News Translation and Artificial Intelligence Edited by Julie Alice Gramaccia (University of Ottawa) and Kyle Conway (University of Ottawa) Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025 In the last half-decade, research on artificial intelligence has exploded, following the exponential growth in the capacity and use of large language models. Among media scholars, the impact of AI on journalism has been a frequent focus (e.g., Guèvremont & Brin, 2024; Roy, Brin, & Gramaccia, 2021). In a paral

Workshop at the 16th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology Convenors: Laura Becker (University of Freiburg) & Naomi Peck (University of Freiburg) Workshop Description: The Written Bias in Typology Most languages are primarily spoken, with only a minority of languages or speaker communities developing a writing system. We can estimate that less than 10% of all languages spoken today have developed writing to the extent that they have a literary tradition, with

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction Proposal for a workshop at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2026), to be held in Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026. Organisers: Jenneke van der Wal (Leiden University) Karolina Grzech (UPF Barcelona) Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/UPF Barcelona) Summary: The speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge can be(come) an essential aspect of a language’s grammar and languages differ in how it is realized. Some language

Guest Editors: Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University, Ireland - iker.erdocia@dcu.ie) Bettina Migge (University College Dublin, Ireland – bettinamigge@ucd.ie) Britta Schneider (European University Viadrina, Germany – bschneider@europa-uni.de) Special Issue Information: Machine-learning involving language (or AI) has recently become ubiquitous in all aspects of life in many parts of the world due to a commercially driven agenda by a handful of big tech companies from the US and China. Althou

We are delighted to announce the 7th international Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) conference, which takes place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 September 2026. Keynotes: Miriam Meyerhoff — University of Oxford, UK Emma Moore — University of Sheffield, UK John A. Bateman — University of Bremen, Germany Gunther Kaltenböck — University of Graz, Austria Scott F. Kiesling — University of Pittsburgh, USA The Conference Series: DiPVaC is a biennial in

Final Call for Papers: Deadline Extended until October 15th. Welcome to the 6th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL 2026), which is organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics and will be held on January 21, 22, and 23, 2026, at the Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid. As a predoctoral conference, we encourage predoctoral students and early-career scholars from various linguistic fields to submit their work. It will be a great

After a summer break, the Acquisition Sketch Meetings are starting again! Our new series will focus on sketches in progress. In each session, one or more people will present advances and issues from their ongoing sketches. This will give us all a chance to see other sketches in development and discuss questions. The first meeting will be "An in-progress look at the Pitjantjatjara Acquisition Sketch”, presented by Rebecca Defina. It will be held on Wednesday 8th October: Berlin = 9 am, Delh

A large-scale study of attitudes towards Standard Austrian German has collected more than 55,000 complete responses to date (preliminary results in German: https://science.apa.at/power-search/5030866180983458640, in English: https://www.vienna.at/german-but-please-made-in-austria-why-we-austrians-love-our-standard-german/9628517). We ask for your assistance distributing the survey to people who: * live or have lived in Austria (for two years or more) * are 12 years or older We would part

I am pleased to announce the release of RCaucTile and PyCaucTile. Those are new R and Python packages designed for generating tile maps specifically for East Caucasian languages within the `ggplot2` framework. RCaucTile and PyCaucTile provide an R/Python implementation of the East Caucasian Languages template. Documentation includes several examples. The packages are freely available on CRAN and pypi. - documentation: https://lingconlab.github.io/RCaucTile/ - R version from CRAN: https://cr

Description: The Department of English at Louisiana State University (LSU) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics, beginning in August of 2026. Located in Baton Rouge, LSU is the flagship land-grant institution in Louisiana and a Research 1 (R1) University. We support research and teaching in a broad range of fields and many interdisciplinary programs. Requirements: Ph.D.in Linguistics, or in related field by the time the position begins; record of pu

Call for Papers: The International Linguistic Society is delighted to invite you to participate in the International Thematic Conference of Pronunciation Research and Applications, Pronunciation 2026 Online, to be held online from 25-27 February 2026. The primary aim of the conference is to advance key areas of pronunciation, welcoming at the same time innovative approaches to pronunciation research and applications. The Pronunciation 2026 Online conference envisions a vibrant platform for

The journal Sociolinguistic Studies, founded in 2000, invites submissions of articles for its number/issue 20.3, to be published in August 2026. Papers may examine any issue in sociolinguistic research including, but not limited to, styles and registers, communicative situations and speech events, politeness, bilingual conversation and code-switching, gender and discourse, language attitudes, language ideologies, the diversity of the worldwide linguistic situation, bilingualism and multilinguali

Organisé pour la première fois en 2006, le colloque Les français d’ici en est à sa dixième édition et fêtera donc à cette occasion en 2026 son vingtième anniversaire. Ce colloque bisannuel offre aux chercheuses et chercheurs, professeures et professeurs qui s’intéressent aux variétés de français et à la francophonie nord-américaine une occasion de partager leurs travaux et leurs réflexions en la matière, quelles que soient les approches théoriques et méthodologiques mobilisées par leurs rech

Call for Papers - Workshops at International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025 Here is the list of accepted workshops at IJCNLP-AACL 2025, which will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in December 2025. We invite you to explore the individual workshop websites for important details, including deadlines, calls for papers, and participation information. As workshop co-chairs, we are

Background: To what degree a given variety of human language is similar to or different from another variety has been a topic of great interest, not only to linguists but also to the general public. With the advent of big data and computational tools in language science, we can now address this perennial question in ways that were not possible or realistic before. In this proposed workshop, we will venture into the many dimensions of cross-linguistic distance, the quantifiable degree of dissi

Please see the conference website (https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/) for versions of this announcement in Kiswahili, Lingála, français, português, and español. The BantUGent team is happy to welcome you to the city of Ghent (Belgium) for the 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu11). It will take place from August 18 to August 21, 2026, just before the 55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2026) in Leiden (the Netherlands) from August 24th till Aug

2nd Call for Papers: Methods in Dialectology and Language Diversity is a traditionally triennial conference that originated in Canada as a forum for discussing methodological issues in dialect research. Methods conferences have progressively extended their topical range and now include the whole spectrum of regional, historical, and social language variation, as reflected in the now expanded conference name. The Methods series welcomes contributions investigating any of the world’s langua

Call for Papers – SLLE Vol. 1, No. 2 (Dec 2025) Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) e-ISSN: 3088-8115 | p-ISSN: 3088-8069 Website: https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/slle The editorial board invites submissions for the 2nd issue (December 2025) of SLLE, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published biannually by the LOAPL Laboratory, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Oran 2. Scholarly essays Focus: Linguistics & Language Education (theoretical, ap

Call for Papers: The main aim of the Workshop on Linguistic Variation at Interfaces III – VARINT26 is to widen our understanding of the empirical phenomena displaying linguistic variation, their relevance for the design of the overall grammatical architecture, and the current status of approaches to variation in terms of (micro) parameters and networks. Descriptive-formal generative approaches to variation are founded on the hypothesis that variation among languages is understood as the in

Description: The Department of Language and Linguistic Science is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in Computational Linguistics for a fixed term of two years to work on “Developing Y-ACCDIST’s robustness for use on Levantine Arabic dialects”. This is a subproject of the Common European Language Indication and Analysis (CELIA) project (led by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service of the Netherlands Ministry of Asylum and Migration and co-funded by the European U