9th edition of the Study Days on Chinese Linguistics of the Associazione die Linguistica Cinese (AILC) coming up next week (June 17-18) at La Sapienza in Rome. Check out the programme/abstratcs here linguisticacinese.wixsite.com/ailc/copy-of...
CFP: Twelfth International Conference on Sino-Korean Linguistics (ICSKL), R.U. Bochum, 9-10th Oct 2026: chinesestudies.eu/2026/call-fo...
JANUS-Project Annual Conference "The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity", 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (janus-project.org/events/confe...), online participation link: forms.gle/ByBnjbLMeof8...
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2026 “The Global Rhetoric of Antiquity” 18–19 June 2026, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford This year, the Janus Project conference welcomes papers exploring the roles, imagin…
Ambitious article on "The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage" by KKL Wong et al. in npj Herit. Sci. (2026), doi.org/10.1038/s404.... In the syntactic/semantic task, performance of all tested (1/2)
npj Heritage Science - The warring states linguistic benchmark for hierarchical multimodal reasoning in digital heritage
LLMs "declines sharply for modal particles and function words whose meanings depend heavily on discourse-level context or manuscript-specific philosophical styles", often down to 50%. Not sure, whether this is bad or good news for us non-artificial readers at this point... (2/2)
2026 Berggruen essay competition announced: This year's theme "A new axial age?" (submit by August 17th, 2026): tinyurl.com/wmw7uf27
