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CFP DepLing 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29, deadline April 15
by Sylvain Kahane 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

DepLing 2025, Ljubljana, August 26-29 deadline April 15 We are pleased to announce the 8th International Workshop on Dependency Grammar (DepLing 2025) , which will bring together researchers interested in dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has become the central event for people discussing the linguistic significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools. The workshop is part of SyntaxFest 2025 and will be hosted by University of Ljubljana in Slovenia on August 26-29, 2025. Link to DepLing 2025: https://depling.org/depling2025/ Link to SyntaxFest 2025: https://syntaxfest.github.io/ ----------------------------- SELECTED TOPICS OF INTEREST ----------------------------- Topics include but are not limited to: The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics; a.o.: The use of syntactic trees to model syntactic relations; The use of semantic, valency-based or predicate-argument graph structures; The use of dependency-like structures to model semantic and pragmatic phenomena related to information structure; The use of dependency-like structures beyond the sentence (e.g., to model discourse phenomena); The elaboration of formal lexicons for dependency-based syntax and semantics, including descriptions of collocations and paradigmatic relations; The use of dependency in the field of linguistic universals, and typology. Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar; a.o.: The definition of the very notion of dependency; The development and the use of dependency-based diagrams; Dependency grammar and its relation to other formalisms; The use of dependency-like concepts in the history of grammar and linguistics. The use of the dependency structures in corpus linguistics; a.o.: Corpus annotation and development of dependency-based treebanks and other linguistic resources of written and spoken texts; Recent advances in dependency-based parsing, and text generation; Cross-lingual dependency parser evaluation, with particular emphasis on intrinsic evaluation metrics. The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of science, such as, e.g., the psycholinguistic relevance of dependency grammar. ----------------------------- INVITED SPEAKER ----------------------------- Daniel Zeman, Inst. of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2025 * Camera-ready papers: 16 June 2025 * Early bird registration: June 2025 * Conference dates: 26 to 29 August 2025 ----------------------------- DepLing 2025 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- * Sylvain Kahane, Paris Nanterre University * Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Prague

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QUECHUA to SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION at ACL 2025
by John Ortega 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success of previous workshops like LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and IWSLT, we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations another year. We ask that you kindly participate in the 2025 edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at ACL 2025. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025/low-resource Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025 HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly, please email the organizers below for more details. IMPORTANT DATES Apr 21, 2025 System description paper submission deadline May 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance June 1, 2025 Camera ready deadline July 31-Aug 1, 2025 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) wc4(a)andrew.cmu.edu Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) rodolfojoel.zevallos(a)upf.edu

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QUECHUA to SPANISH SPEECH TRANSLATION at ACL 2025
by John Ortega 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success of previous workshops like LoResMT, AmericasNLP, and IWSLT, we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations another year. We ask that you kindly participate in the 2025 edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at ACL 2025. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS - Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2025/low-resource - Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign - IWSLT conference webpage: <https://iwslt.org/2023/>https://iwslt.org/2025 HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2025_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub or emailed directly, please email the organizers below for more details. IMPORTANT DATES - Apr 21, 2025 System description paper submission deadline - May 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance - June 1, 2025 Camera ready deadline - July 31-Aug 1, 2025 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) j.ortega(a)northeastern.edu William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) wc4(a)andrew.cmu.edu Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) rodolfojoel.zevallos(a)upf.edu

