Call for Papers: Third Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics
Digital linguistics is a growing interdisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, information technology, and the social sciences. This is reflected by a growing number of new projects, publication series, and university courses. A central focus of digital linguistics is language data, i.e., digital artifacts that use human language as a form of expression. The range of these language data includes social media content, parliamentary transcripts, newspapers, and medieval manuscripts, among others. Such data are processed, annotated, analyzed, curated, shared, archived, and reused, among other activities. Also new technologies such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI play a growing role in digital linguistics. Therefore, the topics covered in this workshop span from the creation of digital language resources (corpora, dictionaries, etc.), new methods (application of LLMs and generative AI), analysis of language data (e.g., semantic change detection, emotion and sentiment analysis), to the use of standards and research infrastructures, as well as methods for long-term archiving or reuse of language data.
The variety of research in this field in Austria was shown during the first Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics and the second Austrian meeting on Digital Linguistics , as well as within the context of the previous Austrian Meeting on Sentiment Inferenz (ÖTSI 2021, 2023) , where 37 researchers from different Austrian and international research institutions presented their projects.
This year’s workshop “Third Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics” is a continuation of this workshop series, organized in the framework of CLARIAH-AT. Again, the aim of the workshop is to highlight recent developments in the Austrian research landscape and to connect different projects working with or on methods in digital linguistics, as well as the researchers involved. The workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of methodological insights and the creation of synergies through the mutual sharing of digital language resources, also within the framework of the research infrastructure CLARIAH-AT. Furthermore, the workshop also addresses international researchers, who are working in the field of digital linguistics and who want to present their research and exchange and connect with the Austrian research community.
Submissions:
- Abstracts should be between 150 and 300 words (excluding references).
- All abstracts need to have references and need to be formatted according to the Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics .
- Submissions do not need to be anonymized.
- Format of the presentations: 20 minutes presentations + 10 minutes discussion
- Submission deadline: Please submit until 15. September 2025 to the following email address: digital-linguistics /at/ oeaw.ac.at as pdf.
Each submission will be reviewed by 2 reviewers.
Travel cost support: Upon acceptance of the abstract, travel cost support can be provided by CLARIAH-AT, if needed.
Workshop organizers:
Tanja Wissik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Andreas Baumann, Universität Wien
Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien
Claudia Posch, Universität Innsbruck
Gerhard Rampl, Universität Innsbruck
Third Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics