34.2269, Confs: Complexity in Language Variation and Change

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Subject: 34.2269, Confs: Complexity in Language Variation and Change

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Date: 17-Jul-2023
From: David Sanchez [david.sanchez at uib.es]
Subject: Complexity in Language Variation and Change


Complexity in Language Variation and Change
Short Title: COMPILA2023

Date: 04-Aug-2023 - 04-Aug-2023
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contact: David Sanchez
Contact Email: david.sanchez at uib.es
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/compila2023/home

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Methods inspired by statistical mechanics have been successfully
applied to linguistic phenomena. The celebrated Zipf law points to
universal traits across languages, whereas the the pioneering work of
Abrams and Strogatz published exactly 20 years ago triggered
subsequent theoretical developments that deepened our understanding on
how some languages prevail while others disappear.

Yet, these approaches do not take into account that languages are
heterogeneous, subjected to variations in space and changes in time.
The complexity of the problem calls for new concepts and methods
possibly from game theory, agent-based models and reaction-diffusion
systems. Complexity in Language Variation and Change 2023 (COMPILA23)
aims at exploring the manifold interplay between language dynamics,
history and the social fabric from a quantitative viewpoint.
Importantly, the recent advent of massive data to linguistic studies
(big corpora, social networks) provides a unique opportunity to
achieve this goal.

Our satellite proposal builds upon the successful event COMPILA22, a
satellite meeting within the Conference on Complex Systems 2022, where
8 speakers and around 30 participants gathered together to discuss the
evolution of language, its connection with optimal communication, the
issue of gender grammar, and models for language competition and
language change, just to mention a few exciting topics. Therefore, the
new event COMPILA23 will be of interest to an interdisciplinary
community of quantitative linguists, statistical physicists, applied
mathematicians and computational sociolinguistics practitioners.

Program at:
https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/compila2023/home/program
Attendance is free! Just make the registration at: https://sites.googl
e.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/compila2023/home/registration



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