The Organizing Committee of this Symposium is pleased to invite you to the 1st International Symposium on evaluative language in social media, which will take place on 19 and 20 November 2026 at the Applied Linguistics Department of the Universitat Polit猫cnica de Val猫ncia, Spain.
The symposium will focus on evaluative language in social media. Within this broader framework, four thematic panels will guide the discussion: Gender: This panel explores how evaluative language contributes to the c
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Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA
6-9 January 2027
This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting.
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The Organizing Committee of this Symposium is pleased to invite you to the 1st International Symposium on evaluative language in social media, which will take place on 19 and 20 November 2026 at the Applied Linguistics Department of the Universitat Polit猫cnica de Val猫ncia, Spain.
The symposium will focus on evaluative language in social media. Within this broader framework, four thematic panels will guide the discussion: Gender: This panel explores how evaluative language contributes to the c
100% IN PERSON
Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA
6-9 January 2027
This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting.
Abstract submis
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It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 13(2) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see 鈥淐URRENT鈥� or 鈥淎LL ISSUES鈥�).
The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/34.
JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA.
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It is our pleasure to announce the publication of issue 13(1) of the Journal of Language Modelling (JLM), a free Diamond Open-Access peer-reviewed journal aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical, formal and computational linguistics: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/ (see 鈥淐URRENT鈥� or 鈥淎LL ISSUES鈥�).
The direct persistent link to this issue is: http://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/issue/view/33.
JLM is indexed by SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, DBLP, DOAJ, etc., and it is a member of OASPA.
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We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2027), which will be held in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 27-29 May 2027.
The TAI conference originated from the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). TAI 2027 aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for distinguished scholars, experts, and practitioners to exchange ideas and d
As of volume 13 (2026), the John Benjamins International Journal of Language and Culture welcomes on board two new Editors, Ana茂s Aug茅 (UCLouvain) and Judit Baranyin茅 K贸czy (University of Pannonia). They will succeed Esther Pascual (Xi鈥檃n Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Vera da Silva Sinha (Universidade Federal da Para铆ba (UFPB) & University of East Anglia). Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha will remain members of the board.
The aim of the International Journal of Language and Cultur
We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the 4th International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2027), which will be held in Hong Kong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 27-29 May 2027.
The TAI conference originated from the International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL) and the Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE). TAI 2027 aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for distinguished scholars, experts, and practitioners to exchange ideas and d
NE-Embed is an open-source multilingual sentence embedding model developed by MWire Labs for Northeast Indian languages. The model is designed for semantic search, dense retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multilingual information retrieval, cross-lingual search, text similarity, clustering, duplicate detection, and AI-powered knowledge retrieval in low-resource languages.
Built on the LaBSE architecture and fine-tuned using more than 201,000 English鈥揘ortheast Indian parallel sen
A Franco-Belgian team is currently preparing an edited volume with the working title Negotiating Intersections in Translation, Accessibility, and Inclusion, and welcomes contributions for chapters.
This project grew out of the 鈥淚ntersections: Translation, accessibility, inclusion鈥� conference held in Dijon and online in October 2025 (https://tinyurl.com/intersections2025). The edited volume will welcome chapters developed from material presented at the conference but is framed not as a set of
The next Acquisition Sketch Project Meeting is on "An in-progress look at the Batangas Tagalog Acquisition Sketch鈥� presented by Eva Huber, plus 鈥淯sing MAIN to add a narrative component to your Sketch鈥� presented by Natalia Gagarina
It will be held on Wednesday July 8 as follows:
Berlin = 9 am
Tbilisi = 11 am
Delhi = 12:30 pm
Tokyo = 4 pm
Melbourne = 5 pm
Los Angeles = midnight (end of Tuesday July 7)
Zoom link = https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/68724552887?pwd=lxCUOxU9mV4j84IR
Call for Papers:
The Workshop on Complex predicate constructions across modalities will be held on Mon 12 Oct 2026 at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris and on visioconference.
Deadline for submission: 20 July 2026
Invited Speaker:
Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz)
https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/butt/
Workshop Topics:
Abstracts:
We invite submissions for 20 minute talks (+10min discussion) and posters in English.
Abstracts should not be longer than two pages (T
Call for Papers:
SLAGS is open for submissions! (Extended Deadline: midnight UK time, Friday the 10th of July)
SocioLinguistic Approaches to Gender and Sexuality is a free one-day student conference funded by the ESRC. We are pleased to announce that our call for paper is now open!
The SLAGS PGR conference will be welcoming abstract submissions from MA or PhD students on anything broadly related to the topic of gender and sexuality research across sociolinguistics (discourse, language
We are excited to announce the 4th Terminology Translation Shared Task, which will be held as part of the 11th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.
TL;DR
- Two tracks on terminology-aware document-level machine translation.
- Language pairs: Spanish鈫払asque, English鈫扨olish, and Traditional Chinese鈫扙nglish across engineering, medicine, and finance domains.
- Evaluation metrics: both general MT quality and terminology-oriented metri
We are excited to announce the 4th Terminology Translation Shared Task, which will be held as part of the 11th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary.
TL;DR
- Two tracks on terminology-aware document-level machine translation.
- Language pairs: Spanish鈫払asque, English鈫扨olish, and Traditional Chinese鈫扙nglish across engineering, medicine, and finance domains.
- Evaluation metrics: both general MT quality and terminology-oriented metri
Call for Papers:
Important Notice: The abstract submission deadline has been extended to July 15, 2026 (12:00 PM Beijing Time)!
The original deadline of July 1, 2026, has been extended to allow more time for preparing high-quality submissions.
The International Symposium on Language Science and Human Well-being (ISLSHW 2026) will be held on November 14, 2026, at City University of Hong Kong. It is jointly hosted by Tongji University, City University of Hong Kong, and the China Association
Please could all those interested in attending either in person or online email me (victoria.fendel@lmh.ox.ac.uk) such that I can make arrangements. There is no registration fee and we are happy to welcome guests.
Programme:
10:00 am Welcome and project overview (Victoria B. Fendel)
10:30 am Sanskrit (Andrea Farina & Alessandro Giudice) [in-person/online]
11:10 am Coffee Break
11:30 am Greek (Elena Squeri & Irene Vlastou) [online]
12: 10 pm Latin (Christopher Simon)
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