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1st Call for Papers: Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025) Call for Papers Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop Overview Constructionist approaches to language posit that all linguistic knowledge needed for language comprehension and production can be captured as a network of form-meaning mappings, called constructions. Construction Grammars (CxGs) do not distinguish between words and grammar rules, but allow for mappings between forms and meanings of arbitrary complexity and degree of abstraction. CxGs are thereby able to uniformly capture the compositional and non-compositional aspects of language use, making the theory particularly attractive to researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). CxG theories, for example, can serve as a valuable ‘lens’ to assess and investigate the abilities of today’s large language models, which lack explicit, theoretically grounded linguistic insights. At the same time, techniques from the field of NLP are often employed for the further development and scaling of CxG theories and applications. This workshop aims to bring together researchers across theory and practice from the two complementary perspectives of Construction Grammar and NLP to explore how CxG approaches can both inform and benefit from NLP methods, with an emphasis on LLMs. Therefore, we invite original research papers from a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to: Contributions to Construction Grammar theory Construction Grammar Formalisms Computational Construction Grammar Implementations Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Opinion pieces on the interplay between Construction Grammar and NLP Constructions and Language Models (Mechanistic interpretability, probing (e.g., BERTology), and evaluation of LLMs) Resources: Constructicons and corpora annotated for Construction Grammar Construction Grammar learning and adaptation Applications at the intersection of Construction Grammar and NLP Invited Speakers Adele Goldberg, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University Thomas Hoffmann, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Laura Michaelis, Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder Venue The 2nd CxGs+NLP workshop will be co-located with the 16th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS), organized by the Heinrich Heine University (HHU) in Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop will be held on 24 September 2025. We are expecting the workshop to be in-person only, but are awaiting details on the possibility of a hybrid presentation option. Important Dates Jun 06: submission deadline Aug 01: notification of acceptance, registration opens Aug 22: camera-ready papers due Sep 22-23: IWCS main conference Sep 24: workshop Submission information Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages. Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages. Acknowledgments, references, a limitations section (optional), an ethics statement (optional), and a technical appendix (optional, not subject to reviewing) do not count towards the page limit. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version and will be published in the conference proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival publications will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only. CxGs+NLP 2 papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by IWCS 2021 (borrowed from ACL 2021). Please use these specific style-files or the Overleaf template. Style files: https://iwcs2021.github.io/download/iwcs2021-templates.zip Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed… Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting and let us know if the work is accepted for publication elsewhere. Submission site TBA. Instructions for Double-Blind Review As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Workshop Chairs Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab) Harish Tayyar Madabushi (The University of Bath) Workshop Organizing Committee Melissa Torgbi (The University of Bath) Leonie Weissweiler (University of Texas at Austin) Austin Blodgett (U.S. Army Research Lab) Katrien Beuls (University of Namur,Belgium) Paul Van Eecke (Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Belgium) Contact: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop

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March 2025 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S02> The Xi'an Multi-Language Learner Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T03> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025S02> was developed by LDC and NIST. It contains the evaluation test set for the 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE), approximately 867 hours of conversational telephone speech (CTS) and broadcast narrowband speech (BNBS) collected by LDC in 20 languages over 6 clusters of related languages: Arabic (Egyptian, Iraqi, Levantine, Maghrebi, Modern Standard Arabic); Spanish (Caribbean, European, Latin American, Brazilian Portuguese); English (British, Indian, General American English); Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Min Nan, Wu); Slavic (Polish, Russian); and French (West African, Haitian Creole). The CTS data includes calls between individuals in the same social networks lasting 8-15 minutes and telephone speech from the IARPA Babel series collected in 2012-2013 from speakers using a range of phone types in diverse settings with varying noise conditions. The BNBS data was collected by LDC from streaming and satellite radio programming, focusing on programs that included narrowband speech (e.g., call-ins to a talk show). The goal of NIST's LRE evaluations is to establish the baseline of current performance capability for CTS language recognition and to lay the groundwork for further research efforts. LRE15 expanded the range of test segment durations and added a test condition that allowed systems to make use of unrestricted training data when developing models 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * The Xi'an Multi-Language Learner Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2025T03> was developed by Xi'an International Studies University (XISU)<https://en.xisu.edu.cn/> and is comprised of 526 argumentative essays in 15 languages by Chinese L1 university students studying second languages, along with student metadata and writing prompts. It was developed to support second language learner research and to provide a database for cross-linguistic comparison of second languages. Data was collected in 2023 and 2024 from students at XISU and Yunnan Minzu University (YMU) who were linguistic majors or studying one of the foreign languages available at XISU and YMU. Off-topic essays and incomplete texts were excluded. 2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Job: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Natural Language Processing, TU Wien, Austria
by Allan Hanbury 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

