Following the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Spanish Bilingual Lexicography held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Granada on June 2023, we are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Bilingual Spanish Lexicography (BIL.LEX26). It will be held on 26-27 May 2026 at the same venue. This conference continue the research into recent bilingual dictionaries, focusing on one of the gaps identified in studies of Spanish lexicograph

We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). The event will be held from October 17

Call for Papers: NELS 57 will take place from 2026-10-16 to 2026-10-18 at New York, USA, hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center. The invited speakers are: Athulya Aravind (Yale University) Jeff Heinz (Stony Brook University) Matthew Hewett (University of Pennsylvania) Laura Kalin (Princeton University). We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks and posters on theoretical and formal issues in any area in natural language. Abstracts, including data and references, may not exceed 2 letter

We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

Call for Papers: The PILL Conference Series brings together scholars and researchers to explore one of the most compelling questions in linguistics and discourse studies: How is identity constructed, performed, and negotiated through language? This year’s edition of PILL invites scholars to critically engage with the concept of identity in (post)modernity, with particular attention to the challenges and dilemmas that arise in both the discursive construction of identity and the methods use

We are delighted to announce that the 12th edition of Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory (FEAST) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 6 to 8 July 2026. It is organized by SignLab Amsterdam, a cross-faculty research lab of the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. FEAST is the regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in

The study of mass-media-distributed pop-cultural artifacts - such as songs, films, television series, comics, video games, and so on - is becoming increasingly widespread in academia due to their enormous reach and the fact that they constitute a significant portion of contemporary everyday communication (with potentially significant social influence). In this regard, it should be noted that language, as a central creative component of pop-cultural communication, has received increased attention

McGill linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6–8 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html