31.1492, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Text/Corpus Ling/Russia, Online

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Subject: 31.1492, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analysis, Lang Acquisition, Text/Corpus Ling/Russia, Online

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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:21:45
From: Olga Orlova [lingforum at iling-ran.ru]
Subject: International Conference “Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence”

 
Full Title: International Conference “Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence” 

Date: 12-Nov-2020 - 14-Nov-2020
Location: Moscow, Russia 
Contact Person: Olga Orlova
Meeting Email: lingforum at iling-ran.ru
Web Site: https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/2020_lingforum 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia;
https://iling-ran.ru/web/en) is organizing an international conference
“Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence” to be held
November 12-14, 2020. 

In connection with the current epidemic situation the forum’s Program
Committee has decided to extend the deadline for paper abstract submission
till May 20, 2020. Also, because it is difficult to foresee the situation of
November, the Program Committee has decided to allow for a distance
presentation of some conference papers with the help of a telecommunication
platform.

This conference is part of a series of annual linguistic forums initiated by
the Institute of Linguistics RAS in 2019 each dedicated to a socially
important aspect of the science of language. 

The aim of the forum is to foster dialogue among researchers working at the
interface of linguistics and artificial intelligence including those engaged
in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Developments in
AI have been responsible for recent advances in natural language generation
and comprehension; they have also expanded the boundaries of these
technologies' applicability. Neural networks and dense embeddings have
replaced models based on feature engineering and traditional discrete
categories of linguistic analysis.  As a result, the boundary between
fundamental and applied linguistic research is being eroded. Empirical
linguistics is taking on board these new technologies, in part, to enable
better modelling of language and documentation of data. AI is also
increasingly becoming a part of the everyday life of language users. Can
fundamental linguistics currently offer technologically viable ideas or
methods? These and similar conceptual and methodological problems will be the
focus of the forum.


Call for Papers: 

Among the topics that would be of interest to discuss at the forum, the
Program Committee highlights the following:
 - Neural networks (and other machine learning methods) and the problems of
their interpretability
 - Language generation and comprehension: commonalities and differences
 - Linguistic diversity and multilingualism as challenges for AI
 - Discourse types: modes, genres, and styles
 - Textual complexity and coherence
 - Language in the context of multimodal communication
 - Modelling individual differences in language
 - Non-discrete phenomena in language
 - Emerging and prospective linguistic technologies

Please submit abstracts on these and any topics related to the overall theme
of the forum by May 20, 2020 to the email address lingforum at iling-ran.ru.
Abstracts should be anonymized, including the file name and file properties;
in the accompanying message please indicate the paper title, full names of the
authors, their affiliations, email addresses and phone numbers. The Program
Committee will select the most substantial and relevant papers on the basis of
a blind review procedure. 

Abstracts should not exceed two pages of text including illustrations and
references. Abstracts must be created using either the Word or LaTeX templates
that are available on the forum’s web page:
 - Word:
https://iling-ran.ru/web/sites/default/files/conferences/2020/2020_lingforum_t
emplate_anonymous.dot
 - LaTeX:
https://iling-ran.ru/web/sites/default/files/conferences/2020/2020_lingforum_t
emplate_anonymous.tex

For more information visit the forum’s web page:
https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/2020_lingforum




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