ICMI 2026 CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS & EXHIBITS
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5-9 October 2026, Napoli - Italy
https://icmi.acm.org/2026/
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We invite submissions for Demonstrations and Exhibits at the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026), taking place October 5-9, 2026, in Napoli, Italy. This track is your chance to showcase cutting-edge multimodal systems, interactive technologies, and innovative applications—from early-stage prototypes to mature products.
Important Dates
* Submission deadline: June 21, 2026
* Notification: July 15, 2026
* Final papers (demos): August 2, 2026
Submission guidelines: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/guidelines/
You can submit two types of contributions:
* Demonstrations: 2-3 page paper (published in ACM proceedings) + video
* Exhibits: Short proposal (no proceedings paper) + video
All submissions require a video (<=200MB) to illustrate your system.
Accepted presenters will be provided with:
* Demo table & poster board
* Power access
* Shared wireless internet
At least one author must register and attend the conference.
Contacts:
Micol Spitale & Josh Andres
icmi2026-demo-exhibits-chairs(a)acm.org
11th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2026)
LxGr2026 will be held online on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 July 2026.
Programme, abstracts, and registration (free): https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr
Registration closes in two weeks (30 June).
Invited Speakers
Stefan Th. Gries<https://www.stgries.info/> (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Martin Hilpert<http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert> (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Serge Sharoff<https://ssharoff.github.io/> (University of Leeds, UK)
If you have problems registering, or have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>.
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Apologies for cross-posting. The Call for Papers below is provided in
German, as it concerns a conference event dedicated to methods and
resources for research on the German language. Please feel free to
forward it to interested colleagues.
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Methodenmesse auf der IDS-Jahrestagung 2027: "Sprache und Literatur"
Die 63. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in
Mannheim steht unter dem Motto "Sprache und Literatur" und zielt darauf
ab, Phänomene literarischer Sprache aus der Perspektive linguistischer
Fragestellungen und Methoden zu beleuchten. Wir rufen zur Einreichung
von Beiträgen für die Methodenmesse auf, die am Mittwoch, 10. März 2027,
im Rahmen der Tagung stattfindet.
Der Fokus der Methodenmesse ist praxisnah und liegt auf Ressourcen,
Methoden und Werkzeugen, die idealerweise anhand kurzer
Anwendungsstudien demonstriert werden. Die Vorstellung von spezifischen
Studien ist ebenfalls möglich, wobei transparente Methodik,
Dokumentation und möglichst reproduzierbare Forschungsprozesse im
Vordergrund stehen sollten. Wir begrüßen insbesondere Beiträge, die sich
mit der deutschen Sprache beschäftigen bzw. auf das Deutsche anwendbare
Methoden oder Tools vorstellen.
Geplante Themenbereiche sind:
• Korpora oder andere Ressourcen für die empirische Arbeit mit
literarischen Texten
• Tools, Strategien und Workflows für die empirische Untersuchung
literarischer Texte mit Bezug auf deren sprachliche Struktur, hierbei
auch besonders:
o Untersuchungen und kritische Reflexion zum Einsatz von KI-Methoden
o Untersuchungen zu multimodalen und neuartigen Literaturformen (z.B.
Songs, Graphic Novels, Social-Media-Formate, interaktive Formate,
KI-generierte Literatur)
• Didaktisch-methodische Konzepte für die Verknüpfung von Sprach- und
Literaturwissenschaft in Lehre und Unterricht
Weitere Themenbereiche können berücksichtigt werden, sofern der Bezug
zum Tagungsthema in der Einreichung klar herausgearbeitet ist.
Die Beiträge werden in Form eines Posters und ggf. einer
Softwaredemonstration präsentiert. Auf der Tagung wird jeder Beitrag in
einem einminütigen Schlaglicht dem Publikum vorgestellt. Anschließend
gibt es die Gelegenheit, die Inhalte im Rahmen einer ca.
eineinhalbstündigen Poster-Session zu demonstrieren und Fragen zu
beantworten. Ausgearbeitete Beiträge sollen im Anschluss an die Tagung
bei IDSopen ( https://idsopen.de ) digital nach dem Open-Access-Prinzip
publiziert werden.
Wenn Sie einen Beitrag zur Methodenmesse beisteuern möchten, bitten wir
um ein nicht anonymisiertes Abstract auf Deutsch (ca. 500 Wörter exkl.
Literaturangaben; in einem editierbaren Format) bis zum 15.09.2026 an
folgende Adresse:
methodenmesse2027(a)ids-mannheim.de
Über die Annahme der Beiträge wird bis zum 15.11.2026 entschieden.
