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Call for Bids to Host TPDL 2026 - applications due 13 December 2024
by Antoine Doucet 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Invitation to Tender for a TPDL Conference The Steering Committee of the TPDL conference invites interested parties to submit bids to host the TPDL 2026 Conference, held in conjunction as an event of the duration of 3 days. One additional day for workshops can be proposed. Please note that proposals may also may considered for TPDL 2027. Institutions submitting a bid for TPDL 2026 also commit themselves to collect the fees and manage the conference budget. TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,” embracing the whole spectrum of the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. From 2024, TPDL is expanding its scope to prominently include Document Analysis, Recognition and Information Retrieval, acknowledging the vital role of those research areas in the creation (by means of digitization and information extraction from heterogeneous sources), access, discovery, and dissemination of digital content. Parties interested in hosting TPDL are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the TPDL Steering Committee Chair (Antoine Doucet <antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr <mailto:<antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr>>) and Deputy Chair (Gianmaria Silvello<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it <mailto:<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it>>) by Friday, December 13th, 2024. The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Important dates: - Bid submission deadline: Friday, December 13th, 2024 - Feedback to bidders and discussion (if needed): January 2025 - Bid selection: February 2025 Proposals should cover the topics covered by the attached (proposed) template. Feel free to get in touch well ahead of submission. Best regards, Antoine Doucet and Gianmaria Sivello (Chair and Deputy Chair of the TPDL steering committee)

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
by Menno Van Zaanen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full details available here: https://bit.ly/3UeRf7h -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Estimado Manuel, adjunto información sobre un webinar relevante para los miembros de AEPIA. Agradecería que se distribuyera en la lista. gracias! un saludo oier & eneko **** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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ACL Anthology Graph
by Hugh Paterson III 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Greetings, Does anyone have a citation graph of the ACL Anthology? Kind regards, Hugh Paterson III

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Interspeech 2025: Call for papers
by Grzegorz Chrupała 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Papers https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-papers ============================================ Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Portal Open: 18 December 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 12 February 2025 Paper Update Deadline: 19 February 2025 Paper Acceptance Notification: 21 May 2025 Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from psycholinguistic theories of human speech processing to advanced applications of speech technology. The theme of Interspeech 2025 is “Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology” and aims to celebrate and incorporate the vast speech diversity both within and between individuals, as well as within and between languages. This theme emphasizes diversity as a source of richness and information, contributing to the development of fairer, more robust, and personalized speech technology applications and more accurate theories of human speech processing. By embracing this diversity, we can create theories and technologies that are inclusive of everyone, ensuring that speech science and technology benefit all individuals and communities. Interspeech 2025 will feature the usual oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events. Following Interspeech 2024 we will feature a Blue Sky track. New this year is a Speech Science Festival for the general public on the Sunday prior to Interspeech. Watch our website for more information in the coming months on how you can participate! Paper Submission Please note that the paper submission deadline is earlier than previous years because the conference is held in August. The paper submission deadline is February 12 2025. Interspeech 2025 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of human and machine speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references and acknowledgments only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the paper kit provided on the conference website (and as an overleaf template) and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Interspeech 2025 will follow a double-blind review process so papers submitted for review should not reveal the identity or affiliation of the authors. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole. If accepted, each paper needs to be presented by one of the authors during the in-person conference. Blue Sky Track Interspeech 2024 introduced the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers to assess the proposals. Venue Interspeech 2025 will take place at Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Center in the Netherlands. For more information, you can visit the website https://www.interspeech2025.org Scientific Areas and Topics Interspeech 2025 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics: ● Human Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition ● Speech Synthesis ● Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody ● Spoken Language Generation ● Paralinguistics in Speech and Language ● Automatic Speech Recognition ● Analysis of Conversation ● Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems ● Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders ● Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization ● Speaker and Language Identification ● Technologies and Systems for New Applications ● Speech and Audio Signal Analysis ● Resources and Evaluation ● Speech Coding and Enhancement ● Speech and Language Processing for Health ● Beyond traditional speech topics (not limited to the provided list) Contact For questions regarding the technical programme: TPC-chairs(a)interspeech2025.org For general questions: pco(a)interspeech2025.org

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II Andaluz.IA Forum - Deadline extension
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

