36.2982, Confs: Workshop at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Linguistic Creativity in the Age of Generative AI (Spain)

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Date: 03-Oct-2025
From: Vincent Renner [vincent.renner at univ-lyon2.fr]
Subject: Workshop at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Linguistic Creativity in the Age of Generative AI


Workshop at the 2026 ESSE Conference: Linguistic Creativity in the Age
of Generative AI

Date: 31-Aug-2026 - 04-Sep-2026
Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Meeting URL: https://www.esse2026.com

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Morphology; Semantics;
Syntax; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Submission Deadline: 31-Jan-2026

18th European Society for the Study of English Conference
University of Santiago de Compostela
Call for papers: Workshop #15 on Linguistic Creativity in the Age of
Generative AI
This workshop aims to bring together linguists of all stripes (e.g.
those interested in the study of English semantics, morphology,
phraseology, syntax, or human and machine translation from/into
English) who share an interest in the ways in which the recent
advances in AI-enhanced language technology, such as LLM-powered
chatbots and neural machine translation tools, are reshaping scholarly
views of linguistic creativity. We distinguish between the process and
product sides of creativity (see e.g. Runco 2024) and assume the
existence of a cline between rule-based F(ixed)-creativity and
rule-bending E(xtending)-creativity / X(travagant)-creativity (see
e.g. Bergs 2019, Koliopoulou & Walker 2024), which leads us to narrow
the workshop's focus to linguistic products characterized by a
distance from the pole of F-creativity — we take the concept of
linguistic creative output to broadly encompass any innovation that is
not strictly predictable from the rules of the linguistic system.
We invite empirical contributions on topics including (but not limited
to) the following:
- linguistic analyses of AI-generated creative outputs, including
their biases and other limitations;
- AI-based linguistic analyses of creative outputs, including their
biases and other limitations;
- creativity ratings of AI-generated vs. hybrid (e.g. through
post-editing) vs. human-generated outputs, in terms of originality
and/or acceptability (including grammaticality judgments).
Papers may focus on a large variety of creative outputs, whether they
are created from scratch, derived from previous creative work, or
translated.
Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words, excluding references) to
the 3 convenors  — vincent.renner at univ-lyon2.fr;
marie-aude.lefer at uclouvain.be; caroline.rossi at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr —
by 31 January 2026.
Selected Bibliography:
Bergs, Alexander, 2019, What, if anything, is linguistic creativity?
Gestalt Theory, 41(2), 173-184. https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2019-0017
Boden, Margaret A., 2014, Creativity and artificial intelligence: A
contradiction in terms? In E. S. Paul & S. B. Kaufman (eds), The
Philosophy of Creativity: New Essays, 224-244, Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199836963.003.0012
Castaldo, Antonio & Johanna Monti, 2024, Prompting large language
models for idiomatic translation. In B. Vanroy, M.-A. Lefer, L. Macken
& P. Ruffo (eds), Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Creative-Text
Translation and Technology, 32-39, European Association for Machine
Translation. https://aclanthology.org/2024.ctt-1.4
Dinu, Anca, Andra-Maria Florescu & Alina Resceanu, 2025, A comparative
approach to assessing linguistic creativity of large language models
and humans, unpublished manuscript.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12039
Guerberof-Arenas, Ana & Antonio Toral, 2022, Creativity in
translation: Machine translation as a constraint for literary texts,
Translation Spaces, 11(2), 184-212.
https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.21025.gue
Koliopoulou, Maria & Jim Walker, 2024, Exploring creativity and
extravagance: The case of double suffixation in English. Languages,
9(3), 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030088
Runco, Mark A., 2024, The discovery and innovation of AI does not
qualify as creativity, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, advance online
publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2024.2436362
Storment, John David, 2024, Emojis & the metalinguistic performance of
LLMs, unpublished manuscript. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008597



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