SCiL is co-located with ACL as a workshop this year: we're welcoming ACL authors of papers with strong linguistic relevance to join us for an additional non-archival poster presentation to share their work with the linguistically-minded SCiL audience. If this is you, consider submitting here!
The Society for Computation in Linguistics (websites.umass.edu/scil/) is now nine years running focusing on computational and mathematical approaches in any area of linguistics. Our 2026 edition will be very exciting including talks from Noah Smith and Jenn Hu - we hope you'll join us!
After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Very excited this work is out, many great chapters including a version of the fantastic MA thesis work of my former student Michael Senko (msenko1.github.io)!
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.