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WoLaLa 2026: Final Call for Papers
by Héja Enikő 19 May '26

19 May '26

Final Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models (WoLaLa) Dubrovnik, Croatia | October 12-13 The ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Croatian Language Technologies Society invite submissions to the 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models. As the submission deadline approaches, we encourage researchers and practitioners in the social sciences and humanities to contribute extended abstracts and take advantage of the opportunity to hear from our distinguished keynote speakers. Keynote speakers: Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen William Lamb, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Contributions should address one or more of the following areas (but submissions on other closely related topics are also welcome): General language models: Critical and comparative analyses of state-of-the-art language models, including their linguistic competence, performance, and limitations. Cultural and linguistic perspectives: Investigations into the cultural, cognitive, and scientific aspects of language processing, including the unexplored territories of model behavior and linguistic capability. Applications and best practices: Case studies and best practices in applying AI to language research, highlighting the potential for cross-disciplinary innovation within SSH. Bridging disciplines: Contributions that examine the role of language models in reshaping traditional SSH methodologies, and proposals on integrating AI insights into linguistic inquiry. IMPORTANT DATES 20 May 2026 31 May 2026: Submission deadline 08 August 2026: Notification of acceptance 12 October – 13 October 2026: Workshop in Dubrovnik 15 December 2026: Full paper submission deadline Submissions We expect submissions in the form of extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sbmczvkpxpzz#4a94e3). Please ensure your submission clearly outlines your research question, methodology, and preliminary findings. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the topics listed above Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct; methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia (chair) António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany András Kornai, HUN-REN Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa, Italy Csaba Pléh, Central European University, Austria Gábor Prószéky, ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics & Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, United Kingdom Frédérique Segond, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France Dan Tufiș, Romanian Academy, Romania Hans Uszkoreit, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany Tamás Váradi, ELTE Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom LINKS 2nd International Workshop on Language and Language Models website: https://wolala.nytud.hu <https://wolala.nytud.hu/> EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wolala2026 Template for submissions: ZIP-archive: https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2026.zip <https://wolala.nytud.hu/templates/WoLaLa2025.zip> Overleaf template: <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f>https://www.overleaf.com/read/prvhqbxdgmxq#374f7b Contact for any questions regarding the conference: info(a)wolala.nytud.hu

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Search Solutions 2026 — Special Anniversary Edition (Call for Proposals)
by Udo Kruschwitz 19 May '26

19 May '26

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2026 (Call for Proposals) Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval — and this has been the case for 20 years now! 20 year already? Trace back the history via our historic Informer newsletter: https://www.bcs.org/media/7498/informer21.pdf We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the information retrieval (IR) community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2026 will be held at the BCS London office on Wednesday 25th November with tutorials on Tuesday 24th (https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2026/november/search-solutions-2026/). SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We solicit speaker proposals for talks around the following categories: * Innovative approaches used in IR production systems and products * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Implications of generative AI and large language models * Interdisciplinary collaborations, bridging areas such as information science, data science, user experience, and artificial intelligence * IR practice within different professional communities, spanning eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, and beyond * Case studies showcasing best practices, design principles, evaluation techniques, and practical implementations in the field of information retrieval We encourage presentations from startups and open-source projects. The presentation format of the event will be a combination of presentations, panels and discussions. Proposals should be no more than 1 page and include: * Title * Abstract * Main contribution & take-aways for attendees * A short bio of the presenter and/or a brief organisation outline Proposals should be emailed to udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de cc’ing tgr2uk(a)gmail.com. There will be a separate call for tutorial presentations. IMPORTANT DATES * Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE) * Talk proposal due: 5 July * Notifications: 19 July ORGANISERS * Ingo Frommholz * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) PAST EVENTS For a summary of last year’s event, see: https://medium.com/bcs-irsg-informer/looking-back-at-search-solutions-2025-… For further details of previous events with links to slides and videos please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Mile for Journal First Papers Submission
by Announce 19 May '26

