37.1582, Confs: ColDoc 2026 – PhD students and Young Researchers (France)

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Subject: 37.1582, Confs: ColDoc 2026 – PhD students and Young Researchers (France)

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Date: 24-Apr-2026
From: Yeo Jun YUN [43017589 at parisnanterre.fr]
Subject: ColDoc 2026 – PhD students and Young Researchers

ColDoc 2026 – PhD students and Young Researchers
Theme: Interfaces et interactions : dialogues entre niveaux d'analyse,
objets linguistiques, cadres disciplinaires et technologies

Date: 09-Nov-2026 - 10-Nov-2026
Location: Paris, France
Contact: Yeo jun Yun
Contact Email: coldoc2026 at sciencesconf.org
Meeting URL: https://coldoc2026.sciencesconf.org/index

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics

Submission Deadline: 26-Jun-2026

COLDOC is a biannual conference organized by doctoral students and
early-career researchers at the MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 –
CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre). This year's edition will be held on
November 9th and 10th.
For its 16th edition, COLDOC centers on the interfaces and
interactions that connect all areas of linguistics and natural
language processing. Language is inherently an interactive phenomenon,
yet the forms and frameworks through which interaction manifests have
continued to diversify across disciplines, methodologies, levels of
analysis, and technologies.
Linguistics today is characterized by a growing diversity of objects
and methods. Discourse analysis draws on annotated corpora, language
acquisition incorporates experimental protocols from cognitive
science, and computational linguistics both informs and challenges
theoretical models (Cartier, 2019). These disciplinary crossings are
not mere borrowings: they generate new categorizations, new questions,
and transform the very way we manipulate linguistic objects,
particularly through modeling and formalization. It is through this
interaction between disciplines that research advances.
Thematic Axes:
 - Interaction is not limited to dialogue between disciplines. It
concerns the very objects of linguistic inquiry:
 - Interface between levels of analysis: interaction across linguistic
levels such as syntax, semantics, phonetics, and others (Hagège,
2004);
vSocial and discursive interactions: between speakers in spoken and
written discourse (Charaudeau, 1984; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2005; Sacks
et al., 1974);
 - Multimodal interactions: between modalities in multimodal
communication (Mondada, 2017);
 - System interactions: between languages in contact situations
(Matras, 2009; Thomason & Kaufman, 1988), or between formal models and
real-world data;
 - Human-machine interaction: within conversational interfaces and
intelligent agents (Namvarpour, 2025).
At each of these levels, researchers are called upon to rethink their
analytical categories and to interrogate the boundaries, sometimes
blurry, sometimes productive, that separate units, levels, and domains
of language (Taylor, 2003).
This conference is conceived as an opportunity to reflect on the
interactions that structure, traverse, and renew research in
linguistics.
Intended Audience:
We invite doctoral students and early-career researchers from all
specializations within the linguistic sciences, from theoretical
linguistics to natural language processing, from sociolinguistics to
cognitive science, to submit contributions that shed light on these
dynamics. Work at any stage of advancement is welcome. Topics may
include, but are not limited to:
 - Interactions between levels of linguistic analysis
(syntax-semantics, prosody-pragmatics interfaces, etc.);
 - Interdisciplinary approaches and the contribution of computational
methods to corpus linguistics;
 - The challenges of formalization and annotation in the study of
interactions;
 - New forms of linguistic interaction shaped by technological and
societal change (generative AI, social media, etc.);
 - Questions of categorization and classification raised by these
crossings;
More broadly, any research approaching language through the lens of
interaction, regardless of discipline or methodological framework.
Doctoral students and early-career researchers wishing to participate
are invited to submit a proposal of up to 2 pages (excluding
bibliography) in Word format (Times New Roman, 12pt) via the
submission form on the COLDOC
Website: https://coldoc2026.sciencesconf.org/
Submissions may take the form of oral presentations, posters, or
demonstrations.
Proposals may be submitted in French or English.
All submissions must be anonymized. Please indicate whether you are
submitting for an oral presentation or a poster.
Submission deadline: June 26th, 2026.
Notification of acceptance: September 4th, 2026.
References:
Cartier, E. (2019). Emprunts en français contemporain : Étude
linguistique et statistique à partir de la plateforme Néoveille. In A.
Kacprzak, R. Mudrochová, & J.-F. Sablayrolles (Éds.), L'emprunt en
question(s) : Conceptions, réceptions, traitements lexicographiques.
Lambert Lucas. https://hal.science/hal-02537344
Charaudeau, P. (1984). L'interlocution comme interaction de stratégies
discursives. Verbum, VII(2-3).
Hagège, C. (2004). On categories, rules and interfaces in linguistics.
The Linguistic Review, 21.
Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. (2005). Le discours en interaction. Armand
Colin.
Matras, Y. (2009). Language contact. Cambridge University Press.
Mondada, L. (2017). Le défi de la multimodalité en interaction. Revue
française de linguistique appliquée, XXII(2), 71–87.
https://doi.org/10.3917/rfla.222.0071
Namvarpour, M., & Razi, A. (2025). The art of talking machines: A
comprehensive literature review of conversational user interfaces. In
Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User
Interfaces (CUI '25), Article 45, 1–18. Association for Computing
Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3719160.3736621
Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest
systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation.
Language, 50(4), 696–735.
Taylor, J. R. (2003). Linguistic categorization (3rd ed.). Oxford
University Press.
Thomason, S. G., & Kaufman, T. (1988). Language contact, creolization,
and genetic linguistics. University of California Press.
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520912793

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