[Linganth] Fwd: Technolinguistics Conference Final Program May 24-26 - please circulate
Ilana Gershon
imgershon at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 13:01:04 UTC 2023
Dear interested persons,
We are delighted to invite you to the international
workshop:*Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in
AI Systems *
*May 24–26, 2023, University of Siegen, Germany*
*Keynotes: Paul Kockelman, Michael Castelle and Ilana Gershon*
Conference hosted by the Collaborative Research Center “Media of
Cooperation”
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/#technolinguistics-in-practice-socially-situating-language-in-ai-systems
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*Day 1: Wednesday, 24.05.2023 | Machinic Agents and Interactions *
14:00–14:30 Conference Opening
14:30–15:45 Keynote Paul Kockelman
Who Do We Talk to When We Talk to Machines? Linguistic Anthropology in
the Age of Artificial Intelligence
16:00–17:30 Session 1
Becoming a Conversational Agent User: Interaction with an “Automated
Operator” in Phone Information Service
Alisa Maksimova
What Was the Smart Speaker?
David Waldecker, Axel Volmar, Tim Hector and Christine Hrncal
17:45–19:15 Session 2
How Human Interaction Can Inspire Convivial Language Technology
Andreas Liesenfeld and Mark Dingemanse
Frameworks as Infrastructures of Conversational AI
Marcus Burkhardt and Susanne Förster
*Day 2: Thursday, 25.05.2023 | NLP Structures and Ideologies*
10:00–11:15 Keynote Michael Castelle
Text as Task: A Guide to the Transformer Architecture and its Language
Ideologies
11:30–13:00 Session 3
From “Natural” to “Culturally Grounded” and “Socially Anchored“:
Examining the Notion of Language in NLP
Christoph Purschke, Alistair Plum and Catherine Tebaldi
What Python Can’t Do: Language Ideologies in Programming Courses for
Natural Language Processing
Joseph Wilson
14:15–15:45 Session 4
Pragmatics in the History of NLP
Evan Donahue
Understanding the Limitations of Large Language Models
Ole Pütz and Steffen Eger
16:15–17:45 Session 5
Indexing Semantic Association
Tyler Shoemaker
Machine Learning as Semiotic Mediation
Yarden Skop and Siri Lamoureaux
*Day 3: Friday, 26.05.2023 | Sociocultural Contexts*
10:00–11:15 Keynote Ilana Gershon
ChatGPT: Genre, Scale, Animacy
11:30–13:00 Session 6
Reconfiguring the Regimentation of Multilingualism: From National
Epistemology to Global Surveillance
Britta Schneider
Voice Diagnostics and Stress Monitoring: Infrastructuring and Automation
of Health Data
Tanja Knaus and Susanne Bauer
14:15–15:45 Session 7
ConMan: Stories from a Cooperative Anthro-computational Approach to the
Study of Conspiracy Theories
Alistair Plum, Catherine Tebaldi and Christoph Purschke
Abstracting Away: ‘Speakers’ and Minoritised Communication Ideologies
Alicia Fuentes-Calle
16:15–17:00 Session 8
It Is a Match: Language, AI-Powered Matchmaking and the Politics of
Employability
Alfonso Del Percio
17:00–18:00 Wrap-Up & Discussion on Follow-Up Publication and Project
Planning
Registration:
Attending the conference is free. We kindly ask guests to register via
technoliguistics at sfb1187.uni-siegen.de
Conference Website
https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veranstaltungen/technolinguistics-in-practice/
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Location
Campus Unteres Schloss
Building C, Room 109
Unteres Schloss 3
57072 Siegen
The conference is funded by the DFG – German Research Foundation.
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