We’re Hiring! Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Natural Language Processing TU Wien Informatics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing. This position is affiliated with both the Data Science Research Unit and the Complexity Science Hub. Application deadline: May 22, 2025 Location: TU Wien, Vienna, Austria Start date: January 2026 Join us in shaping the future of NLP in a vibrant research community! Find out more: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2859 Apply now: https://jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/248962 More information: TU Wien Informatics: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/ TU Wien Data Science: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/orgs/e194-04 Complexity Science Hub: https://csh.ac.at/ -- Allan Hanbury Professor of Data Intelligence Head of the Data Science Research Unit, Institute of Information Systems Engineering Faculty Representative for Financial Affairs and Internationalization, Faculty of Informatics TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) Favoritenstrasse 9-11/194-04 1040 Vienna, Austria +43 1 58801 188310

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Faculty Positions in Computer Science and Data & AI at DCC and IDIA, FCFM - University of Chile
by Felipe Bravo 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

🚀 *Join Us in Advancing AI & Data Science at the University of Chile!* 🌎💡 The *Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM)* at the *University of Chile* is seeking two outstanding academics to join the *Department of Computer Science (DCC)* and the *Institute for Data and Artificial Intelligence (IDIA)*! If you are passionate about *cutting-edge research* in *AI, data science, and computer science*, this is your chance to work in one of Latin America's leading research hubs. 🌍✨ 📌 *Key Highlights:* 🔹 *Two full-time faculty positions* (Assistant Professor level) 🔹 Focus on *AI, data science, and interdisciplinary research* 🔹 Engage in *teaching, research, and industry collaboration* 🔹 Competitive salary with opportunities for additional funding 🔹 Join a vibrant AI & data science ecosystem with leading research centers 🎯 *We are looking for experts in:* ✅ Data Engineering & Data Mining ✅ Machine Learning & Deep Learning ✅ Natural Language Processing & Multimodal Data ✅ Autonomous Agents & AI-Driven Software Engineering ✅ Responsible AI & Ethics in AI 📅 *Application Deadline: June 7, 2025* 📍 *Location: Santiago, Chile* 🇨🇱 🔗 *Apply now:* http://www.uchile.cl/concursoAcademico/ 🔍 *More details:* https://comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/966-faculty-positions-in-computer… 🏛 *Learn more about us:* 🔹 *IDIA:* idia.uchile.cl 🔹 *DCC:* dcc.uchile.cl 🔹 *FCFM:* ingenieria.uchile.cl

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2nd CFP: The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Second Call for Papers: *The 20th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2025)* *Location*: Vienna, Austria and online (co-located with ACL 2025) *Date*: Thursday, July 31 and Friday, August 1, 2025 *Website*: https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025 <https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025> *Submission Deadline*: Thursday, April 17, 2025, 11:59pm UTC-12 *Submission Link*: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) (https://sig-edu.org) in 2017, which currently has over 400 members. The 20th BEA workshop will be the first edition of BEA as *a 2-day workshop*, and it will feature a keynote by *Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly)*, oral presentation sessions and large poster sessions to facilitate the presentation of a wide array of original research. This year, the workshop is also hosting *a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors*, and *a half-day tutorial on LLMs for Education: Understanding the Needs of Stakeholders, Current Capabilities and the Path Forward *(more details on both to follow). We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will accept submissions of both full papers and short papers, eligible for either oral or poster presentation at https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/. We solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of generative AI in education and its impact; - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly), and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE ( https://alliancelss.com) societies. SHARED TASK The workshop will also host a shared task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors. See more details here: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2025 IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission deadline: *Thursday, April 17, 2025* - Notification of acceptance: *Thursday, May 22, 2025* - Camera-ready papers due: *Monday, June 9, 2025* - Workshop: *Thursday, July 31, and Friday, August 1, 2025* SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: https://softconf.com/acl2025/bea2025/ DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy. Specifically, papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar, MBZUAI - Andrea Horbach, Hildesheim University - Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Ruhr University Bochum - Marie Bexte, FernUniversität in Hagen - Anaïs Tack, KU Leuven, imec - Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners - Bashar Alhafni, New York University (NYU) \& CAMeL Lab in NYUAD - Zheng Yuan, King’s College London - Jill Burstein, Duolingo Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE https://sig-edu.org/bea/2025#program-committee

