5 November 2020, Mini-symposium on Meaning Variation in Social Contexts

On the occasion of the PhD defense of Marco Del Tredici, we are organising an online mini-symposium on meaning variation in social contexts with talks by Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University), Katia Shutova (University of Amsterdam), Katrin Erk (University of Texas at Austin), and Mario Giulianelli (University of Amsterdam). Everybody is welcome to join. You can find more information, including abstracts, on the website of the Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS). Zoom details will be distributed via the CLS mailing list shortly before the event.
Marco’s PhD thesis "Linguistic Variation in Online Communities: A Computational Perspective” will be defended on Friday the 6th of November at 16:00 and the public ceremony will be live-streamed via YouTube. Contact Marco at marcodeltredici at gmail.com for more details if you are interested in attending.