7 to August 9, with a pre-conference workshop/tutorial planned for August 6, 2026.
We welcome abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion, and for poster presentations. Contributions to any aspect of Japanese/Korean linguistics, or comparison of these languages with other languages welcome.
We welcome
Calls: 2nd International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management
2nd Call for Papers:
NeoTerm 2026 is the second International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, organized by the ENEOLI COST Action. The first edition (Neoterm 2025) was held in Thessaloniki (Greece) as a co-located event with MDTT 2025.
This year, NeoTerm goes north and will be organized by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 3 September 2026.
The 2nd NeoTerm workshop will be co-located with the Nordic/European event aimed at initiating joint Nordic–European collaborati
Calls: Lexique - "Issue 40" (Jrnl)
The diamond open access journal "Lexique" is now accepting submissions for its next regular issue (No. 40). The deadline to submit is July 1, 2026, with publication scheduled for early July 2027.
The journal focuses on the study of the lexicon in itself and at the intersection of other linguistic fields. It welcomes contributions from various disciplines within the field, including morphology, semantics, metalexicography, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and NLP, and from a variety of methodologi
Confs: Diskurs interdisziplinär 14
DI 14: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse studies into translingual dialogue
14th instalment of the conference series “Diskurs – interdisziplinär”
Åbo Akademi University, Åbo/Turku, Finland, 22nd and 23rd of October 2026 in cooperation with U Bremen, TU Dresden, IDS Mannheim and U Warsaw
A Foucauldian concept of discourse is and remains widely used in many disciplines, not least in cultural studies and linguistics. Although Foucault’s own work is a common denomin
Confs: Diskurs interdisziplinär 14
DI 14: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse studies into translingual dialogue
14th instalment of the conference series “Diskurs – interdisziplinär”
Åbo Akademi University, Åbo/Turku, Finland, 22nd and 23rd of October 2026 in cooperation with U Bremen, TU Dresden, IDS Mannheim and U Warsaw
A Foucauldian concept of discourse is and remains widely used in many disciplines, not least in cultural studies and linguistics. Although Foucault’s own work is a common denomin
FYI: NATESOL Webinar: Enhancing Writing Skills for Low Level English Language Learners
You are warmly invited to the next free webinar from the Northern Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (NATESOL).
Building foundations: Enhancing writing skills for low-level learners by Lesley Painter-Farrell (School Director & Author)
Thursday, 9th April, 2026
4-5:30PM GMT
Online via Zoom
Free registration here https://www.natesol.org/event-details/building-foundations-enhancing-writing-skills-in-low-level-learners
Abstract:
Supporting and developing s
Confs: 13th International Confererence on Multimodality
The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027.
The phenomenon of multimodality – or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression – is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is essential for moving
Confs: 7th International Conference on Education and Linguistics and Exhibitions
Westminster International University in Tashkent cordially invites you to submit a speaker proposal to the upcoming 7th International Conference on Education and Linguistics (ICEL) and Exhibitions which is going to take place on 12-13 May 2026 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The topic of the conference is "Education for sustainable futures: Language and Learning reimagined"
Mode: hybrid (in-person and virtual)
The conference accepts speaker proposals (not presented before) on the following to
FYI: Webinar 10 April: Salikoko Mufwene: "Multilingualism is not a Barrier to African Economic Development; Bad Economic Policies are."
Webinar Series: Conversations on Language Policy in Africa
Multilingualism is not a barrier to African economic development; bad economic policies are.
Registration link: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/99882eae-9667-46d6-b794-7d8fbd175b77@d400387a-212f-43ea-ac7f-77aa12d7977e
Abstract
Since the dawn of Independence in the early1960s, African leaders have been advised, especially by economists, but also by some linguists that the multitude of languages is expensive and an obstacle
Confs: 13th International Confererence on Multimodality
The 13th International Conference on Multimodality (13ICOM) will be organised at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in June 2027.
The phenomenon of multimodality – or how communication and interaction build on coordinated combinations of multiple forms of expression – is now actively researched within diverse fields of study. Given the multifaceted nature and complexity of the phenomenon, pursuing a constructive dialogue between different approaches to multimodality is essential for moving
Confs: 7th International Conference on Education and Linguistics and Exhibitions
Westminster International University in Tashkent cordially invites you to submit a speaker proposal to the upcoming 7th International Conference on Education and Linguistics (ICEL) and Exhibitions which is going to take place on 12-13 May 2026 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The topic of the conference is "Education for sustainable futures: Language and Learning reimagined"
Mode: hybrid (in-person and virtual)
The conference accepts speaker proposals (not presented before) on the following to
Confs: NATESOL 42nd Annual Conference
Plenary Speaker - Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development)
Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center. Working in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research, methodology, evaluation, teacher education, learner training, and listening. He se
Confs: NATESOL 42nd Annual Conference
Plenary Speaker - Professor Phil Hubbard, Stanford University USA (Integrating Generative AI into Second Language Listening: Explorations in Professional Development)
Professor Phil Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center. Working in the field of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research, methodology, evaluation, teacher education, learner training, and listening. He se
Calls: Workshop: Register at the Interface of Socio-Geographic Variation
Call for Papers:
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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: politicall
Calls: Digital Studies in Language and Literature (Jrnl)
Digital Studies in Language and Literature, published by De Gruyter and led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Shaofeng Li and Qiyang Mo, welcomes all submissions in line with the aims and scope below. Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License, ensuring that your research is freely available for all to read and download.
Aims and Scope:
DSLL provides a platform for scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners to ex
FYI: CfP for Edited Volume on "Globalization, Multilingualism, and AI - Reframing Language Teacher Identity"
Today, we're sharing our call for papers for an edited volume on "Globalization, Multilingualism, and AI: Reframing Language Teacher Identity" which will be under consideration for the series Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching with Multilingual Matters.
We have already been in touch with the editors who have expressed a great interest in this volume; based on the abstracts submitted, we will put together a proposal which will then be submitted to Multilingual Matters.
We thus
Confs: 55th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
Language as Political Action and as Social Practice
October 8-10, 2026
Towson University
Towson, Maryland
The Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO) invites abstract submission for papers and group panels for its 55th Annual Meeting. LASSO is a U.S.-based organization dedicated to promoting the scientific study of language. Although many of our members focus on the languages spoken in the southwestern United States, LASSO maintains a global perspective. We welcome members and rese