Corpora September 2026

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Immigrant and Emigrant Correspondence - Call for papers
by christopher.fitzgerald＠mic.ul.ie 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Digital Correspondence Community Interest Group are hosting a free, online event about immigrant and/or emigrant correspondence. When: Thursday, 14 January 2027, 10.00-13.00 This event is open to everyone interested in this topic, including (but not limited to) linguists, historians, digital humanities researchers and education researchers/teachers. Postgraduate students are also welcome. You can either attend as an audience member or present. The event will also feature a lead speaker (details below). Your presentation can range from 5-15 minutes, and can be a work in progress report, or a paper with more concrete findings. To attend, please fill in the registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_3-vgvd9cUR_I1uAB3iU-oHE_1K2i6Oh…. Personal data will be kept on a secure, confidential Google form and will be deleted after the event. If you would like to present, please also send a title and a short abstract (150-200 words) to imogen.marcus(a)edgehill.ac.uk by Friday 4th December 2026. Any questions in the meantime, please get in touch with Imogen at the above email or co-coordinator Chris Fitzgerald (christopher.fitzgerald(a)mic.ul.ie). Research areas might include: (historical) sociolinguists; (historical) pragmatics, (historical) semantics, (historical) discourse analysis, oral history, history ‘from below’, digital humanities approaches. A variety of methodological perspectives and approaches are welcomed, e.g. quantitative, qualitative, philological, corpus linguistic, ethnographic, archival, multi-modal. The event is open to researchers working on correspondence in both modern contexts (e.g. email, instant messaging) and historical contexts (e.g. letters, dispatches). Topics might include: self- and other- reference in writing of (and about) immigrants/emigrants, e.g. reference in relation to stance, positioning, indexicality ego documents dialect the recovery and preservation of linguistic heritage immigrant monolingualism and bilingualism, and/or ideological/evaluative comments relating to them multilingualism and letters language policies, in either historical or modern contexts language contact, e.g. practices and hierarchies in transnational language histories enregisterment (conceptual) spoken and written discourse in immigrant/emigrant correspondence immediacy and distance in the language of immigrant/emigrant correspondence oral history of emigrant experiences orthography and spelling syntax gender, e.g. women’s voices in transit age, e.g. children’s voices in transit, or discourse about childhood/children emotions in immigrant/emigrant correspondence humour about/satire of the culture the emigres join assimilation anxiety Lead Speaker: Carolina Amador Moreno, ‘A transhistorical approach to ego documents – a perspective from Irish English’. Length: 45 minutes with space for comments and questions. This talk will discuss the value of ego-documents in historical sociolinguistics, engaging with issues related also to (historical) pragmatics, (historical) discourse analysis, oral history, etc. The focus will be on private correspondence, using the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) to illustrate some of the research activity that has been conducted using this corpus since it was devised in 2008. By turning to CORIECOR, we will take a closer look at how Irish English was recorded through letter writing. CORIECOR contains a large body of personal letters mainly to and from Irish emigrants, sent for the most part between Ireland and the United States, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, from approximately 1750 to 1940. The talk will offer some reflections on how diachronic corpora can help us identify patterns of consistency across time, as well as trends in usage, and instances of slower types of linguistic change across language varieties. Some of the examples that will be discussed will allow us to see how certain linguistic choices made in the letters show indexicality. We will also reflect more broadly on how the oral history of emigrant experiences is expressed in the context of written communication in present times, bringing in the transhistorical angle that allows us to measure modern migration experiences across time. The talk will close with some reflections on the recovery and preservation of linguistic heritage; questions related to the use of modern technologies will serve as an invitation to discuss differences between traditional and digital archiving. CIG site: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/community-interest-groups/digital-corre…

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INLG 2026 Accepted papers & call for participation
by Emiel van Miltenburg 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

Dear Corpora List members, We have just published the list of accepted papers<https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/accepted-papers.html> for the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2026). Invited speakers<https://2026.inlgmeeting.org/keynotes.html> are: * Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), * Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen), * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS, UCLouvain), and * Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere) Registration is open now. The Early registration rates apply only for those who register before the 15th of September. See the website for more details: https://2026.inlgmeeting.org Best wishes, Emiel van Miltenburg Tilburg University Department of Communication and Cognition (DCC) Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) Work schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. www.emielvanmiltenburg.nl | Github: https://github.com/evanmiltenburg