Konferenz-Webseite:
https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/tagungen/jahrestagung-2…
Organisationsteam: Annelen Brunner, Katharina Gloning, Peter Meyer,
Roman Schneider
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Prof. Dr. Roman Schneider
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, R5 6-13, 68161 Mannheim
Tel: +49 621-1581-217
http://www.ids-mannheim.de/gra/personal/schneider.html
*** Last Call for Workshop Papers ***
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
VARIABILITY is a new conference that has been formed by the merger of three prominent
conferences focussing on software and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC
(the International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions,
ranked as a top conference), VaMoS (the International Working Conference on Variability
Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful editions), and ICSR (the
International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22 successful editions).
This is the last call for papers for the two workshops to be collocated with VARIABILITY
2026. VARIABILITY workshop papers will be published in a volume of the conference
proceedings published by Springer in LNCS.
Tenth International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR
2026)
https://modevar.github.io/
Feature models were invented in 1990 and have been recognized as one of the main
contributions to the Software Product Line community. Although several attempts have
been made to establish and study a sort of standard variability modeling language (e.g., OVM, CVL, TVL, .) there is still no consensus on a simple feature modeling language.
There can be many motivations to have one but among others, there is one that is very
important: information sharing among researchers, tools, or developers. Following the
spirit of the previous MODEVAR workshops, this meeting plans to be a full-day, interactive
event where all participants shall share knowledge about how to build up a simple feature
model language that the community can agree on.
First International Workshop on Generative AI and Variability (GAIV 2026)
https://sites.google.com/view/gaiv-2026
The Workshop on Generative AI and Variability (GAIV 2026) invites high-quality
contributions from researchers and practitioners in software engineering, artificial
intelligence, and related disciplines, focusing on the intersection of generative AI (GenAI)
and variability-intensive systems. As configurable systems and GenAI technologies rapidly
evolve, their interaction raises new opportunities and challenges: GenAI can automate
variability engineering tasks, while variability introduces complexity in AI pipelines,
prompts, and generated artifacts. GAIV provides a dedicated forum to explore this
emerging research space and foster collaboration between the variability and AI-in-SE
communities.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop Papers Submission: 30 June 2026
• Workshop Papers Notification: 15 July, 2026
• Camera-Ready Version Submission: 31 July, 2026
• Author Registration: 31 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
The 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2026), will take place at the University of Trento, Italy, on September 25–26, 2026. ICNLSP 2026 will be a hybrid conference.
We invite authors to submit their work on topics relevant to ICNLSP 2026 and contribute to advancing research in the field.
We welcome contributions on both the theoretical foundations and applied aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Speech Processing.
IMPORTANT DATES
New submission deadline: June 22, 2026 11:59 PMNotification of acceptance: July 25, 2026.
Camera-ready paper due: August 6, 2026.
Conference dates: September 25-26, 2026.
All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
TOPICS of INTEREST
We invite contributions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Generative AI
- Large language models (LLMs)
- Cognition and NLP
- Machine translation
- Text categorization
- Summarization
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Computational social web
- Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora
- NLP tools for software requirements and engineering
- Text annotation tools
- Knowledge fundamentals and knowledge management systems
- Information extraction
- Data mining and information retrieval
- Lexical semantics and knowledge representation
- Visualization for nlp
- Knowledge graphs.
Speech Processing
- Signal processing and acoustic modeling
- Speech recognition (architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.)
- Speech analysis
- Paralinguistics in speech and language (perception of paralinguistic phenomena, speaker states and traits analysis, etc.)
- Spoken dialogue systems and conversational analysis
- Speech translation
- Speech synthesis
- Speaker verification and identification
- Language identification
- Speech coding, enhancement, and intelligibility
- Speech perception and production
- Brain studies on speech
- Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
- Speech and hearing disorders
- Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language
- Speech technology for disordered speech and hearing
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology.
For more information, please, check the conference website: https://www.icnlsp.org/2026welcome/
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KAIROS Phase 1 Evaluation Source Data, Annotation, and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T07>
Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 - Spanish & Portuguese<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S07>
LORELEI Multiway Translated Text<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T06>
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New publications:
KAIROS Phase 1 Evaluation Source Data, Annotation, and Assessment<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T07> was developed by LDC and contains the English and Spanish source data (text, video, images), manual annotations, reference knowledge graphs, the system output assessed during the evaluation, and human assessment results from the Phase 1 evaluation of the DARPA KAIROS Program. The Phase 1 evaluation focused on the improvised explosive bombing scenario with nine complex events and two surprise complex events in the mass shooting scenario.
Source data for each complex event consisted of 10-15 documents that included multimodal English and Spanish event-relevant and off-topic distractor documents. Manual annotation and assessment of event-relevant documents for 10 complex events are included in this release. Scenario-relevant events and relations were labeled for each document to develop a structured representation of temporally-ordered events, relations, and arguments that expressed the scenario-relevant events in each complex event. A reference knowledge graph (Graph G) was developed for each event; systems were expected to match the Graph G with a given schema library. Assessment data includes human assessment judgments and the system output that was manually assessed for the end-to-end evaluation task.
The DARPA KAIROS (Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas) program aimed to build technology capable of understanding and reasoning about complex real-world events in order to provide actionable insights to end users. KAIROS systems utilized formal event representations in the form of schema libraries that specified the steps, preconditions, and constraints for an open set of complex events; schemas were then used in combination with event extraction to characterize and make predictions about real-world events in a large multilingual, multimedia corpus.
2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2014 - Spanish & Portuguese<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026S07> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 123 hours of Spanish and Portuguese telephone speech. The data was collected to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification; portions of these recordings were used in the NIST 2015 and 2017 language recognition evaluations<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mltg/language-recognition>. The collection focused on language pair discrimination for 20 languages/dialects, some of which could be considered mutually intelligible or closely related.
This corpus contains 569 recordings covering Brazilian Portuguese, Caribbean Spanish, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 8 minutes, to each acquaintance. Human auditors labeled the calls for language, quality, callee gender, dialect type, and noise.
2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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LORELEI Multiway Translated Text<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T06> consists of a fixed set of English texts (around 100,000 words) translated into 24 languages. It was developed by LDC for the DARPA LORELEI Program; the translations were included in the LORELEI representative language packs created by LDC in 2016-2019.
The common word set was composed of English news documents (50%), LORELEI-domain English news documents (25%), and a phrasebook and elicitation corpus (25%). The phrasebook contained everyday colloquial phrases. The elicitation corpus was designed to represent linguistic structures. Texts were translated by a combination of professional translators and crowd-sourced translators.
The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations like natural disasters or disease outbreaks. Linguistic resources for LORELEI include Representative Language Packs and Incident Language Packs for over two dozen low resource languages, comprising data, annotations, basic natural language processing tools, lexicons, and grammatical resources. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage, while incident languages were selected to evaluate system performance on a language whose identity was disclosed at the start of the evaluation.
2026 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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[CFP] Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems — Springer Nature / AI and Ethics Submission Deadline: September 7, 2026
We invite submissions to the topical collection "Participatory AI: Co-Designing Sociotechnical Systems", published in the Springer Nature journal AI and Ethics.
Submission deadline: September 7, 2026
Journal CFP: https://link.springer.com/collections/fehgbcihbb
This collection explores how participatory approaches can address risks and limitations of AI-powered technologies by engaging diverse stakeholders in the design process. Drawing on the sociotechnical tradition, it brings together work at the intersection of sociotechnical studies and participatory design, investigating how AI and digital systems can be co-designed to reflect shared values, accountability, and agency.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Methods, frameworks, and design solutions for participatory AI (co)design
- Experiments, simulations, prototypes, or case studies of co-design in AI development
- Strategies for balancing individual and collective needs in AI design
- Critical reflections on challenges and limitations of participatory approaches
- Analyses of power dynamics and ethical considerations in participatory AI
- Experiences and lessons learned from co-design and stakeholder engagement
- Assessing AI impacts through participatory and stakeholder engagement approaches
We welcome technical and non-technical submissions with theoretical, methodological, or experimental contributions. Interdisciplinary work is explicitly encouraged. Submitted manuscripts must contain at least 80% original content.
This collection is connected to the workshop "Mind the AI GAP: Co-designing sociotechnical systems" (HHAI 2025: https://aigap2025.isti.cnr.it/), but is open to all contributions aligned with the scope.
Guest Editors:
Costanza Alfieri, University of L'Aquila
Marta Marchiori Manerba, University of Turin
Rui Prada, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the* Second Workshop on Replication in
the Language Science (WoReLa 2
<https://sites.google.com/view/worela2/home>)* will take place in
*Cologne, Germany *on*8–9 July 2027* with a fantastic line-up of keynote
speakers and an exciting pre-conference reproduction hackathon (more on
that soon!).
The call for abstracts
<https://sites.google.com/view/worela2/call-for-abstracts> is open and
the deadline is *15 August 2026*. We welcome submissions reporting on
the outcomes of replications in all subdisciplines of linguistics using
any (set of) method(s), but also reproductions, multiverse analyses, and
meta-scientific contributions on the state of replicability and the
adoption of open science practices in the language sciences, as well as
demonstrations of concrete tools, teaching materials, software, and
workflows that can help linguists do better research and build more
cumulative knowledge.
WoReLa 1 <https://sites.google.com/view/worela1/home> in Frankfurt last
year was a wonderful meeting of like-minded people with positive ideas
for change and we hope that you will want to join us for this exciting
second edition in Cologne! We would also be very grateful if you could
circulate this call among any interested friends, colleagues, and students.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Elen, on behalf of the entire organising committee
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*Dr. Elen Le Foll*
/Senior Researcher and Lecturer (Akademische Rätin)/
Department of Romance Studies
<https://romanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • Data Center for the
Humanities <https://dch.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/> • University of Cologne
<https://portal.uni-koeln.de/en/uoc-home>
Applied Linguistics • Corpus Linguistics • Language Teaching & Learning
ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-8010> • HAL Science
<https://cv.hal.science/elenlefoll>
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear colleagues!
We are very happy to announce the forthcoming special issue on ethics in
natural language processing and computational linguistics in the journal
Computational Linguistics
([https://direct.mit.edu/coli](https://direct.mit.edu/coli)).
Language processing technologies from Siri to Google Translate and
ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in our societies. Consequently, there has
been a decade of attention to algorithmically mediated harms, including
harms arising from social biases and discriminatory technologies. In
this special issue, we broadly invite contributions that reflect on the
ethics of language technologies. We invite **theoretical** and technical
submissions around - but not limited to:
* Reflection on bias and fairness research and its outcomes;
* Interdisciplinary perspectives on bias, fairness, and
algorithmically mediated harms;
* Critiques of existing approaches;
* Development of new theories for bias, fairness, and algorithmically
mediated harms;
* Analyses of power relationships (including conflicts of interests)
and their impacts;
* Multilingual considerations;
* Decolonisation in relation to bias and fairness;
* Reflections on ongoing debates on bias, fairness, and ethics;
* Language technologies in context (e.g., in political/social/cultural
tensions);
* Slow science and its relationship to bias and fairness;
* Luddite and decomputing perspectives on language technologies, bias,
and fairness;
* Environmental impacts of language technologies
* The impacts and social considerations of data labour;
* Social and societal harms of language technologies; and
* External perspectives on language technologies.
We particularly encourage **inter-, cross- and transdisciplinary**
submissions which center questions around the fairness, bias, justice,
and ethics of natural language processing technologies and computational
linguistics.
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[](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#important-dates-and-information
"important-dates-and-information")Important dates and information
*Submission deadline*: 27 November, 2026
*Notification*: February, 2027
*Publication (Expected)*: October, 2027
Submission site:
[https://submissions.cljournal.org/index.php/cljournal/submission](https://s…
### [](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#guest-editors
"guest-editors")Guest Editors
* Karën Fort, Université de Lorraine / LORIA, France
* Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany
* Zeerak Talat, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
If you have any questions feel free to reach out to us
[cl\_si\_ethics@inria.fr](mailto:cl_si_ethics@inria.fr)
### [](https://notes.inria.fr/2HKIxrP4TD-yH3GDvkwWkw#about-the-journal
"about-the-journal")About the journal
Computational Linguistics is the longest-running publication devoted
exclusively to the computational and mathematical properties of language
and the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. This
highly regarded quarterly offers university and industry linguists,
computational linguists, artificial intelligence and machine learning
investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and
philosophers the latest information about the computational aspects of
all the facets of research on language.
Computational Linguistics is a diamond open access journal, which means
that "there is **no fee to publish and the content is open to anyone to
read**. All of these titles employ a Creative Commons license for
individual articles."
([https://direct.mit.edu/journals/pages/open-access](https://direct.mit.edu/j…)
MIAI–PRAIRIE Online Seminar on LLMs and the Study of Language, Mind, and Society
Our next speaker will be Adele Goldberg, from Princeton, for a talk on ''Compositionality, creativity in natural language and LLMs’’, on Monday 15 June, 5pm (French time),
Online, free access, with no registration
Organized by Caroline Rossi (Université Grenoble Alpes / MIAI) and Thierry Poibeau (ENS–PSL / PRAIRIE–PSAI).
Next year’s speakers will include Eloïse Boisseau (AMU, Marseille), and Dallas Card (U. Michigan), among others.
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*** Compositionality, creativity in natural language and LLMs ***
Monday 15 June, 5pm (French time), online (free access, no registration)
Connexion link: https://webinaire.numerique.gouv.fr/meeting/signin/invite/78275/creator/433…
Adele Goldberg, Princeton
Abstract:
Today’s LLMs interpret and produce familiar and novel language without abstract symbolic rules. An appreciation of the complexity of natural languages indicates this is more a feature than a bug. New evidence demonstrates that LLMs are also at least as creative as the typical person. Parallels between LLMs and human language highlight the statistical and functional aspects of both systems. For cognitive scientists, LLMs promise of a deeper understanding of compositionality and creativity.
Bio:
Adele Goldberg is the M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her research explores the formal, semantic, social, statistical, and memory-based factors that shape how languages are learned, represented, and used. She is fascinated by what makes human language both creative and constrained, across adults and children, first and second language learners, and neurotypical and atypical populations. Her current work touches on word meaning, language change, island constraints, metaphor and emotion, good-enough language production, and the forms and functions of grammatical constructions. She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Cognitive Science Society, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.