📢 Two new blog posts on "Ask a Linguist" for a cozy read on these dark November evenings... Take a break, grab a cup of tea and enjoy! 🍵📖 Links below! 👇🏼 #LANGUAGE

📢 We’re excited to share two fresh blog posts: Discover how AI can help us analyse historical texts and what migratismo means! Links below! 👇🏼 #LANGUAGE

📢The 9th edition of SummerTrans has kicked off at Eurac Research in Bolzano! ✨ Co-organised w/ @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social under the auspices of the International Academy for #Translation & Interpreting, this year’s focus is on human & #machinetranslation w/ a focus on #legaltranslation!

📢 New release! "Teacher Questionnaire for Research on Plurilingual Education", a tool for researchers studying teachers’ plurilingual practices. Get it here👉🏼 hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124... #plurilingualeducation #questionnaire #teachers #multilingualism #CLARIN

🎉 Our very first #Interspeech2025 paper is out! We’re thrilled to share our initial step toward developing #speech translation technology for South Tyrolean.🤩 📄 "Speech transcription from South Tyrolean #Dialect to Standard German with Whisper" 🔗 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

👩‍🏫Last week at the 22nd Decentering Migration Studies conference in Paris! Maria Stopfner & Marta Guarda presented on teachers & students as mediators for social cohesion in postmigrant societies. More research needed to decenter #migrationstudies! #LANGUAGE #IMISCOE2025 #plurilingualism

📢 LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR THE ENTIRE #SummerTrans IX by 15 July! NB: Registration to single courses only has been opened and will be possible until 1 September 📅 21–27.09.2025 📍 Bolzano/Bozen (I) 🔍 Human vs Machine Translation (focus on legal #translation) 👉 Register now: lnkd.in/dGrPjxM9

✍️ Quale plurilinguismo viene riconosciuto e valorizzato nelle nuove Indicazioni Nazionali per il primo ciclo di istruzione? Una riflessione alla luce delle pratiche e delle ricerche condotte in un territorio multilingue come l’Alto Adige/Südtirol. #plurilinguismo 👉 www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/con...

👩‍🏫 We are proud to participate in the 20th #ICML2025 conference on Minority Languages at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotà! Our Marta Guarda is talking about validating #heritagelanguages in the mainstream classroom from the lens of epistemic justice. #minoritylanguages #LANGUAGE

📢 New in our #CLARIN repository! 5 datasets from the HELLO CAMPANIA project by the University of Naples exploring heritage languages spoken by immigrant communities in Italy's Campania region. 🌍🗣️ Our total now reaches 40 research datasets! 🤩 🔗 clarin.eurac.edu/repository/x... #LANGUAGE #OpenData

Was heißt eigentlich #Muttersprache? Ein Begriff, der viel verwendet, aber selten eindeutig ist. Andrea Abel beleuchtet seine widersprüchlichen Bedeutungen – zwischen #Identität, Kompetenz und #Ideologie. Lesen Sie ihr Editorial hier: www.unibzmagazine.it/it/magazine/... 📖 #Linguistik #unibz

How can language varieties be managed in #terminologydatabases? @natasciaralli.bsky.social will delve into this topic at #MDTT2025!😊

📢 REGISTRATION TO SINGLE COURSES IS NOW OPEN! 📅 When: 21–27 September 2025 📍 Where: Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 🎯 Target: you! 🔍 Theme: Human vs Machine Translation with a special focus on legal translation 👉 Register now: lnkd.in/dkXTuXdd

Let the summer begin with two new blog posts! ⛱️☀️ Discover why plain language goes beyond just choosing the right words and learn what linguists actually do with massive amounts (or megabytes) of language data once a project ends. Happy reading! Links below 👇 #LANGUAGE

We’re now on BlueSky! The Italian Association for DH has just launched its official account! 📅 This is the week of the #AIUCD2025 Conference in Verona: aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/en-gb/detail... 📡 We’ll be sharing updates and highlights from the conference right here. 🖖 See you soon in Verona!

✍️This month on our blog, we reveal some famous Italianisms around the world & provide surprising information on how different languages –like Chinese– deal w/ them. We also explain why it's so challenging to represent female designations in legal terminology DBs. Have fun! Links below 👇 #LANGUAGE

Lingue, territori e contrasti: le nostre Marta Guarda e Andrea Leone Pizzighella oggi al congresso DILLE a Tirana! 👉 www.societadille.it/x-congresso-... #DILLE #appliedlinguistics #languagepolicies #languageducation #LANGUAGE

"Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2025" 🗺️ Milan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 🗓️June 18-20, 2025 ❗️Deadline for abstract submission: May 10th 2025 ❗️Registration deadline: June 5th 2025 More info: www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-... #Lecture2025 #NLProc

The notifications are out and we have accepted a record-breaking number of papers! Of the 2332 papers sent for review, 1163 were accepted! Acceptance rate: 49.87% ⚠️ Camera-ready deadline: May 31! 🗓️ Registration opens soon 📨 Subscribe to our newsletter www.interspeech2025.org/newsletter

📢 We’re excited to announce that our very first submission to @interspeech.bsky.social has been accepted! 🥳 We’ll be presenting our fine-tuned LLM designed to transcribe low-resource South Tyrolean dialectal speech into Standard German. Looking forward to it! 🤩 #Interspeech2025 #NLProc #LANGUAGE

📢 We’re happy to announce that the EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FOR SummerTrans IX HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 15th! 📅 21–27 September 2025 📍 Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 🔍 Human vs. Machine Translation with a special focus on legal translation 👉 Register now: lnkd.in/dkXTuXdd #LANGUAGE #translation

