Full Title: The 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics
Short Title: SICOL-2024

Date: 08-Aug-2024 - 09-Aug-2024
Location: Seoul, Korea, South
Contact Person: Hanjung Lee
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://lsk202324.github.io/2024_summer/index.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 20-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

The Linguistic Society of Korea (LSK) is pleased to announce the 2024 Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-2024) to be held in a hybrid format on August 8-9 (Thur-Fri), 2024 at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.

The theme for SICOL-2024 is ‘Reenvisioning linguistic creativity: Language and AI in interaction.’ Recent advances in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significant implications for academia in general and language education and research specifically. Linguistic research utilizing AIs usually focuses on what they can do with language. There are growing discussions of how AIs based on a large language model (LLM) understand and use language. Less investigated, however, has been the possible role of novel generative AI tools, such as AI LLM chatbots, in assisting researchers in the conception, development, and execution of research and data analysis.

SICOL-2024 provides a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research focusing on the theoretical and empirical study of ‘language research in the era of post-generative AI’ from both perspectives: what AIs can do with language and what they can do for linguists.

It will feature four invited presentations by the following distinguished scholars:

John Beavers (University of Texas at Austin)
Benjamin Bruening (University of Delaware)
Thomas Hoffmann (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg)

The SICOL-2024 organizing committee welcomes abstract submissions for 20-minute oral presentations, followed by 10 minutes for discussion and questions. We invite papers related to the conference theme such as applications of AI in language research, language education, and communication. We also invite papers from all subfields of linguistics (morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, language acquisition, variation, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics). Equal consideration will be given to papers addressing the conference theme and to papers on other topics.

Abstract submission guidelines:
Abstracts should be submitted via Easy Abstracts (EasyAbs) at the following conference page:

https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/SICOL-2024

Follow the online guidelines to upload your abstract in the .pdf format.

Conference website:
Please visit the following conference website to find detailed information about the conference including venue and registration:

https://lsk202324.github.io/2024_summer/index.html

Participants are asked to check this site to keep up to date regarding possible alternations and changes.

Inquiries and contact:
Please direct any questions about abstract submission and other queries about the conference to the LSK email ([email protected]) or to the program committee ([email protected]).

Important dates:
Abstract submission deadline: June 20, 2024
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2024
Conference dates: August 8-9, 2024

Organizing Committee:
Jong-Bok Kim (Chair, LSK president, Kyung Hee University)
Youngju Choi (Chosun University)
Sumi Han (Hallym University)
Chung-Hoon Lee (Sogang University)
Suk-yeong Mun (Seoul National University)
Yunju Nam (Hanyang University)
Dongwoo Park (Korea National Open University)
See-Gyoon Park (Kunsan National University)
Byong-Rae Ryu (Chungnam National University)

Program Committee:
Se-Eun Jhang (Co-chair, Korea Maritime and Ocean University)
Hanjung Lee (Co-chair, Sungkyunkwan University)
Byeongkil Ahn (Gyeongsang National University)
Kyungchul Chang (Pusan National University)
Nayoun Kim (Sungkyunkwan University)
Hansaem Kim (Yonsei University)
Eon-Suk Ko (Chosun University)
Iksoo Kwon (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Jungmee Lee (Seoul National University)
Seonmin Park (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

SICOL-2024 is hosted and organized by the LSK and the Institute for the Study of Language and Information (ISLI), Kyung Hee University, and is sponsored by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).