/linguistics/aggregator Linguistics - aggregated feeds en https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3838/ In this newsletter: LDC 2026 membership discounts now available LDC’s 1000th corpus Approaching deadline for Spring 2026 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break December 25 – January 2 New publications: 2021 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Development and Test Set LORELEI Sinhala Incident Language Pack ________________________________________ LDC 2026 membership discounts now available Now through March 2, 2026, any organization that joins the Consortium o Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3837/ Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Johanson (born March 8, 1936) of Turcology sadly passed away in Mainz, Germany on November 24, 2025. Lars Johanson, Swedish-born linguist, played a crucial role in establishing the study of Turkic languages as a modern linguistic discipline. In addition to his significant work on Turkic linguistics, his studies in general linguistics, primarily language typology, are of great importance. His theoretical models for the study of verbal aspect systems, evidentiality, and Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3836/ Title: Language as Hope Subtitle: - Series Title: - Publication Year: 2025 Publisher: Cambridge University Press ( http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics ) Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/language-as-hope/D50E18AB271F1A401C7FF69297AB2600 Author(s): Daniel N. Silva & Jerry Won Lee Reviewer: Merijn Benning SUMMARY Written by Daniel N. Silva and Jerry W. Lee, Language as Hope (Cambridge University Press, 2025, 185 pages) consists of seven parts: an introducti Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3835/ Focus: ACT-R Teachers: Jelmer Borst & Stephen Jones (University of Groningen) Website: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/ ACT-R is a high-level cognitive theory and simulation system for developing cognitive models for tasks that vary from simple reaction time experiments to driving a car, learning algebra, and air traffic control. ACT-R can be used to develop process models of a task at a symbolic level. Participants will follow a compressed five-day version of the traditional summer school cu Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3834/ This workshop will take a corpus- and computational-linguistics perspective on fake news and related phenomena, where fake news is defined along the axes of veracity and honesty, giving rise to three types: 1) false but honest news, such as errors, which corresponds to misinformation; 2) false and dishonest news, such as lies; and 3) true but dishonest news, in which crucial pieces of information may be omitted (so as to fit a certain narrative, as seen, arguably, in propaganda), or in which tru Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3833/ The Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP) is a recurring workshop that brings together researchers from linguistics, NLP, and language technology to examine the relationship between linguistic theory and language processing. The 35th workshop is co-organized by the LLM Powered LinguaMed Research Team and the Institute for the Study of Language and Information at Kyung Hee University (KH-ISLI). Now in its 35th workshop, JWLLP continues its tradition of encouraging inter Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3834/ This workshop will take a corpus- and computational-linguistics perspective on fake news and related phenomena, where fake news is defined along the axes of veracity and honesty, giving rise to three types: 1) false but honest news, such as errors, which corresponds to misinformation; 2) false and dishonest news, such as lies; and 3) true but dishonest news, in which crucial pieces of information may be omitted (so as to fit a certain narrative, as seen, arguably, in propaganda), or in which tru Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3833/ The Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing (JWLLP) is a recurring workshop that brings together researchers from linguistics, NLP, and language technology to examine the relationship between linguistic theory and language processing. The 35th workshop is co-organized by the LLM Powered LinguaMed Research Team and the Institute for the Study of Language and Information at Kyung Hee University (KH-ISLI). Now in its 35th workshop, JWLLP continues its tradition of encouraging inter Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3832/ Neurodevelopmental conditions like ADHD and autism can impact various aspects of language and communication, for instance, language processing, conversational abilities, and the acquisition of first and additional languages. This 1-day conference aims to bring together researchers from various disciplines – psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, applied linguistics, clinical psychology, special needs education, and more – who are exploring the intersection of communication and neurodiversity i Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:05:02 -0500 https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3831/ Linguistics Prague is a conference aimed at graduate students of linguistics and related fields. Successfully running since 2013, the conference will be opened to international audience for the sixth time in 2026 with English as the language of the conference. Having become a well established event in Czech academia, the conference is set to welcome international researchers to improve the diversity and quality of the contributions even further. The conference aims at young researchers to provid Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:05:02 -0500