✍ This month you won't just be finding Easter eggs... we also have two fresh Ask a Linguist blog posts for you: discover how languages are constantly evolving and explore the growing impact of AI on our everyday lives. Happy Easter! 🐰🥚 Links below 👇 #LANGUAGE #NLProc #AI

Nuovo evento per la prossima settimana! In arrivo la lezione "L'annotazione linguistica: arte o scienza? Principi, sfide e applicazione pratiche". 🗣️ @rsprugnoli.bsky.social (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) 🗓️ 10/04/2025, ore 13-16 📍 Aula Caminetto 🔗 unipv-it.zoom.us/j/5628902980 Join us!⭐

🆕 Release 2.23 der Datenbank für Gespr. Deutsch (#DGD)! NEU: Erstveröffentlichung der Korpora „Sprachsituation an der innerdt. Grenze“ (SPIG), „Sprechen über die ehemalige innerdt. Grenze“ (SEIG) und „Deutschböhmen in Brasilien“ (BOBR), verb. Funktionalitäten. 🔗 agd.ids-mannheim.de/Releasemails...

We have exciting news for anyone interested in ISO’s plain language standard. Quite a few countries have translated and adopted the standard. Additional countries are selling the standard. The International Plain Language Federation has put together a list of these countries. bit.ly/3G4YTwH 1/4

Applications are now open for the graduate programme in "Linguistic Computing" at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore! #Milan #NLProc #artificalintelligence www.unicatt.it/en/programme...

Join us: new job position opened! 👉 Researcher in legal terminology, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research, Bolzano. Deadline: 16.05.2025. Info & application: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/Lm5oPKG... #hiring #legalterminology #terminologymanagement #terminologystandardization

Support: New Funding Opportunity for Students, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

📢 Conference registration now open! 📢 Registration for #CL2025 is now open, with early bird rates valid until 9th May. Registration info: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration Workshops info: www.cl2025.co.uk/programme/wo... We're very excited to welcome you to Birmingham in just over 3 months!

Back from the three-day #DTT Symposium in Worms on #Terminology and #AI: I gained valuable insights and inputs for our projects, enjoyed the tutorial with E. Evers (University of Hildesheim) on gender and terminology work, really liked the pleasant atmosphere and the exchange with (new)colleagues.🔝🔝

So glad that this volume is underway! Congrats editors Henry Tyne & @sspina.bsky.social and @johnbenjamins.bsky.social series editor @ute-rb.bsky.social #corpuslinguistics More on my contributions here later on 🎓🎓 benjamins.com/catalog/scl....

🚨Publication Alert Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉 Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇 Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... #OpenAccess

In beautiful Edinburgh this week for the @bilingmatters25.bsky.social symposium, where we'll present our work on #SpeechToText tech for South Tyrolean German dialect!☀️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👉 Programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73450/... #LANGUAGE #multilingualism #LLM #AITranscription #VoiceRecognition

🎙️ The new publication of the Council for German-speaking Terminology (RaDT) on gender and terminology management (in German) is finally out🔝😃 Happy reading! 👉 cdn.website-editor.net/a53d11b63e10... #gender #terminologydatabase #terminologymanagement #radt

🎉 Celebrate the National Day of Dialects and Local Languages! Thanks @UniversitàVerona for sharing this article with S. Rabanus: www.univrmagazine.it/2025/01/15/g... Discover more insights from the Alpilink research and how you can help preserve these invaluable linguistic resources: alpilink.it/en/

Explore applied linguistics books, journals, and the latest #openaccess research from Cambridge University Press: 📚 cup.org/4kNxaRa #AAAL2025

📢 Was bedeutet „Muttersprache“ eigentlich? Anlässlich des #TagderMuttersprache hinterfragt die Sprachwissenschaftlerin Andrea Abel den Begriff: 🗣️ Erstsprache? Identität? Vielfalt? 📖 Sprache ist lebendig, nicht statisch! 🚀 Weniger Angst vor Fehlern, mehr Freude an Mehrsprachigkeit! bit.ly/4gLAJnC

✍This month on Ask a Linguist: discover how human insight and automated metrics can refine MT evaluation, and how Morocco's Atlas Lions elevated Darija & Amazigh identity globally! 🤖⚽🌍 Links below! 👇 #AI #LANGUAGE #NLProc #WorldCup #Linguistics

Terminology and inclusion: dimensions, applications, limitations. 3 mini-talks: Elena Chiocchetti @euracling.bsky.social Chantal Reid, Karine Rondeau, Government of Canada Translation Bureau Ralli Natascia, Elisabeth Evers @lexiconista.bsky.social EAFT Conversations, 15.00 CET Thursday 13 March

IJL advanced article alert: "Current Trends in Online Sign Language Dictionaries" by Rachele Sprugnoli doi.org/10.1093/ijl/...

Happy to share our paper on Intensification in L2 Italian. It is part of a project I made with my colleagues and friends @andreaabel.bsky.social and Aivars Glaznieks at @euracling.bsky.social sky.social in Bozen, South Tyrol. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Don't miss the #SummerTrans2025! When: from 21 to 27 September 2025. Where: Eurac Research, Bolzano (Italy) Motto: #HumanVsMachine #translation with a focus on #legal translation 👉 Registration open: lnkd.in/df-xz5WF 🔗 More details: www.summertrans2025.eu/en #terminology #law #MT #ChatGPT

✍ This month, our Ask a Linguist blog celebrates our passion for research, highlighting our journey to achieving the prestigious #CoreTrustSeal certification for language data and guiding us through the intricate nuances of meaning. Links below! 👇 #LANGUAGE #multilingualism #NLP #CLARIN