Dear interested persons, We are delighted to invite you to the international workshop:*Technolinguistics in Practice: Socially Situating Language in AI Systems * *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... <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/*technolinguistics-in-practice-socially-situating-language-in-ai-systems__;Iw!!BuQPrrmRaQ!jiZSeTQO_TbR53Y083hOzxg_skIuPqsE2bw_627QfcITIkYAlwlUkNOJYB0OK6sQ7bTioFzoHI1HzRr7Z81PUCUP1R8LlyBxjR7MzbbD$> *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 technoliguistics@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de Conference Website https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veranstaltungen/technolinguistics-in-... <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/veranstaltungen/technolinguistics-in-practice/__;!!BuQPrrmRaQ!jiZSeTQO_TbR53Y083hOzxg_skIuPqsE2bw_627QfcITIkYAlwlUkNOJYB0OK6sQ7bTioFzoHI1HzRr7Z81PUCUP1R8LlyBxjdFd3pbd$> Location Campus Unteres Schloss Building C, Room 109 Unteres Schloss 3 57072 Siegen The conference is funded by the DFG – German Research Foundation.