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Three PhD/PostDoc positions at the German Research Centre for AI (DFKI) Saarbrücken/Darmstadt
by Simon Ostermann 01 Sep '26

01 Sep '26

The MLT group (Dr. Marius Mosbach, Dr. Simon Ostermann) together with the NMM (Prof. Verena Wolf, Dr. Kevin Baum) and SAINT groups (Prof. Kristian Kersting, Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf) at DFKI Saarbrücken and Darmstadt is recruiting across three complementary research areas: ### 1. PhD Researcher: Mechanistic Interpretability for Safe Agentic AI (SAgA project) Develop fine-grained steering methods to control language model behavior without retraining. We're looking for someone to advance post-hoc controllability through circuit analysis and sparse feature steering. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/researcher-phd-student-m-w-d-x-mechanistic-… ### 2. PostDoc: Multilingual Mechanistic Interpretability (planned SLIMS Project, DFKI-Inria collaboration) First systematic study of reasoning circuits in compact multilingual models. Investigate circuit transfer across scales and many languages using the full mechanistic toolkit. Work directly with the ALMAnaCH team at Inria Paris (Prof. Benoit Sagot, Dr. Djamé Seddah) with planned bilateral research visits and joint workshops. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/senior-researcher-postdoc-m-w-d-x-multiling… ### 3. PostDoc: AI Safety, Ethics, and Agentic Systems (SAgA project) Develop safe autonomous agents with explicit, inspectable normative constraints. We're seeking candidates with mechanistic interpretability expertise curious about safety, or safety/ethics backgrounds open to steering-based intervention methods. Work across multiple DFKI research groups (NMM, SAINT, MLT) with tailored supervision. https://jobs.dfki.de/en/vacancy/senior-researcher-postdoc-m-w-d-x-ai-safety… ### General Information These positions are part of two larger research initiatives at DFKI and beyond: one planned project focused on understanding and leveraging circuit structure for multilingual models (SLIMS), the other on building safe agentic AI through structurally preserved normative reasoning (SAgA). We work on explainable and efficient language processing with a strong focus on rigorous methodology, active publication, and open critical discussion of ideas. We're committed to creating a positive, respectful, supportive working atmosphere where you have space to develop your own scientific identity. SLIMS and SAgA will collaborate in an integrated interdisciplinary team. The positions will work closely together, with mechanistic findings feeding into safety architectures and safety requirements driving interpretability research, creating a coherent research ecosystem where circuit analysis, multilingual NLP, formal ethics, and agentic systems reinforce each other. The PhD and first postdoc position are supervised by Dr. Simon Ostermann within the Multilinguality and Language Technology (MLT) group directed by Dr. Marius Mosbach, with support from the DFKI labs SAINT (Prof. Kristian Kersting, Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf) and NMM (Prof. Verena Wolf, Dr. Kevin Baum). For the second postdoc position on AI safety and agentic systems, we offer flexible supervision across three research groups: the Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling (NMM) group under Prof. Verena Wolf, the Foundations of Systems AI (SAINT) group under Prof. Kristian Kersting, and the MLT group. Candidates prioritizing mechanistic interpretability work primarily with Dr. Simon Ostermann; those emphasizing formal ethics and normative reasoning anchor with Dr. Kevin Baum; and those focusing on agentic system design and task discovery collaborate with Dr. Dominik Hintersdorf. This ensures your mentorship directly supports your research trajectory while you contribute across interpretability, formal ethics, and safe agentic systems. ### Our Labs We are committed to rigorous, methodologically grounded research with an active publication culture. We believe in the open, critical discussion of ideas and we value solid methodology as the foundation for real progress. We've built a lab culture that combines intellectual rigor with genuine support for the people who work here, and we invest in creating the space for you to develop your own scientific identity, while having lots of fun! If you're interested in mechanistic interpretability, multilingual NLP, or safe AI systems (or the convergences between them), we'd like to hear from you. Applications are open until Sep 15.

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