Workshop at the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: The Language of Food in Asia
Short Title: PACLIC39
Theme: Exploring the Intersection of Language and Culinary Culture

Date: 05-Dec-2025 - 07-Dec-2025
Location: Hanoi, Viet Nam
Contact: KHU ISLI
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://vlsp.org.vn/paclic2025/workshops

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Lexicography; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 19-Oct-2025

We are happy to announce a new workshop dedicated to the interplay between language and food in Asia. This workshop invites any research exploring the role of language in shaping our culinary and cultural experiences and how the food culture permeates linguistic practices.

The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
- Food and sensory lexicon
- Food wanderwort,
- Food and Metaphor
- Food and Neologism
- Emotion analysis of food narratives
- Menu Language
- Recipe Language
- FinNLP with focus on the Food industry, Dining Discourse, Language and Food in LLM

Abstracts: Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words including examples. Submissions should be in PDF format and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact information.

Submission Deadline: Oct 19, 2025.
Notification of Acceptance: Oct 31, 2025
Workshop Date: December 4 (Thursday)

Send the abstract to [email protected] with the title “Abstract for Language and Food Workshop”.

Join us in exploring the flavorful world of language and food and contribute to a dialogue to deepen our mutual understanding and appreciation in our multicultural and multilingual world We look forward to your submissions and to a stimulating exchange of ideas.

For any inquiries, please contact:
[email protected]