19 May '26

*** Last Mile for Journal First Papers Submission *** International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) 29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina Limassol, Cyprus https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026 The VARIABILITY conference series brings together the communities previously served by ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS, forming a unified venue for research on variability, configuration, customization, and related disciplines in software and systems engineering. VARIABILITY 2026 invites Journal-First presentations of papers recently published in leading software engineering journals, including TSE, TOSEM, IST, EMSE, JSS, ASEJ, SoSyM, and reputable open-access journals. This initiative provides authors with the opportunity to engage directly with the VARIABILITY community, while offering attendees a richer and more diverse program. The Journal-First papers remain published in their respective journals, and a one-page summary will be included in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings with a pointer to the original publication. Scope To qualify for a Journal-First presentation at VARIABILITY 2026, a paper must meet these criteria: • It was published on the publisher’s website between May 2024 and March 2026. • It fits within the scope of VARIABILITY 2026, as described in the research track call (https://conf.researchr.org/track/variability-2026/variability-2026-papers#C…), and can bring new insights or directions to the community. • It presents new research results or significant extensions of prior work that have not been presented at SPLC, VaMoS, or ICSR before. • It has not been presented at, and is not under review for, Journal-First Tracks of other related conferences. How to Submit Authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a short proposal for presentation. The proposal should be one page and include the following: • Paper title, authors, extended abstract, and a link or DOI to the original journal paper. • If the journal paper builds on or is related to previously published work (such as a poster or tool demo), the proposal must clearly explain why it should be considered a Journal- First paper. • All proposals must be submitted as a PDF via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=variability2026 (Journal-First Track). • Please upload both the proposal PDF and a ZIP file containing the original journal paper. Accepted abstracts will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 Companion Proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series. A Journal-First proposal must be at most one page long and it must follow the Springer guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . By submitting your abstract for inclusion in these proceedings, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors must comply with Springer’s publications policies (https://www.springer.com/gp/editorial-policies) including requirements related to research integrity, copyright, and ethical standards. Any alleged violations of these policies may be investigated by Springer and could result in corrective actions, including withdrawal of the paper. Evaluation and Selection Proposals will be selected based on the quality of the publication and the journal, after confirming that the paper fits the scope of the conference. Since the papers have already been peer-reviewed and accepted by their journals, they will not undergo another technical review. The goal is to include as many papers as possible in the Journal-First Track. However, if an unusually high number of papers are received, some might not be accepted. If needed, priority will be given to papers that best align with the conference topics of interests and the structure of the sessions. Conference Attendance For each paper accepted into the Journal-First Track, at least one author must register for the conference and attend to give the oral presentation. Important Dates (AoE) • Submission of Papers: 1 June 2026 • Notification of Acceptance: 22 June 2026 • Camera-Ready Submission: 15 July 2026 • Author Registration: 15 July 2026 Organisation General Chairs • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium Research Track Chairs • Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany • Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany Industry Track Chairs • Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Journal First Track Chairs • Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France • Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs • Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel Demos and Tools Track Chairs • Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco Projects Showcase Chairs • Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden • Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France Hall of Fame Chairs • Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany • Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland • Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Workshops Chairs • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain • Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany Tutorials Chairs • Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands • Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Proceedings Chair • Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK Publicity Chairs • Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA • Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan Local Organiser and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026
by Gabriella Lapesa 18 May '26

