37.2286, Confs: AI-generated Texts in Romance and Germanic Language Varieties (Germany)

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Subject: 37.2286, Confs: AI-generated Texts in Romance and Germanic Language Varieties (Germany)

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Date: 07-Jul-2026
From: Franz Meier [franz.meier at tu-dresden.de]
Subject: AI-generated Texts in Romance and Germanic Language Varieties


AI-generated Texts in Romance and Germanic Language Varieties
Short Title: AI-ROM-IV

Date: 21-Sep-2026 - 22-Sep-2026
Location: Dresden, Germany
Contact: Franz Meier
Contact Email: ai.rom at mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Meeting URL: https://tud.link/yekbyz

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Forensic Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng, stan1293)
                     French (fra, stan1290)
                     German (deu)
                     Italian (ita, ital1282)
Language Family(ies): Germanic (germ1287); Romance (roma1334)

Online participation is possible upon request. Please fill in the
registration form under ‘registration’ on the conference homepage at:
https://tud.link/yekbyz.
Monday September 21, 2026
09:00-09:15 Anna-Maria De Cesare & Franz Meier (Technische Universität
Dresden): Conference Opening
09:15-10:15 Keynote: Sarah Brommer (Universität Bremen): Sprachliche
Vielfalt vs. ‚Supernorm‘. KI-gestütztes Schreiben und die Verschiebung
von Sprachnormen
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 Barbara Heinisch (Eurac Research, Bolzano): Developing an
annotation scheme for terminology evaluation in large language model
output for different German language varieties in the university
domain
11:00-11:30 Julian Schütz (Independent Researcher): Diatopic variation
and AI translation: a contrastive analysis of formulaic constructions
in regional varieties of Germany and Italy
11:30-12:00 Franz Meier (Technische Universität Dresden): Features of
orality in fictional dialogues published in_ Il Foglio AI_.
12:00-12:30 Francesco Saccà (Technische Universität Dresden):
Generating onomatopoeia for children’s audiobooks: a multilingual
comparative study on Multimodal Large Language Models’ (MLLMs)
sound-symbolic capabilities
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:00 Paramita Mirza (Technische Universität Dresden): Teuken:
Building a Multilingual LLM for All of Europe
15:00-15:30 Paolo Valentinelli (Università di Trento/Technische
Universität Dresden): What’s Inside the Black Box? A Novel
N-gram-based Approach to Understanding LLM Pre-training Datasets
15:30-16:00 Anna-Maria De Cesare Greenwald & Giulia Mantovani
(Technische Universität Dresden) & Luca Moroni (Sapienza Università di
Roma): Suffissi alterativi in natural vs synthetic fables: an
exploratory study
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Keynote: Gašper Beguš (University of California,
Berkeley): Understanding humans, animals, and machines
Tuesday September 22, 2026
9:30-10:30 Keynote: Valentina Crestani (Università degli Studi di
Milano Statale): Intelligenza artificiale: “persone” semplificate nei
testi in lingua facile tedesca e italiana?
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Claudia Cusano & Alice Suozzi & Sevilnur Bahadir &
Gianluca Lebani (Università Ca‘ Foscari Venezia): Do AI-Generated News
Amplify Bias? A Comparative Analysis of Femicide Reporting Across
Political Orientations
11:30-12:00 Ilaria Papagno & Vahram Atayan (Heidelberg): Evaluierung
großer Sprachmodelle zur automatischen Vereinfachung medizinischer
Texte in Einfache Sprache
12:00-12:30 Christopher Haberland (Washington/Council for Ligurian
Linguistic Heritage) & Stefano Lusito & Jean Maillard (Council for
Ligurian Linguistic Heritage): AI-Generated Texts in a Romance
Underrepresented Language: A Pilot Study on Genoese Ligurian
translation
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Keynote: Andrea Nini (University of Manchester): Large
Language Models and Forensic Linguistics: Challenges and Opportunities
15:30-16:00 Ferdinando Longobardi & Laura D’Amodio & Gaia Valeria
Gallo (Univesità degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale): Human and machine
authorship: identifying LLM-generated narratives through stylometric
markers
16:00-16:30 Mirko Tavosanis (Università di Pisa): Discussion /
Discussione
16.30.16:45 Anna-Maria De Cesare & Franz Meier (Technische Universität
Dresden): Closing Remarks



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