Dear all,
We are glad to announce the publication of "Statistical Modeling for (Actual) Hypothesis Testing: Building Cumulative Knowledge in Corpus Linguistics" by Tove Larsson and Gregory R. Hancock in the Cambridge Elements in Corpus Linguistics series. It is freely downloadable until 11 August, using the following URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/statistical-modeling-for-actual-hyp…
Here is a summary of the Element:
By building knowledge in a deliberate and systematic manner, we can gain a more complete understanding of a given research area relevant to corpus linguists. Specifically, empirically informed hypotheses (i.e., hypotheses that result from a synthesis of findings from all relevant prior studies) play a key role in this endeavor in that they enable us to test to what extent generalizations from previous research are consistent with our results, or if we need to make adjustments to our existing knowledge or theory. In this Element, we aim to provide a practical and accessible introduction to select statistical methods for evaluating such empirically informed hypotheses. In particular, we illustrate techniques from the broader null-hypothesis significance testing framework (e.g., equivalence testing), and structural equation modeling framework (e.g., measured variable path analysis), with the goal of encouraging knowledge building in a more principled and systematic manner in corpus linguistics.
Best wishes,
Paul Baker & Gaëtanelle Gilquin (series editors)
Hello,
We are looking for a driven PhD candidate to work on NLP tools that help us change how we measure and mitigate bias in the media.
Instead of focusing solely on factual accuracy, this project shifts the paradigm to narrative and argumentative diversity.
Please share the job offering with potential candidates. Applications should only be made via the Inria website.
The PhD student will be part of CEDAR at Inria Saclay, France, in the Paris area.
[ https://lnkd.in/exXntevw ] [ https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 | https://recrutement.inria.fr/public/classic/en/offres/2026-10222 ]
Best regards,
Oana Balalau
Our department is looking for a Lecturer in French linguistics and language
(specialization open). Please read the job announcement here for more
information, and note that the application deadline is *July 30*:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/2404/
==> Only one more month to submit your abstract! <==
*** 2nd Call for Abstracts ***
*** NARNiHS 2027
*** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
*** Ninth Annual Meeting
*** 100% IN PERSON
*** Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
*** San Francisco, California, USA
*** 6-9 January 2027
This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual Meeting.
Consult this Call for Abstracts on the web: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3542 .
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Abstract submission online:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027
Deadline: Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:59 PM US Eastern time.
Late abstracts will not be considered.
The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 9th Annual Meeting. As a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS will hold its Annual Meeting sessions at the LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Wednesday-Saturday, 6-9 January 2027. The 9th edition of this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative environment where presenters bring fully developed work for presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a place for showcasing excellent projects in historical sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in productive development of the field's enduring questions.
NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application and/or development of sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models 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, methodologies, and adjacent disciplines easily find their place within historical sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope.
Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Accepted papers will be organized into thematic sessions that will be scheduled throughout the 4 days of the LSA conference; accepted posters will be scheduled together in the LSA poster gallery. Please note that, at NARNiHS events, poster presentations are an integral and equal part of the intellectual exchange (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.
Successful abstracts will demonstrate *thorough grounding* in historical sociolinguistics, *scientific rigor* in the formulation of research questions, and *promise for rich discussion* of ideas. Successful abstracts will be explicit about which *theoretical frameworks*, *methodological protocols*, and *analytical strategies* are being applied or critiqued. *Data sources and examples* should be sufficiently presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope and claims of the research. Please note that *the connection of your research to the field of historical sociolinguistics* should be explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract.
*** Abstract Format Guidelines ***.
- Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
- Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11-inch or A4 page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch (2.54 cm) and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire page to provide a full and robust description of the research. All additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed; abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page of supporting content will be rejected without review.
- Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation.
- Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure to also 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 the file before submission). Do not use your name as the file name when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names may not be automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Abstracts that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible will be rejected without review.
