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Applied Linguistics - Eurac Research
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Topics: #multilingualism, #terminology, #translation, #NLProc, #LLMs, #corpuslinguistics, #digitalhumanities, #citizenscience
📢 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
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📢 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
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
📢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!
September 22, 2025 at 6:44 AM
📢 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
August 25, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🎉 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_...
August 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
👩‍🏫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
July 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📢 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
July 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
✍️ 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...
In che lingua parla la scuola?
Le Nuove Indicazioni Nazionali per il primo ciclo d’istruzione offrono una visione educativa ambiziosa, ponendosi come un vero e proprio manifesto politico-culturale, che riafferma il ruolo della scuo...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
👩‍🏫 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
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📢 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
June 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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
Muttersprache – ein Etikett, (zu) verschiedene Inhalte?
Der Begriff „Muttersprache” ist allgegenwärtig doch er wird selten eindeutig definiert. In diesem Text geht Prof. in Andrea Abel seinen vielschichtigen Bedeutungen auf den Grund.
www.unibzmagazine.it
June 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
How can language varieties be managed in #terminologydatabases? @natasciaralli.bsky.social will delve into this topic at #MDTT2025!😊
June 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📢 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
June 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
June 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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!
AIUCD2025 | Programma dettagliato
aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it
June 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
✍️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
May 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
May 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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"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
March 31, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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
May 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📢 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
📣 Call for Papers: #Interspeech2025! 🌟 Submit your groundbreaking research on speech science & technology by Feb 12, 2025. This year's theme: "Fair & Inclusive Speech Science and Technology" 🌐. Don't miss out! Details: interspeech2025.org 🎤
May 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📢 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
May 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
✍ 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
April 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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!⭐
April 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🆕 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...
April 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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
https://bit.ly/3G4YTwH.docx
Where ISO 24495-1 is available The ISO plain language standard is available from a growing number of countries and in more than 10 languages. You can purchase it in two ways: Internationally: from the...
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April 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM