The annu­al con­fer­ence of the GAL (Gesell­schaft für Ange­wandte Lin­guistik) will take place at TU Dresden from Septem­ber 11–13. The 15 sec­tions of the GAL will each dis­cuss and con­tin­ue their top­ics and cur­rent issues togeth­er and give lin­guists an insight into their research. Thus, with­in the large annu­al con­fer­ence, 15 indi­vidu­al sec­tion meet­ings will take place, between which par­ti­cipants can eas­ily switch thanks to a well thought-out con­fer­ence pro­gram.

We at the RHET AI Cen­ter are delighted to be rep­res­en­ted at the con­fer­ence sev­er­al times. On Septem­ber 12, Pat­riz­ia Attar will give a present­a­tion with­in the sec­tion Inter­cul­tur­al Com­mu­nic­a­tion and Mul­ti­lin­gual Dis­courses (Room ABS/0214, 4–5:30 pm). "Wis­sen über KI, Wis­sen über AI in der Wiki­pe­dia – eine kul­tur­l­in­guistische Ana­lyse" is the title. With­in the lec­ture, Pat­riz­ia Attar will exam­ine the Ger­man and Eng­lish dis­cus­sion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence in Wiki­pe­dia art­icles and would like to work out the lin­guist­ic means by which know­ledge about AI is lin­guist­ic­ally pro­duced in cul­tur­ally spe­cif­ic contexts.

In addi­tion, the new research focus "Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence" of the GAL — co-foun­ded by us and in par­tic­u­lar Nina Kal­wa from Unit 1 — will be presen­ted. In a poster present­a­tion, Monika Hanaus­ka and Pat­riz­ia Attar explain the con­tent and goals of the research focus, which is ded­ic­ated to the influ­ence of AI pro­cesses on lan­guage and the influ­ence of lan­guage on AI pro­cesses and will work with a wide vari­ety of lin­guist­ic sub-dis­cip­lines. We are excited about the work and insights that will emerge from the research focus. The poster present­a­tions will take place on Thursday, Septem­ber 12th from 10:15 to 11 am and again from 3:15 to 4 pm. You can find more inform­a­tion on the GAL research focus "Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence" in our art­icle on the present­a­tion of the research focus.