*** General Requirements ***.
- Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/submit/NARNiHS_2027
- Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract.
- Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in NARNiHS Sessions and at the LSA Annual Meeting or another LSA Sister Society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA).
- Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation.
- After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the abstract is printed in the conference booklet.
- Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research.
- Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.
14th International Global Wordnet Conference
Amsterdam, Netherlands
February 1-4, 2027
The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the 14th International Global Wordnet Conference (GWC2027), to be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from 1 to 4 February, 2026. The GWC2027 conference will be held under the auspices of the Global WordNet Association, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Important information about registration and participation for GWC2027 will be incrementally added to the conference website: https://cltl.github.io/GWC2027/
We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. This year’s special theme is language documentation: how can wordnets be used to support language documentation around the world. As such, we would like to invite submissions on this special. We hope this will foster collaboration and cross-pollination between the both fields.
Conference Topics
Lexical semantics and meaning representation
* Critical analysis and applications of lexical and semantic relations
* Proposed new relations
* Definitions, semantic components, co-occurrence and frequency statistics
* Word, sense, and context embeddings
* Necessity and completeness issues
* Ontology and wordnet
* Lexical semantics of emotions and other lexical fields of interest for lexical typology (e.g. body parts, colors, motion verbs, etc.)
* Wordnets and other modalities
* Wordnets and other theoretical frameworks for modelling lexical semantics
* Other lexicographical and lexicological questions pertaining to wordnet-style meaning representation
Architecture of lexical databases
* Language independent and language dependent components
* Integration of multi-wordnets in research infrastructures (e.g., CLARIN, ELG, ELRA, etc.)
* Wordnets and Linked Open Data (LOD)
Tools and methods for wordnet development
* User and data entry interfaces
* Methods for constructing, extending, and enriching wordnets
* Methods for linking wordnets to other lexical and semantic resources
* Methods for leveraging existing wordnets and semantic networks with large language models
* Methods for wordnet development specific for under-resourced languages
Applications of wordnet
* Word sense disambiguation
* Text generation
* Commonsense reasoning
* Machine translation
* Information extraction and retrieval
* Document structuring and categorization
* Text classification
* Automatic hyperlinking
* Language teaching
* Psycholinguistic applications
* Embeddings and pretrained language models
* Probing large language models
Standardization, distribution and availability of wordnets and wordnet tools
* Best practices for wordnet maintenance, standardization, and distribution
* Evaluation metrics for wordnet tools and resources
* Interoperability across wordnets and wordnet tools
* Licensing and legal considerations for wordnets distribution
* APIs and other web services for accessing wordnets
* Strategies for community involvement in wordnet standardization
Language documentation and wordnets
* Building wordnets for endangered, indigenous, and minority languages
* Representing culture-specific concepts, folk taxonomies, and indigenous knowledge systems through wordnets
* Integration of wordnet development with linguistic fieldwork tools (e.g., FLEx, ELAN, SayMore)
* Multimodal wordnets: Linking synsets to audio, video, and archival field recordings
* Wordnets as resources for language revitalization and community-based teaching
* Community-driven wordnet creation and participatory lexicography
* Overcoming data scarcity in wordnet construction for documented languages
* Ethical considerations, data sovereignty, and open access in endangered language wordnets
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Submissions should fall into one of the following categories (page limits exclude references):
* Long papers: 8 pages max, 30 minute presentation
* Short papers: 5 pages max, 15 minute presentation
* Project reports: 5 pages max, 10 minute presentation
* Demonstrations: 5 pages max, with up to 3 additional pages for screenshots or images, 20 minute presentation
Submissions must be anonymized, and any identifying information must be removed. Authors should indicate their preferred submission category; however, the final category of acceptance may be adjusted by the organising and scientific committees (e.g., if need be, a long paper submission may be accepted as a short paper). At least one author from each paper must register and present the paper in person in order for the paper to be included in the proceedings.