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Comparing AI / LLMs and corpora
by Mark Davies 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

Those who are interested in how well the predictions of AI / LLMs compare to actual corpus data may be interested in: *https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/ <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/>* The data includes seven in-depth comparisons of LLMs and corpora (about 90 pages of discussion and examples) for the following topics: *word frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/words.pdf>, phrase frequency <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/phrases.pdf>, collocates <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/collocates.pdf>, comparing words <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/compare-words.pdf>* (via collocates), *genre-based variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/genres.pdf>, historical variation <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/historical.pdf>*, and *dialectal variation* <https://www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/dialects.pdf>. Best, Mark Davies <https://www.mark-davies.org/> English-Corpora.org

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CIRCE Online Seminar 31/03/2025 - Prof. Rob Drummond "Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language"
by Claudia Soria 17 Mar '25

17 Mar '25

*🎓 *We are happy to announce the next webinar in the CIRCE online seminar series, organized by the CIRCE <https://www.circe-project.eu/> project in collaboration with DFCLAM University of Siena <https://www.dfclam.unisi.it/it>, H2IOSC <https://www.h2iosc.cnr.it/> project and CNR-ILC. *Speaker*: _Rob Drummond_ (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) *Title*: Ten things everybody should know about (spoken) language *Date*: Monday, March 31, 2025 - 16:30 CET *Venue*: Online Attendees: Secondary school teachers, researchers, language instructors *Summary*: I spend a lot of my time trying to persuade people to have a more accepting attitude towards language variation and language change. In fact, we should be doing a lot more than accepting it – we should be enjoying it and celebrating the fact that we all use language in different ways. We should take time to appreciate the fundamental connection between the way we speak, and who we are. In this talk, I will present my top ten reflections and insights that aim to improve everyone’s relationship with their own, and other people’s, use of English. *Bio*: Rob Drummond is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he researches, teaches and writes about the relationship between spoken language and identity. He recently led the community-focused Manchester Voices project, exploring the accents, dialects and identities of people in Greater Manchester, and he co-leads The Accentism Project, which strives to challenge and raise awareness of language-based prejudice. Rob does a lot of public-facing academic work and is the author of You’re All Talk: Why we are what we speak (Scribe Publications, 2023), a book for a general audience that sheds light on the fascinating relationship between ourselves and our language. Upcoming webinars: - Alice Henderson, /Learning to listen: Coping with spoken variation in the workplace/ (Monday, April 28, 2025) - Ana Tankosic, /Intersectionality in translingual spaces: Migrant experiences from ‘down-under’/ (Monday, May 12, 2025) - Giuliana Regnoli, /Unveiling linguistic bias: Approaches to accent perception and discrimination/ (Monday, May 26, 2025) The seminar is free of charge, but participants must register. To access this and next events, you should create an account on theH2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/registration>. Once logged in with your credentials, choose the course “Language and Accent Discrimination - Online Seminar Series” and activate it with the code PbK837GtE. Make sure to have the Teams platform installed. The registrations of the previous CIRCE Seminars are also available on the H2IOSC Training Environment <https://h2iosc-training-platform.ilc4clarin.ilc.cnr.it/>. For any inquiry, write to contact(a)circe-project.eu <mailto: contact(a)circe-project.eu>.

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