18 May '26

######################################################################################################### 2nd Call for papers: Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS) @ KONVENS 2026 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2026konvens/home-page ######################################################################################################### This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science, to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities. ### Special Theme: Human Perspectives and LLMs #### We specifically invite submissions on this year’s special theme, focusing on the highly debated issue of simulation of human perspectives with LLMs. ### General topics ### In addition to the special theme, we also welcome submissions on the following general topics to CPSS: ▪ Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods ▪ Political and social bias in language models ▪ Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) ▪ Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources ▪ Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices ▪ NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making ▪ Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research ▪ Validation of results beyond the train-dev-test paradigm of NLP and data science. ▪ Data quality in human and synthetic data ▪ Data leakage and contamination, especially in LLMs ▪ New ways to collect data, i.e., dataset donation ▪ Open science and reproducibility within the CPSS research ▪ and many more ... ### PhD Forum ### CPSS will feature a dedicated PhD Forum inviting submissions from doctoral researchers who wish to present their thesis topic. We warmly welcome contributions from PhD students at all stages of their doctorate, from those who are just beginning to develop their project to those with more advanced work in progress. ### Submission ### We solicit three types of submissions: ▪ archival papers describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published on the ACL anthology. For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS guidelines. We will also accept ARR submissions with reviews (see below for Important Dates) ▪ non-archival papers (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work ▪ non-archival PhD project presentations (2-pages abstracts, references excluded) describing the idea, topic, and current state of the PhD project. The three formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations. ### Important dates ### ▪ Submission deadline (direct submission, archival and non archival): July 3rd ▪ Submission deadline ARR (archival only!): July 15th ▪ Notification of acceptance: August 7th ▪ Camera ready deadline: August 15th ▪ Workshop: September 2026 (precise date to be confirmed) ### Organizers ### ▪ Dennis Assenmacher, GESIS ▪ Agnieszka Faleńska, University of Stuttgart ▪ Christopher Klamm, University of Mannheim & Cologne Center of Comparative Politics ▪ Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf HHU Düsseldorf ▪ Simone Paolo Ponzetto University of Mannheim ▪ Franziska Weeber, University of Stuttgart ### Sponsorship ### We acknowledge the support of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS).

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AIST conference announcement
by Maxim Panov 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear colleagues, We are excited to invite you to submit a paper to AIST 2026, the 13th research conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts, which will take place on October 16–18, 2026 at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. The conference is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in data science, focusing on innovative applications of data analysis and machine learning techniques to image processing, analysis of network data, text processing, and other domains, such as economics or geographic information systems. The twelve previous editions of the AIST conference held in 2012–2024 attracted a significant number of students, researchers, academics, and engineers working on the analysis of images, texts, and social networks. Similar to the previous years, the main volume of the conference proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The companion volume will be published in Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). For reference, the proceedings of the previous edition are available here<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://link.springer.com/conference/aist__;!!J…>. Traditionally, the conference has no registration fee making a publication of accepted papers free of charge with Springer. We are encouraging submission on any application of AI, deep learning, and data analysis including, but not limited to, the following topics: * Analysis of images and video * Analytics for geoinformation systems * Core data mining and machine learning techniques * Discovering and analyzing processes using event data * Deep learning applications * Educational data mining * Game analytics * Machine learning and data mining for economics and social sciences * Natural language processing and computational linguistics * Optimization problems in complex networks * Recommender systems and collaborative technologies * Semantic web and ontologies * Social network analysis Important Dates * Abstract deadline: July 1, 2026 * Submission deadline: July 10, 2026 * Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2026 * Camera-ready papers due: August 18, 2026 * Conference dates: October 16–18, 2026 All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submission All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Papers formatted in Springer LNCS template should be submitted through the OpenReview conference management system (see detailed instructions at the web site). We strongly encourage offline participation in Astana, but virtual presentations will be also allowed. Important links * Website: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aistconf.org/__;!!J2_iJ0WgAoU!eH8RezRbW…> https://aistconf.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aistconf.org/__;!!J2_iJ0WgAoU!eH8RezRbW…> * Submission: <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org*AI…> https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org/AIST/2026/Conference<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://openreview.net/group?id=aistconf.org*AI…> * Contact: org(a)aistconf.org<mailto:org@aistconf.org> Best regards, AIST 2026 Organizing Committee

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AraGenre 2026 shared task - First Call for Participation
by El-Haj, Mo 18 May '26