To enhance replicability and transparency, authors are encouraged to share the data and code used in their research, whenever possible in an anonymized form. We recommend exploring data repositories that support anonymization techniques and open-source code hosting platforms like GitHub<https://github.com/>.
Camera-ready and final papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only.
Paper submissions must adhere to the official ACL style templates available here for LaTeX and Word. Please also follow the general paper formatting guidelines established by the “*ACL” conferences available here<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>. Authors should not modify these style-sheet files or use templates designed for other conferences.
Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gwc2027
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Important Dates
* New Paper Submission Deadline: October 16, 2026
* Notification of Acceptance: November 27, 2026
* Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027
* Conference Dates: February 1-4, 2025
* Final Paper Submission for Proceedings: February 28, 2027
⏰ The deadline timezone is Anywhere on Earth<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>
*** Last Mile for Paper Submission for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/
The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working
on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability,
dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present
and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The
goals of the Doctoral Symposium are:
• Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and
guidance on future research directions;
• Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;
• Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and
practitioners in the software reliability engineering community.
The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from
a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium
students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of
completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical
research, etc.
The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the
supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2026 and participants in the Doctoral
Symposium will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their dissertation
research at the conference.
Who should participate
Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who
are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the
Doctoral Symposium.
Submissions
Each submission consists of two elements:
• Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored
by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments.
• Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in
support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment
of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs (issre2026-ds AT stefan-winter.net) with the subject
"ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".
Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work;
2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be
solved and the research questions to be answered; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief
description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense.
All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor
be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Formatting guidelines
Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer
Society Format Guidelines (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates).
Submissions must comply with IEEE’s author guidelines for AI-generated texts
(https://open.ieee.org/author-guidelines-for-artificial-intelligence-ai-gene…).
Process
All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2026 .
Please make sure to select the track on Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the
submission process.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium co-chairs. Authors of
submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral
Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2026
Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. In addition, authors of
accepted submissions will be given the opportunity to present a poster about their
dissertation research at the conference.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Submission deadline: July 29, 2026 (extended and final)
• Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2026
• Camera-ready copy submission: July 29, 2026
• Author registration deadline: August 19, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD
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The *Summer School on Methods to Advance Language Technologies (MALT)* will
take place on 25-28 August. This four-day event, co-organised by the
Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC) and Eindhoven Technical
University (TU/e), and supported by the LLMs4EU project, will focus on the
critical themes of *data and evaluation* in language technologies. It will
feature high-level speakers
<https://malt-summer-school-2026.eventmaker.io/speakers> and represents a
unique opportunity for participants to network and learn about how to move
the field of language technologies forward.
We invite you to share the information through your networks.
Key Details:
- Dates: *25-28 August* 2026 (participants are invited to *apply by 10
August*)
- Location: Château de *Villers-Cotterêts*, France
- Target Audience: *PhD students, young researchers, and industry
professionals* with an interest in advancing language technologies
- Participation Fee: *€350* (no VAT), including access to all sessions,
materials, meals, and networking events
Further details, including registration information, are available on
the Summer
School website <https://malt-summer-school-2026.eventmaker.io/>. For any
enquiries, please contact us at events(a)alt-edic.eu.
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Second Call for Main Conference Papers
*EACL 2027*: 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics
March 9-14, 2027, Athens, Greece
*Special Theme*: The Human in Language
*ARR submission deadline*: Aug 3, 2026
*EACL commitment deadline*: Oct 11, 2026
*Details*:
https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/
*Overview*
The 20th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (EACL 2027) invites the submission of long and
short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on
Natural
Language Processing. EACL 2027 will take place in Athens, Greece, from
March
9 to 14, 2027.
*Submission information*
EACL 2027 will use ACL Rolling Review (ARR) as its reviewing system, but
final
decisions will be made by the conference. Both the submission of
articles for
review and the commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be
handled via the OpenReview platform, in a two-step process:
*Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and
meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors.
* Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g.
EACL 2027),
where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions
from
the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
Papers must be submitted, at the latest, by the ARR 2026 August cycle.
Papers
that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the
ARR
2026 August cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to EACL via
the
commitment link. Dual submissions are not allowed.
The authors should contact ARR with any questions about the review
process at
editors [at] aclrollingreview.org.
For questions about commitment and
post-review topics, contact eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com.
*Important Dates*
*
*ARR submission deadline (long & short papers)*: 3 August 2026
*
*Reviewer registration deadline for ALL authors*: 5 August 2026
*
*Author response period*: 14 - 19 September 2026
*
*Reviewer engagement & author-reviewer discussion*: 20 - 24 September
2026
*
*Meta-reviews released*: 8 October 2026
*
*EACL 2027 commitment deadline*: 11 October 2026
All
deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
*Important
change*: For this cycle, author response and author-reviewer
discussion
are two separate stages. In the first (14-19 September 2026),
authors
take the time to respond to the reviewers; reviewers will not be
engaged
at this stage. In the second (20-24 September 2026), reviewers and
authors
engage in any necessary discussion and reviewers finalise their
reviews.
Further details will be provided in due time.
*Contact Information*
General Chair:
* Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
Program Chairs:
* Malvina Nissim, University of Groningen
* Roi Reichart, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
* Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
For questions related to paper submission and the review process in
general,
email: editors [at] aclrollingreview.org
For questions about commitment and post-review related topics, email:
eacl2027-pcs [at] googlegroups.com
Read more: https://2027.eacl.org/calls/papers/
LT4CPR: Language Technologies for Crisis Preparedness and Response @
AACL 2026 [1]
We invite submissions to the First Workshop on Language Technologies for
Crisis Preparedness and Response (LT4CPR) at AACL 2026. The workshop
focuses on advancing speech and language technologies that support
crisis preparedness, crisis response, communication in crises and
disaster risk reduction, and aims to bring together LT research
communities with crisis management stakeholders (such as practitioners,
NGOs, and industry) to bring to the fore interdisciplinary solutions
that have real-world impact.
In this first edition, we especially welcome work on:
* Identifying Community Needs: The crisis ecosystem is quite diverse,
composed by affected populations, policy-makers, NGOs, industry, public
officers, and emergency management.
* Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, design, and evaluation of
LT systems: insights from communication studies, social sciences,
psychology, among others, on how to design and evaluate trustworthy
crisis technology that fits stakeholders needs.
* Translating LT research into operational tools: how to go beyond AI
model development to user adoption of technology in high-stakes
scenarios.
* Ethics and societal implications of AI in crisis communication and
management.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We invite submissions that fall under the following list (but not
limited to):
* Research work on AI for crisis response, such as information
extraction (e.g., NER and geolocation), situational awareness (e.g.,
automated triage), and more
* Qualitative studies to understand user needs and guide technology
design
* Multilingual and multimodal research on crisis and humanitarian
initiatives
* Evaluation and deployment considerations
* Automatic approaches to enhance or facilitate communication from and
to communities during crisis (e.g., computational social media and news
analysis, summarization, translation, etc.)
* Position papers and literature surveys on current trends, challenges
and future directions
* Abstracts for talk proposals or field reports from practitioners,
NGOs, humanitarian organizations, and field experts, including
experience reports.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadlines are end-of-day in Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
time.
* Direct submission deadline: August 24, 2026
* ARR commitment deadline : August 31, 2026
* Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2026
* Camera-ready version due: October 10, 2026
* Workshop day: November 9, 2026
CONTACT
For questions, please contact: LT4Crisis(a)gmail.com
More information:
https://lt4cpr.github.io/aacl2026-workshop-LT4CPR/cfp.html
Links:
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[1] https://lt4cpr.github.io/aacl2026-workshop-LT4CPR/cfp.html