==================================================================== CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum December 20, 2024, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén) *Deadline for submissions of papers extended to October 27, 2024* ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and several Andalusian researchers currently at other national and international institutions, we are organizing the II Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia2023/> was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville and this year it will take place at Universidad de Jaén. With this second edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 20, 2024 at the Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers>. IMPORTANT DATES ● *Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2024 October 27, 2024* ● Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2024 ● Deadline for registration at a reduced rate: November 15, 2024 CONTACT INFORMATION maite(a)ujaen.es sjzafra(a)ujaen.es ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #13
by Costas Gabrielatos 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 15 November 2024, 2-4 pm (GMT) Topic: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies 2-3 pm Katia Adimora (Edge Hill University) Mexican immigration/immigrants in American and Mexican newspapers 3-4 pm Dan Malone (Edge Hill University) When is the extreme also typical? Using prototypicality to investigate representations of the lone-wolf terrorist Attendance is free. The abstracts and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Registration closes on Wednesday 13 November, 11 am (GMT). ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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2nd CfP: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets
by sil.linguist＠gmail.com 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We want to address pertinent issues impacting the indexing (for citation) and interoperability of datasets (for sustainability). WS Title: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 Workshop Type: in-person Organizers: Hugh Paterson III & Oksana Zavalina Abstract Deadline: October 18th EXTENDED NEW DEADLINE NOV 7th. Abstract Details: up to 800 words excluding references. Submission: Email PDF of abstracts to both i(a)hp3.me and oksana.zavalina(a)unt.edu with [ICHL27 w8] in the subject line. Note: Workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organizers to permit this format. Workshop Website: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-d… Conference Website: https://ichl27santiago.cl PDF of Workshop abstract: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-d… Publication: We are pursuing publication via edited volume post-workshop. ==Goal & Questions== The role of library models (e.g., IFLA-LRM: Riva, Le Bœuf, and Žumer 2017) and archival practice (e.g., lifecycle management: Higgins 2012) is under-explored in relation to the construction and reuse of Historical Linguistic Information Sources. This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. What are the design patterns within datasets? What are the categories used? and what are their scopes? What are the kinds of objects subsumed into datasets? ==Background== Significant advances have been made in historical linguistics through the use of large compiled datasets (e.g., Kamholz et al. 2024; Tresoldi 2023; Arora et al. 2023; Dellert et al. 2020; Greenhill 2015; Segerer and Flavier 2013; Mielke 2008; Greenhill, Blust, and Gray 2008). While not precluding the contributions of single historical manuscripts and traditional manuscript consultation methods, the use of and creation of datasets (including corpora) has become the defacto way of generating new hypotheses (Wichmann and Saunders 2007; Steiner, Cysouw, and Stadler 2011; Segerer 2015). Datasets in historical linguistics generally do two things: (1) record critical researcher-created information such as reconstructed forms, cognacy judgments, confidence levels, along with contextual notes; and (2) contain foundational content from sources not created by the dataset compiler. Such source material often include historically published and unpublished resources including: maps (Hessle and Kirk 2020), language specific lexicons and published reconstructions (Kamholz et al. 2024), wordlists (Forkel et al. 2024; Segerer and Flavier 2013), transcriptions of manuscripts and texts (Weber et al. 2023; Genee and Junker 2018; Kytö 2011), and even reconstructions by other scholars, etc. Interactional platform-tools such as RefLex (Segerer and Flavier 2013) or OUTOFPAPUA (Kamholz et al. 2024) allow users to create custom datasets based on specific selected resources available to the platform. They do this without requiring users to interact with the complete set of underlying resources and/or the platforms allow users to create new derivative aggregate collections (reconstructed forms and cognacy relations) independent of other platform users. Citing, referencing, and redistributing these custom datasets is challenging and impacts the verifiability of claims. It is broadly accepted across linguistic research that scholarly work—including evidence— should be citable, accessable, and reusable (Bird and Simons 2003). Together these issues impact reproducibility, an important tenet in scholarship often overlooked in linguistics (Berez-Kroeker et al. 2018). However, it is also well acknowledged that the citation and reference of original source material for linguistic evidence is lacking across the field (Gawne et al. 2017). More specifically in historical-comparative linguistics, the context of citation and referencing of the evidentiary record along with current dataset assemblage and distribution practices generally do not support fine-grained or Work-oriented citation and referencing. This often means that specific and necessary details in comparative linguistics are not retrievable. Therefore, the data models embedded within historical comparative datasets become all the more important for the reproducibility of work and the testing, verification, and refinement of hypotheses (Bakro-Nagy 2010). With the exception of leading work around Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF) use with historical-comparative data (Forkel et al. 2018; Forkel, Swanson, and Moran 2024) and approaches using linked data in linguistics (Kesäniemi et al. 2018; Tittel, Gillis-Webber, and Nannini 2020), the literature has been silent about the storage formats for historical-comparative data. Undiscussed are the information categories represented in historical comparative linguistic datasets. The informatic arrangement and description of compiled datasets has generally been ad-hoc and served the needs of individually-funded projects. This has resulted in a proliferation of divergent data categories mitigating against ease-of-reuse. We set out to ignite discussion around compilations of manuscripts, wordlists, and other derivative resources which have become mainstream tools in hypothesis generation related to the language evolution. We explore the heretofore unapproached contribution that models such as Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI), illustrated in figure 1, from library and information science (Coyle 2023; Riva, Le Bœuf, and Žumer 2017; IFLA, 1998) can offer those who compile, and cite/reference aggregate linguistic resources. Specifically, clarifying linking relationships between the literature and datasets, including dataset portions. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. Figure 1. Is available at the workshop website and the abstract in PDF form. ==References== Arora, Aryaman, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu, and Suresh Kolichala. 2023. “Jambu: A Historical Linguistic Database for South Asian Languages.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02514. Bakro-Nagy, Marianne. 2010. “Data in Historical Linguistics: On Utterances, Sources, and Reliability.” Sprachtheorie Und Germanistische Linguistik 20.2: 133-195., January. https://www.academia.edu/3629841/Data_in_historical_linguistics_On_utteranc…. Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, et al. 2018. “Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field.” Linguistics 56 (1): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032. Bird, Steven, and Gary F. Simons. 2003. “Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description.” Language 79 (3): 557–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0149. Coyle, Karen. 2023. “openWEMI.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Dublin, Ohio: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. https://doi.org/10.23106/DCMI.953115290. Dellert, Johannes, Thora Daneyko, Alla Münch, Alina Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew, et al. 2020. “NorthEuraLex: A Wide-Coverage Lexical Database of Northern Eurasia.” Language Resources and Evaluation 54 (1): 273–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09480-6. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, and Russell D. Gray. 2018. “Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, Advancing Data Sharing and Re-Use in Comparative Linguistics.” Scientific Data 5 (1): 180205. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.205. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Christoph Rzymski, and Guillaume Segerer. 2024. “Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists.” In _Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 10578–83. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.925. Forkel, Robert, Daniel G. Swanson, and Steven Moran. 2024. “Converting Legacy Data to CLDF: A FAIR Exit Strategy for Linguistic Web Apps.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 3978–82. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.353. Gawne, Lauren, Barbara F. Kelley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Tyler Heston. 2017. “Putting Practice into Words: The State of Data and Methods Transparency in Grammatical Descriptions.” Language Documentation & Description 11:157–89. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24731. Genee, Inge, and Marie-Odile Junker. 2018. “The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary Project: Creating Integrated Web Resources for Language Documentation and Revitalization.” Language Documentation & Conservation 12:274–314. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770. Greenhill, Simon J. 2015. “TransNewGuinea.Org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages.” PLOS ONE 10 (10): e0141563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141563. Greenhill, Simon J., Robert Blust, and Russell D. Gray. 2008. “The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics.” Evolutionary Bioinformatics 4 (January):EBO.S893. https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S893. Hessle, Christian, and John Kirk. 2020. “Digitising Collections of Historical Linguistic Data: The Example of The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland.” Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.5611. Higgins, Sarah. 2012. “The Lifecycle of Data Managment.” In Managing Research Data, edited by Graham Pryor, 17–46. London, UK: Facet Publishing. 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50th Anniversary Public Lecture Series: The shared anti-science discourses
by Hardaker, Claire (hardakec) 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

