Following a number of requests, we have opted to briefly extend the deadline for this call. And please note the explicitly interdisciplinary scope of the conference. I'm purposefully sending this to a broad spread of mailing lists, as we aim to draw in a breadth of specialisms.
Venue & date: University of Granada, Spain, 24-25 June 2025 Plenary speakers: Dr. Loredana Cerrato [1] Senior Consultant, Microsoft Sweden; and EM Lewis-Jong, Director for Mozilla Common Voice [2] Abstract submission *extended* deadline: Friday 7 February 2025 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferenc... [3]
'Humans, Machines, Language' (HuMaLa - https://r.jyu.fi/humala [4]) is a cross-disciplinary network for a wide range of linguists, developers, and humanists with different interests in the impact of language technologies that integrate with human senses.
Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! Our inaugural conference theme is: 'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing'.
In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or datasets), we warmly encourage theoretical and empirical studies on the sociolinguistic, ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption.
The full call with further background details is on our website (linked above). Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcement here: https://bsky.app/profile/humala.bsky.social/post/3lfd5lysvam2o [5]
We hope to see you at the conference!
All the best, Amal Haddad (on behalf of the committee)