Language In The Human-Machine Era, COST action.
| Programmee: | International Collaboration |
| Code: | CA19102 |
| Execution period: | 2020 – 2023 |
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| Participants: | Cojocaru Svetlana, Petic Mircea |
Summary
The action has two aims: to prepare linguistics and its subdisciplines for what is coming; and to facilitate longer term dialogue between linguists and technology developers. How will pervasive augmentation technology affect language in areas such as international law, translation, and other forms of language work? What will this mean for how people identify with specific languages? Could increasing reliance on real-time language technologies actually change the structure of language? Longer term, could developments in brain-machine interfaces serve to complement or even supersede language altogether? Linguistics will be far stronger for robust technological foresight, while developers will benefit from better understanding potential linguistic and societal consequences of their creations.
