We are delighted to share with you the Second Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026.
Call for Panels:
We are now inviting proposals for:
- Panels (thematic sessions with several papers)
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Panel proposals should be sent to t
Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina.
FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc
We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open.
TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas
Built an LLM for so many languages, but how could you evaluate it? This workshop brings together the community to answer this question through three goals:
- Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies;
- Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability;
- Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation.
Call for Papers:
We invite archi
We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open.
TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas
Built an LLM for so many languages, but how could you evaluate it? This workshop brings together the community to answer this question through three goals:
- Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies;
- Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability;
- Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation.
Call for Papers:
We invite archi
Call for Papers:
Running since 2018, the Language Policy Forum is an international conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from around the world, working across the broad field of language policy. It is organised by the Language Policy Special Interest Group within the British Association of Applied Linguistics (https://langpol.ac.uk).
Location: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Plenary Speakers:
- Lily Chimuanya, Covenant University, Nigeria
- Andrew Shor
Call for papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database
Thematic session at BICLCE11
Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de
Lukas S枚nning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de
Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de
In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Mart铆nez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This is p
AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL.
The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP 鈥� covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties 鈥� while also suppo
Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to support a large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative on the topic of "Common Ground" at the University of T眉bingen. The project seeks to investigate the notion of common ground in linguistic communication by taking an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from, e.g., the philosophy of language, the cognitive language sciences, linguistic pragmatics, and/or formal logic or epistemology. The ide
Call for papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database
Thematic session at BICLCE11
Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de
Lukas S枚nning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de
Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de
In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Mart铆nez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This is p
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