With the usual apologies for any cross-posting: In the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, we’re celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2024. In a series of public lectures, we will showcase our recent research in different areas of linguistics. Everyone is welcome! Our next talk should be of particular interest to corpus linguists, forensic linguists, researchers broadly interested in the security and protection sciences: The shared anti-science discourses, by Dr Isobelle Clarke<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/isobelle-clarke> Anti-science discourse has been studied through the optic of particular governments (Carter et al., 2019) or specific topics, such as anti-vaccination (Davis, 2019), anti-genetically modified organisms (Cook et al. 2004), stem cell research (Marcon, Murdoch and Caulfield, 2017), and climate denial discourse (Park, 2015). This research often details the development and content of the anti-science position and discourses. Yet, little is known about how the discourses compare across topics. Are there anti-science discourses that are shared across topics or does the discourse vary with the topic? In this talk, I will present the results of the common discourses which are shared between texts from websites known to promote pseudoscience and conspiracy on the topics of stem cells, climate change, vaccination and genetically modified organisms. For details of this talk and the upcoming programme, please visit our 50th anniversary website<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50th-anniversary/>. Register Register here<https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/68278> to attend. Date and time 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+01), Thursday 24th October 2024 Location Faraday Lecture<https://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&config=lancaster&campusid=341&zlevel=1&center=…> Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW Getting to the University More information on ways to get to the university can be found here<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-travel/>. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Regards Claire Professor Claire Hardaker (she/her) Professor of Forensic Linguistics Director of the MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/forensi…> Lancaster University, LA1 4YL

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