36.462, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Translation / Finland

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Subject: 36.462, Calls: Computational Linguistics, General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Translation / Finland

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Date: 04-Feb-2025
From: Maija Tervola [maija.tervola at tuni.fi]
Subject: SKY Symposium 2025: Meaning in language, machines and humans


Full Title: SKY Symposium 2025: Meaning in language, machines and
humans

Date: 02-Oct-2025 - 03-Oct-2025
Location: Tampere University, Finland

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Translation

Call Deadline: 22-Apr-2025

Call for Papers:
Meaning is a crucial concept in many areas of linguistics research as
well as outside linguistics. It is a core concept in semantics and
pragmatics, but it can also be approached from various angles, such as
social interaction, language learning, translation, interpreting and
many other language-related phenomena, thus making it
multidisciplinary in nature. In interactional research and
conversation analysis, meaning is often conceptualized as action,
something that the participants do and build together. In translation
and interpreting studies, the notion of meaning is inherent to
discussions on equivalence, skopos and the contextuality of meaning.
In psycholinguistics, meaning is at the heart of questions on
understanding language. In philosophy and semiotics, meaning is
conceptualized more as a sign or system of signs. Meaning also
combines language with visual or other perceptions. It can be
conceptualized as an entity, a phenomenon, or as a relation between
language and thought. Meaning can be the center of both empirical and
philosophical enquiry.
More recently, meaning has emerged as an essential concept in the
fields of language technology, AI and machine learning. As a result of
functional applications of language use and of the interface between
machines and humans, they have brought up both old and new
considerations of meaning, such as intentionality.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers from
different traditions, working with topics related to meaning. We hope
the symposium will provide a common forum for all researchers
interested in meaning but looking at it from different angles, so as
to encourage new combinations of ideas and new vantage points to
meaning.
Presentations may relate to (but are not restricted to) the following
themes:
 - semantics, both formal and functional approaches
 - pragmatics and language use
 - interaction research and interactional semantics
 - Interpersonal communication and listening research
 - language acquisition and language proficiency
 - translation and interpreting studies
 - psycholinguistics and understanding language
 - easy language and language design
 - theories of meaning
 - language philosophy and semiotics
 - machine translation
 - language models
 - natural language understanding (by machines)
 - spoken language understanding (by machines)
 - grounded speech and language models
 - discourse and dialogue modeling
 - automatic summarization
Submission Guidelines
The following paper categories are welcome:
 - Presentations (The talks will be 30 minutes long: 20 min for
presentation and 10 min for discussion.)
 - Posters
Abstract submission:
https://events.tuni.fi/skysymposium2025/abstract-submission/
Language of the proposals and symposium is English. Yet, we engourage
to present data, perspectives and examples of multiple languages.
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline: April 22, 2025.
Notifications of acceptance: May 31, 2025.
Conference: October 2-3, 2025
Venue: Tampere University, Finland
Website: https://events.tuni.fi/skysymposium2025/call-for-papers/



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