18 May '26

Dear all, I'm pleased to announce our new shared task at ArabicNLP @ EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungry, October 24-29, 2026. AraGenre: A Hierarchical Definition-Guided Arabic Genre Classification Shared Task AraGenre is a challenging shared task designed to test how NLP systems generalise to the unseen through: • Few-shot training and development data • Cross-lingual genre definitions guiding Arabic classification • A large hidden test set of naturally occurring Arabic texts • Unseen genre-definition combinations The task addresses a wider challenge in NLP: building methods that can generalise from limited data and support languages and varieties that remain underrepresented in current NLP research. Registration now open: https://forms.gle/RAi7SpYoRD5RgUnP6 AraGenre Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/16356 Organisers: - Mo El-Haj, VinUniversty, Vietnam / Lancaster University, UK. - Saad Ezzini, KFUPM, KSA - Mustafa Jarrar, HBKU, Qatar - Shadi Abudalfa, KFUPM, KSA

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Call for Abstracts – 2nd Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting CPL 2026
by Takmaz, E.K. (Ece) 18 May '26

18 May '26

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting Conference website: https://cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/ We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of a new recurring workshop dedicated exclusively to computational psycholinguistics. The field has seen significant growth in recent years, not only due to developments in large language models but also to advances in symbolic processing models, Bayesian approaches, mechanistic models, and frameworks such as ACT-R. These diverse models aim to capture various aspects of human language processing, including semantics, syntax, sentence comprehension, speech, and more. This meeting aims to provide a dedicated platform for researchers and practitioners to discuss computational models that explain and predict human linguistic behavior (e.g., as observed in psycholinguistic experiments), to bring together experts from different subfields to advance our understanding of language processing mechanisms, and to analyze the successes and limitations of different modeling approaches. The meeting will cover a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Exploring how models like (large) language models, symbolic models, Bayesian models, connectionist models, and ACT-R based models can explain and predict human behavior in language tasks. - Analyzing where different types of models succeed or fall short in capturing human language processing. - Investigating what linguistic information should be integrated across different levels (words, sentences, discourse) and how this affects comprehension and production - Examining the potential of models that combine neural and symbolic approaches to better mimic human language processing. - Applying computational, algorithmic, and implementational levels of analysis to understand language processing mechanisms. - Focusing on recent developments in computational modeling of semantics, syntax, sentence processing, speech perception and production. The abstract submission deadline is July 3. The abstracts can be submitted at https://openreview.net/group?id=UU.nl/Utrecht_University/2026/CPL Next to the conference abstracts, we are also looking for abstracts for tutorials, which could cover any topic related to computational psycholinguistics and should be planned to run for between 1 and 3 hours. The tutorial abstracts will have the same submission deadline as the main conference, July 3. The conference will take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on December 3 and December 4, and it will be preceded by tutorials on the afternoon of December 2. Best regards, CPL Organizing Committee Jakub Dotlacil (Utrecht University) Li Kloostra (Utrecht University) Philine Link (Utrecht University) Ece Takmaz (Utrecht University) Giovanni Cassani (Tilburg University) Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University) Lena Jäger (University of Zurich)

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HealTAC 2026 - Final Call for Participation
by Jaya Chaturvedi 18 May '26

