36.3868, Calls: AI Linguistica - "Special Issue: Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface" (Jrnl)

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Date: 15-Dec-2025
From: Léa Huotari [lea.huotari at utu.fi]
Subject: AI Linguistica - "Special Issue: Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface" (Jrnl)


Journal: AI Linguistica
Issue: Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface
Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2026

Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface
Guest editors:
Léa Huotari, University of Turku
Mairi McLaughlin, University of California, Berkeley
Franz Meier, Dresden University of Technology
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of
the journal AI Linguistica. The aim of the special issue is to show
what scholarship at the boundary of Linguistics and Translation
Studies has to offer to our understanding of generative Artificial
Intelligence (henceforth AI).
The history of scholarship at the boundary of Linguistics and
Translation Studies is not linear. There was considerable overlap
between the two disciplines in the mid-twentieth century but as
Translation Studies became institutionalized as an autonomous
discipline in the final decades of the twentieth century, the two
fields grew further apart. In recent years both Translation Studies
and Linguistics have undergone rapid and extensive change. Among other
things, scholars in both disciplines must now grapple with the many
and complex implications of rapidly changing AI technologies. We
believe that these developments bring new impetus to work at the
boundary of Linguistics and Translation Studies. New tools, methods,
models, and theories can be drawn upon to address new questions at the
interface of these two core language disciplines.
We welcome proposals for papers examining different facets of AI from
the Linguistics-Translation Studies interface. These include, but are
not limited to, comparing human and AI textual outputs, exploring the
use of AI in translation quality assessment, and using AI in the
language and/or translation classroom. Papers can focus on different
linguistic levels and textual dimensions (lexemes/technical terms,
phrasemes, grammatical structures, syntactic patterns, discourse
traditions, textual conventions etc.) and there is no requirement to
work on any specific language pair. However, since a large proportion
of existing research on AI in both Linguistics and Translation Studies
is based on OpenAI’s GPT models, we encourage submissions that also
draw on other models such as Claude, Falcon, Le Chat, or Teuken 7B.
Please submit abstracts for a Short Paper (3,000 to 6,000 words) or a
Full-Length Article (8,000 to 15,000 words) to Léa Huotari
(lea.huotari at utu.fi), Mairi McLaughlin (mclaughlin at berkeley.edu), and
Franz Meier (franz.meier at tu-dresden.de) by 30th January 2026. The
abstract should be written in English and not exceed 500 words in
length, inclusive of references. Further information about the journal
and reference style can be found in the Instructions for Authors.
Authors will be informed whether their paper was accepted by February
15th 2026 and the final article should be submitted by 30th August
2026. The special issue will be published in December 2026.
URL: https://ai-ling.publia.org/ai_ling/about

Linguistic Field(s): Forensic Linguistics
                     Translation




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