<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this email finds you well.</div><div><br></div><div>Below, please find attached a call for papers that might be of your interest.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(31,31,31)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We would be truly grateful if you could kindly share this information within your network.</font></span></span></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_8538802889629516314m_-7047807998665761390m_3661547508701199132m_-2157122195141813960gmail-docs-internal-guid-410190a8-7fff-1b23-e673-007f38762828"><span class="gmail-im"><h1 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, </font></span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI)</font></span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font size="4">November 21-22, 2026</font></b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission deadline: </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">August 15, 2026</span></font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Web:</b> </span><a href="https://gaussaiglobal.com/lama-ai-forum" target="_blank" style="white-space:pre-wrap;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://gaussaiglobal.com/lama-ai-forum</span></a></font><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></p></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:center"><br></div><span class="gmail-im"><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Following the international online workshop series </span><em style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Linguistics Meets ChatGPT: From Prompt to Theory, </em><span style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)">organized by MANOVA AI / Gauss: AI Global, we are delighted to announce the <b>First International Online Forum on Language, Mathematics, and Artificial Intelligence (LAMA-AI)</b>.</span></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></span></div></span><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span id="m_8538802889629516314m_-7047807998665761390gmail-docs-internal-guid-ea5055aa-7fff-6f78-ea74-06d0ceeed818" style="white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-im"><p role="presentation" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-weight:700">Aim of the Forum</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The aim of this conference is fourfold:</span></p><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span id="m_8538802889629516314m_-7047807998665761390gmail-docs-internal-guid-1a24ccad-7fff-d0ab-be6e-fc17c9ac7d70" style="text-align:start;white-space:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></span></p></span><ol style="color:rgb(31,31,31);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span class="gmail-im"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To shed light on LLMs’ internal organization — tokenization, embeddings, vectors, transformer architecture, and high-dimensional vector spaces — and their implications for our respective fields of inquiry.</span></p></li></span><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">To bring together linguists, mathematicians, cognitive scientists, <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:normal">and other researchers interested in AI in a stimulating atmosphere for the exchange of ideas on applying LLMs to scientific work.</span></p></li><span class="gmail-im"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To identify limitations of LLMs and propose qualified, field-specific solutions that can be implemented computationally to advance current AI models.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">To foster a genuine, unfragmented dialogue by running LAMA-AI as a single, sequential session with no parallel tracks.</span></p></li></span></ol></span></span></div><span class="gmail-im"><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span id="m_8538802889629516314m_-7047807998665761390gmail-docs-internal-guid-7c9436fb-7fff-47ac-0408-0609d168e588" style="white-s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variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">In case of any questions, please feel free to contact us at <span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:contact@manova-ai.com" target="_blank">contact@manova-ai.com</a>.</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></span></font></div></span><div style="color:rgb(31,31,31);white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="cid:ii_mq98h4mo0" alt="LAMA-AI.jpg" width="333" height="507" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"></div></span></span></div></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>With kindest regards,</div><div><br></div><div>On behalf of the Organizing Committee,</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(40,40,41)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font color="#999999"><i>Yolanda Xavier</i></font></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(40,40,41)"><br></span></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(153,153,153);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FCT PhD Grant holder | Researcher</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(27,70,140);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(128,128,128);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=Av.+de+Berna,+26&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Av. de Berna, 26</a> C, 1069-061 Lisboa | Portugal</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(128,128,128);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline">E-mail: yolandaxavier</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline">@<a href="http://fcsh.unl.pt/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">fcsh.unl.pt</a></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:gray">Web:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:small"> </span><a href="http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:Calibri;white-space:pre-wrap" target="_blank">www.fcsh.unl.pt</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:3pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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