18 May '26

-------------------------------------------- HealTAC 2026 June 8-10th, 2026, Brighton (UK) https://healtac2026.github.io/ -------------------------------------------- We are delighted to share that the conference programme is now almost complete and available on the conference website<https://healtac2026.github.io/programme/>, featuring over 50 contributions on healthcare text analytics, alongside two keynote talks and two pre-conference workshops. Additional workshop details will be added soon. We are also pleased to announce that keynote speaker bios are now available online. -------------------------------------------- Keynote Speakers -------------------------------------------- We are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers: * Professor Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter) * Dr Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Their talks will provide inspiring perspectives on this year’s theme: Human-Centered AI & NLP: Bridging Research and Real-World Practice. -------------------------------------------- Registration & Accommodation -------------------------------------------- We hope many of you were able to take advantage of the early-bird registration rates, which are now closed. Registration remains open, and participants can still register at the standard rate. Full registration<https://healtac2026.github.io/registration/> and accommodation<https://healtac2026.github.io/accommodation/> details are available on the conference website: : https://healtac2026.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------ Pre-Conference Workshops (June 8, 2026) ------------------------------------------------------ Workshop 1: Free-text healthcare data and Trusted Research Environments (TREs) Focused on the safe and responsible use of free-text healthcare data within Trusted Research Environments (TREs), this session will showcase DARE UK–funded projects (STAR-TRE, FORTRESS, TRExt, SAFETEXT), highlighting emerging tools and best practices for secure, privacy-preserving text analytics. Workshop 2: From patient narratives to insights: applying text analytics to scalable lived experience data for new discoveries An interactive two-hour workshop organized by Dr Saskia Sanderson<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson> <https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/saskia-sanderson> exploring how text analytics can be applied to patient-reported narratives and lived experience data at scale, bringing together perspectives from NLP, behavioural science, qualitative research, PPIE, and policy communities. ------------------ Key Dates ------------------ * Pre-conference workshops: June 8, 2026 * Conference: June 9–10, 2026 --------------------------------------------- Registration Fees -------------------------------------------- * Full registration: £340 * Student registration: £190 The fee includes participation across all three days (including the pre-conference workshop day), lunches, and the conference dinner on 9 June 2026. Follow conference announcements on social media using #HEALTAC2026. We look forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2026 in Brighton! Jaya Chaturvedi BDS MSc PhD Research Fellow in Health Related Natural Language Processing Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Jah-yah Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi Bluesky: @Jayachatur.bsky.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayachaturvedi/ [cid:97A5FED0-D2CD-4120-AC63-21083F54B7BB] If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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New open-access '‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’
by Alan Scott Partington 18 May '26

18 May '26

The open-access, not-for-profit 3rd ed of ‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’ (Alan Partington, Bologna University) is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19732222 This Essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for persuasion, through the different scepticisms of Plato and the Scholastics, to Humboldt’s insight that language is a ‘formative organ of thought’, it follows how successive thinkers imagined the relationship between words, meaning and knowledge. It explores the empirical turn of the Enlightenment, the structural revolutions of the nineteenth century, and the language-conscious philosophy of the twentieth, before concluding with reflections on Large Language Models and their future coexistence with Corpus Linguistics. Written for linguists, philosophers of all stripes and digital humanities alike, the Essay argues that corpus linguistics represents a continuation of a long humanist project: using authentic language data to uncover ‘non-obvious meanings’ and to refine our understanding of mind, society and communication. Alan Scott Partington, Prof di Linguistica inglese https://site.unibo.it/sibol-project/en/members

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New open-access essay: A Short History of the Philosophies of Language Underpinning Corpus Linguistics Alan Partington (UniBo)
by alanscott.partington＠unibo.it 18 May '26

18 May '26

The open-access, not-for-profit 3rd ed of ‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’ (Alan Partington, Bologna University) is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19732222 This Essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics. From Aristotle’s conception of language as a tool for persuasion, through the different scepticisms of Plato and the Scholastics, to Humboldt’s insight that language is a ‘formative organ of thought’, it follows how successive thinkers imagined the relationship between words, meaning and knowledge. It explores the empirical turn of the Enlightenment, the structural revolutions of the nineteenth century, and the language-conscious philosophy of the twentieth, before concluding with reflections on Large Language Models and their future coexistence with Corpus Linguistics. Written for linguists, philosophers of all stripes and digital humanities alike, the Essay argues that corpus linguistics represents a continuation of a long humanist project: using authentic language data to uncover ‘non-obvious meanings’ and to refine our understanding of mind, society and communication.

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