Humans, Machines, Language

Annual conference University of Granada, Spain 24-25 June 2025

https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferenc...

We welcome everyone interested in the impact of new and emerging 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! HuMaLa leads on from the COST Action 'Language In The Human-Machine Era' (https://lithme.eu [1]); you can find out more about our core themes of interest from the LITHME forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1 [2]) and animations (https://lithme.eu/animations [3]).

HuMaLa's inaugural conference will be held at the University of Granada, Spain, on 24-25 June 2025. The conference theme is:

'Humanistic insights for human-machine language technologies: privacy, security, and wellbeing' This echoes the priorities of the EU's recently introduced AI Act: "human oversight, safety, privacy, transparency, non-discrimination and social and environmental wellbeing" (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96212/ [4]). We hope to explore these timely topics from a range of humanistic perspectives, with a focus on human-machine language technologies. We welcome researchers and developers from computer science, linguistics, sociology, education, and more. To understand the more general scope of the conference, again, see the LITHME forecast report [2] and animations [3]. In addition to technical work (e.g., model description or dataset), we also welcome theoretical and empirical studies on the ethical, legal, cultural and social implications of language technology adoption across these domains. Presentation format: Talk (20 mins) or Poster, non-archival Presentations can address any of the topics that fall within the interests of HuMaLa. Selection for places will be made by the conference scientific committee. We encourage early career applicants to read a guide on abstract writing, for example: https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-futures/how-to-write-an-abst... [5]. Senior colleagues are used to all this, and are therefore at a somewhat unfair advantage. We hope the above guide (and others like it) will help early career applicants to craft their abstract more precisely. Abstract submission deadline: Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00 (noon) GMT Website: https://sites.google.com/view/humans-machines-language/events/2025-conferenc...

We are looking forward to seeing you in Granada.

Links: ------ [1] https://lithme.eu/ [2] https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1 [3] https://lithme.eu/animations [4] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96212/ [5] https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/student-futures/how-to-write-an-abst...