[Commlist] Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems conference

Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems
Conference

May 24–26, 2023, University of Siegen, Germany

Keynotes: Paul Kockelman, Michael Castelle and Ilana Gershon


Conference hosted by the Collaborative Research Center “Media of 
Cooperation”

https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/#technolinguistics-in-practice-socially-situating-language-in-ai-systems



Day 1: Wednesday, 24.05.2023 | Machinic Agents and Interactions


14:00–14:30 Conference Opening


14:30–15:45 Keynote Paul Kockelman

Who Do We Talk to When We Talk to Machines? Linguistic Anthropology in 
the Age of Artificial Intelligence


16:00–17:30 Session 1

Becoming a Conversational Agent User: Interaction with an “Automated 
Operator” in Phone Information Service

Alisa Maksimova


What Was the Smart Speaker?

David Waldecker, Axel Volmar, Tim Hector and Christine Hrncal


17:45–19:15 Session 2

How Human Interaction Can Inspire Convivial Language Technology

Andreas Liesenfeld and Mark Dingemanse


Frameworks as Infrastructures of Conversational AI

Marcus Burkhardt and Susanne Förster




Day 2: Thursday, 25.05.2023 | NLP Structures and Ideologies


10:00–11:15 Keynote Michael Castelle

Text as Task: A Guide to the Transformer Architecture and its Language 
Ideologies


11:30–13:00 Session 3

From “Natural” to “Culturally Grounded” and “Socially Anchored“: 
Examining the Notion of Language in NLP

Christoph Purschke, Alistair Plum and Catherine Tebaldi


What Python Can’t Do: Language Ideologies in Programming Courses for 
Natural Language Processing

Joseph Wilson


14:15–15:45 Session 4

Pragmatics in the History of NLP

Evan Donahue


Understanding the Limitations of Large Language Models

Ole Pütz and Steffen Eger


16:15–17:45 Session 5

Indexing Semantic Association

Tyler Shoemaker


Machine Learning as Semiotic Mediation

Yarden Skop and Siri Lamoureaux



Day 3: Friday, 26.05.2023 | Sociocultural Contexts


10:00–11:15 Keynote Ilana Gershon

ChatGPT: Genre, Scale, Animacy


11:30–13:00 Session 6

Reconfiguring the Regimentation of Multilingualism: From National 
Epistemology to Global Surveillance

Britta Schneider


Voice Diagnostics and Stress Monitoring: Infrastructuring and Automation 
of Health Data

Tanja Knaus and Susanne Bauer


14:15–15:45 Session 7

ConMan: Stories from a Cooperative Anthro-computational Approach to the 
Study of Conspiracy Theories

Alistair Plum, Catherine Tebaldi and Christoph Purschke


Abstracting Away: ‘Speakers’ and Minoritised Communication Ideologies

Alicia Fuentes-Calle


16:15–17:00 Session 8

It Is a Match: Language, AI-Powered Matchmaking and the Politics of 
Employability

Alfonso Del Percio


17:00–18:00 Wrap-Up & Discussion on Follow-Up Publication and Project 
Planning



Registration:

Attending the conference is free. We kindly ask guests to register via 
(technolinguistics /at/ sfb1187.uni-siegen.de)


Conference Website

https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veranstaltungen/technolinguistics-in-practice/ 



Location

Campus Unteres Schloss

Building C, Room 109

Unteres Schloss 3

57072 Siegen


The conference is funded by the DFG – German Research Foundation.


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