August 2024 - Corpora

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: - 2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Meaghan Fowlie* (Utrecht University) Title: *Trees as building instructions *Abstract: *Trees are very common linguistic representations, used for instance in rewrite grammars, X-Bar grammars, and lambda expressions. Trees can also be records of the steps by which a structure was built, for instance a derivation tree or a term over an algebra. These building instructions don’t have to build trees, but can build anything you like. This opens the possibility of using well-established and interpretable tree-prediction methods, such as dependency parsing, to predict a wide variety of structures. This talk will cover some subset of the following ways of using trees as building instructions: IRTGs, Minimalist Grammars, algebra terms, and rewrite grammars. It will also cover some subset of the following computational methods for predicting trees qua building instructions: the Apply-Modify Algebra and Minimalist parsing.* - 2024/10/16 *15:00-16:00* UTC+2: *Isabelle Dautriche* (CNRS) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2024/11/13 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Denis Paperno* (Utrecht University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

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CFP - SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by pbellan＠fbk.eu 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] ***Call for Papers: Knowledge and Natural Language Processing track*** We are pleased to invite you to submit your contribution to SAC 2025! The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track Aim & Scope Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural Language Processing * NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction * NLP for Ontology Population and Learning * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications * Interplay between Language and Ontologies * NLP for Explainable Knowledge * Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge * NLP for the Web * (Large) Language Models and Knowledge * Knowledge * Knowledge to improve NLP tasks * Knowledge for Information Retrieval * Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining * Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP * Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation * Knowledge for Persuasion * Knowledge-based Machine Translation * Knowledge for the Web * Linked Data for NLP * Knowledge-based NL Explainability * RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models * Applications * Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP * Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios * Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society * Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: * Digital Humanities and Social Sciences * eGovernment and public administration * Life sciences, health and medicine * News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website ( <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. Important Dates * Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 * Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 * Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona Programme Committee TBA General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ( <https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/> https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites ( <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at <mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> knlp(a)fbk.eu . -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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CfP: AIAI 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
by Beyza Yaman 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

AIAI 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2024) December 09-10th 2024 University College Dublin (UCD) https://aics2024.ucd.ie The 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2024) will be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD) and will take place from 9th to 10th December 2024. With regular conferences dating back to 1988, the AICS Conference is Ireland's primary forum for researchers with interests in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Submissions ------------------- The Program Committee of AICS2024 invites submissions in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: *Machine Learning (supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning, meta-learning, ensemble learning etc.) *Cognitive Science (Decision making, perception, concept combination, creative cognition etc.) *Applications (Computer Vision, speech/audio processing, natural language processing, ML for medicine, recommender systems etc. ) *Deep Learning (Network architectures, deep generative models, graph neural networks, foundation models etc.) *AI Ethics (Fairness, interpretability, transparency, explainability, environmental impact of AI etc.) *Datasets (Novel datasets, benchmarks, dataset audits, dataset design etc. ) *Machine Learning Testing (Safety, evaluation metrics, robustness etc. ) *Learning Theory (Optimisation, Bayesian Methods, Game Theory, Complexity Analysis etc. ) *Semantic Web (Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analysis etc.) We invite three types of submissions: -------------------------------------- *Full Paper Track: Full paper submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either fundamental research, interesting applications, in-use experiences, or reviews of the field) not published in other forums. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in online proceedings and authors will be invited for oral or poster presentations. *Student Track: This track is designed to facilitate students who have recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s program. Student track submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either basic research or interesting applications) and the first author must be a student. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in the online proceedings and authors will be invited for a poster presentation. *NECTAR Track: NECTAR track submissions should describe significant results previously published or disseminated no earlier than 2022 at a prestigious international conference or journal. Accepted submissions will be included in online proceedings as a single-page abstract, and authors will be invited to present their work orally at AICS. All accepted submissions in Full Paper Track and Student Paper Track will appear in online proceedings (TBA). Publication and Instructions for Authors ----------------------------------------- All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference, either orally or as posters, and included in the online conference proceedings. At least one author of each submission will be required to register for, and attend, the conference. All submissions must be made via the EasyChair system online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aics20240 Full papers and student papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format (single column proceedings), which is also the format required for the final camera-ready copy. A sample LaTeX document in this format is available here. NECTAR track submissions should consist of a single page with an abstract and reference to the original publication. A sample NECTAR track submission is available here. Important Dates ------------------- Paper Submission Deadline for all Tracks - 1st October 2024, 23:59 Irish time Acceptance Notification for all Papers - 29th October 2024 Camera Ready Submissions (all tracks) - 12th November 2024 Organisation ------------------- Arjun Pakrashi (University College Dublin) arjun.pakrashi(a)ucd.ie Ellen Rushe (Dublin City University) ellen.rushe(a)dcu.ie Brian Mac Namee (University College Dublin) brian.macnamee(a)ucd.ie Rob Brennan (University College Dublin) rob.brennan(a)ucd.ie Contacts ------------------- Website: https://aics2024.ucd.ie Twitter: @AICSconference ReplyForward

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Call for participation: Shared task on Predicting Disagreements in WiC Annotations
by Dominik Schlechtweg 24 Aug '24

24 Aug '24

Dear colleagues, The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses: Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Detection (OGWiC) Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Detection (DisWiC) The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it). The workshop will colocated with COLING 2025, where the results of the shared task will be presented. All information can be found on our website: https://comedinlp.github.io/ Everyone is cordially invited to participate. Feel free to approach us in case of any questions. Best, Dominik -- https://garrafao.github.io/ https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schlechtweg/

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[CFP] COLING 2025 - 3rd Call for Main Conference Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Third Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024 Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 Website: https://coling2025.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ ---------- CFP: The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Document Classification and Topic Modeling Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP Machine Translation and Translation Aids Multilingualism and Language Diversity Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) Natural Language Generation Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Lexical Semantics Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization and Simplification Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing) Vision and Robotics Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. Submission Details COLING 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. Anonymity Period COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the conference. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. General chairs, Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University Program co-chairs Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com

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Deadline extension: CRAC 2024: Workshop on Reference, Anaphora and Coreference at EMNLP 2024
by maciej.ogrodniczuk＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

<https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> CRAC 2024, the Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, will be held at EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/> in Miami on November 15, 2024. Important dates - Workshop papers due: September 1, 2024 (extended) - ARR commitment date: September 22, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: October 4, 2024 - Workshop date: November 15, 2024 About the workshop The CRAC workshop is a forum for presenting work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging reference resolution and discourse deixis. Since 2016, the annual CRAC <https://aclanthology.org/venues/crac/> (and its predecessor, CORBON <https://aclanthology.org/venues/corbon/> ) workshop has become the main forum for researchers interested in computational modelling of reference, anaphora and coreference to discuss and publish their results. Over the years, this workshop series has been held at major NLP conferences and has successfully organised 7 shared tasks, which stimulating interest in new problems in this research area, facilitating discussion and dissemination of results on new problems/directions (e.g. multimodal reference resolution). Topics of interest We are interested in your work on any aspect of theoretical or applied computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution. Some suggested topics include: - Coreference resolution for less-researched languages - Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references) - Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution - Coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media) - New applications of coreference resolution - <https://universalanaphora.github.io/UniversalAnaphora/> Universal Anaphora - CorefUD <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud> CRAC 2024 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution The workshop will also present the results of our Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac24> , based on 17 coreference datasets for 12 languages harmonized under a common CoNLL-U scheme. Paper categories - Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result) - Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution) - Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue) - Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years) - Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations) - Extended abstracts (describe work in progress) Double submission We allow for double submissions. Please indicate at the time of submission which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted to. We also invite authors of papers accepted for the Findings of major conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. If these papers have been removed from the Findings, they may be included in the workshop proceedings without further review. Submission link You can either submit your paper to SoftConf <https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/CRAC2024/> (by the August 22 submission deadline) or commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC 2024 (by the September 22 commitment deadline). If you choose to commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC, the latest ARR cycle to which you need to submit your paper for review is the June 2024 cycle. All submissions must follow the *ACL formatting instructions <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> . An Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling uistics-acl-conference/jvxskxpnznfj> is also available. All other information All other information can be found on the CRAC 2024 website <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> or by e-mailing the organizers <mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com> . See you at CRAC 2024! Maciej Ogrodniczuk (on behalf of all the organizers: Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, Anna Nedoluzhko and Massimo Poesio)

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What can we do about this spam :)?
by Daniel Varab 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

I’m hope that Jakob is enjoying some vacation-time, however, my mailbox is quickly filling up. Is there anything we can do to pause this spam? All the best, Daniel Varab

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BCS IRSG - call for one-day event proposals
by Tony Russell-Rose 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ONE DAY EVENT PROPOSALS The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline for this round: 02-Aug-2024 * Notification: 16-Aug-2024 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposals should be in PDF and include the following: * Title of the event * Chairs and organisers * Contact information * A description of the event topic and its goals * A statement on how the event complements or relates to other IR events * Proposed venue * Desired format, including preferred dates and duration, onsite or hybrid * Outline of the program (including talks, breaks, and any social events) * Potential (or accepted) speakers * Publicity plans * Funding plans and preliminary budget Organisers of accepted events are expected to announce the event and call for speakers, solicit speakers, compose the program, and organise the event. Evaluation criteria include topic significance and timeliness, scientific quality, proposed organisation, level of interest, and synergy with other events. Accepted events will be supported up to £1,000 and are expected to have a credible financial plan and budget. We anticipate holding further funding rounds in due course. Topics should be related to the theory and practice of information retrieval and interaction, such as: * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Interdisciplinary topics, e.g IR and information science, data science, or user experience * The use (and abuse) of large language models and other AI techniques * Domain-specific or professional issues, e.g. in eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, etc. * Innovative approaches used in operational IR systems and products Proposals and enquiries should be submitted via email to the IRSG Events Organiser and Chair (tgr2uk(a)gmail.com and Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de) with "BCS One Day Event Proposal" in the email subject. ABOUT THE IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. For how to join the IRSG please see http://irsg.bcs.org, or contact the membership secretary at h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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Canceled event: (No Subject) @ Thu Aug 22, 2024 10am - 11am (GMT+2) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Luffroy Raphaël 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

This event has been canceled. (No Subject) Thursday Aug 22, 2024 ⋅ 10am – 11am Central European Time - Paris Organizer Luffroy Raphaël r.luffroy(a)gmail.com Guests Luffroy Raphaël - organizer corpora(a)list.elra.info ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Deadline extension NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, Please notice the deadline extension for the next NARNiHS Annual Meeting in 2025. There is still time to submit your abstract! We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *NEW abstract submission deadline: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! —————————— Call for Abstracts —————————— The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12, 2025. *NEW! deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: ● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; ● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; ● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any questions. Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee).

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