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鈥攁reas 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 鈥楬umans, Machines, Languages鈥� and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, aims to foster interdisciplinary
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鈥攁reas 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 鈥楬umans, Machines, Languages鈥� 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
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-N眉rnberg)
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
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-N眉rnberg)
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 (P筛F 2026) will be held at Princeton University on May 15鈥揗ay 16, 2026. The theme for P筛F 2026 is "R
Die B盲nde vereinen Beitr盲ge internationaler Wissenschaftler:innen zu aktuellen Themen der italianistischen Linguistik und Philologie unter dem Oberthema 鈥濼empo e Spazio鈥�. Die Beitr盲ge enthalten Analysen von mittelalterlichen Briefen bis hin zu Tweets und besch盲ftigen sich mit Variet盲ten 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 脺berblick 眉ber den Stand der Forschung und die Praxis zur Mehrsprachigkeits- und Mehrkulturalit盲tsdidaktik. Die 眉ber 130 Artikel behandeln u. a.: Sprachenpolitik (national und EU), Interkomprehension, Erst-, Zweit- und Mehrsprachenerwerb, Terti盲rsprachendidaktik, 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 鈥渃oral reef鈥� 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鈥攊ncluding self-paced reading and eye-tracking data鈥攗ncover the linguistic and cognitive p
Der vorliegende Band versammelt ausgew盲hlte Beitr盲ge des XXXVIII. Romanistischen Kolloquiums zum Themenschwerpunkt 鈥濳ognitive Linguistik und Romanistik鈥�. Die Texte spiegeln die zunehmende Relevanz kognitiv-linguistischer Ans盲tze innerhalb der romanistischen Sprachwissenschaft wider 鈥� eine Entwicklung, die als Reaktion auf fr眉here, prim盲r systemorientierte Theorietraditionen entstand. Die Beitr盲ge decken ein breites Spektrum aktueller Perspektiven der kognitiven Linguistik innerhalb der Romanisti
This monograph investigates for the first time words like 鈥榯hing鈥� of maximal semantic generality across languages. Not all languages have exact equivalents of English 鈥榯hing鈥� 鈥� in some, for instance, the nearest equivalent is an interrogative stem (鈥榳hat?鈥�). Few languages extend their 鈥榯hing鈥� words into indefinite 鈥榮omething鈥�, 鈥榓nything鈥�, 鈥榥othing鈥�, 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