31.3458, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Subject: 31.3458, Confs: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Disc Analys, Lang Acq, Text/Corpus Ling/Online

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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:30:45
From: Olga Orlova [lingforum at iling-ran.ru]
Subject: International Conference “Linguistic Forum 2020: Language and Artificial Intelligence”

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

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

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

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.
 

Program Information: 
 
You can find the conference program and the book of abstracts on our website
(https://iling-ran.ru/web/en/conferences/2020_lingforum).
 
The conference will be held via Zoom video conferencing.
 
If you would like to join the conference, send us an email
(lingforum at iling-ran.ru).





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