You are cordially invited to the annual International Meeting of Young Linguists called

THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE: HUMAN AND AI IN DIALOGUE?

The conference tradition began in 2000 at the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and has continued at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc since 2001.

Main topics of the conference:

  • AI as a tool, an assistant, a threat: linguistic representations of artificial intelligence.
  • AI in various linguistic and related fields, in scientific production, and in journalism.
  • The future of linguistic diversity: promotion or decline of smaller languages?
  • Ethical aspects of AI (censorship, manipulation, disinformation, plagiarism, reliability of sources, etc.).
  • The boundaries of comprehension: how technology transforms intercultural communication?
  • How is AI affecting language production and creativity, how is it transforming linguistics?
  • The role of AI in language education.
  • Machine translation: benefits and limitations.
  • Corpus linguistics and automated data analysis.
  • Natural language understanding and generation (NLU and NLG).
  • “Summarise this in 50 words”: automated text summarisation.
  • Sociolinguistics and AI: my chatbot/voicebot friend.
Mezinárodní setkání mladých lingvistů

They wrote about us:

Time and place:

12–13 May 2025

Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc
Křížkovského 10, 771 80 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Who can participate?

As Speaker, anyone who:
a) is interested in language, speech, text, and communication,
b) wishes to discuss and listen to others,
c) has completed an M.A./Mgr. programme and has no higher degree than PhD.

As Visitor, anyone who:
meets the criteria under (a) and (b).

Who are the organizers?

Department of Czech Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc, affiliated to the Linguistic Association of the Czech Republic, Prague.

Contact:

mladi.lingviste@upol.cz

What are the conference languages?

Czech, Slovak, English

What are the topics to be discussed?

Plenary lecture:

To be announced

Main programme:

  • papers on the main and/or related topics

Panel sessions and Workshops

organized as round table sessions with a discussion panel:

Diachronic Workshop – Robert Dittmann

Linguistic Creativity – Jiří Mánek

Czech as a Foreign Language – Michaela Kopečková & Ondřej Geppert

Field Research in Linguistics – Filip Kubeček & Radek Šuta

Programme:

  • Show conference programme (from May 7)

Book of Abstracts:

  • Show Book of Abstracts (from May 7)

The conference hosts the 14th National Competition for undergraduate students (students of MA/Mgr. and BA/Bc. programmes) STUDENT AND SCIENCE: Linguistics. 

Call for papers:

  • registration form
  • abstract submission + standard registration deadline is 20 April 2025 – extended!
  • notification of acceptance by 27 April 2025

Fees and payments:

  • the conference fee is:
    • Ph.D. students EUR 25 / CZK 650
    • other researchers EUR 40 / CZK 950 
  • the conference fee should be paid to the conference bank account before 7 May 2025 (see instructions below)

Important information to make your payment:

  • Account number (IBAN): CZ9801000000433855090287
  • Variable symbol: 99215061
  • SWIFT code: KOMBCZPPxxx

Contact:

Božena Bednaříková
Michaela Kopečková

Katedra bohemistiky (Department of Czech language)
Filozofická fakulta (Faculty of Arts)
Univerzita Palackého (Palacký University)
Křížkovského 10
771 47 Olomouc

Tel.:  00420 585 633 145
e-mail: mladi.lingviste@upol.cz

Board of reviewers:

  • doc. Samuel Henri Bidaud, Ph.D. (FF UP Olomouc)
  • doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozděchová, CSc. (FF UK Praha)
  • prof. PhDr. Jana Hoffmannová, DrSc. (ÚJČ AV ČR)
  • doc. PhDr. Eva Höflerová, Ph.D. (OSU Ostrava)
  • doc. PhDr. Eva Jandová, Ph.D. (FF OU Ostrava)
  • doc. PhDr. Karel Komárek, Ph.D. (FF UP Olomouc)
  • prof. Dr. habil. Peter Kosta (University of Potsdam)
  • prof. Melissa Shih-hui Lin (National Chengchi University, Taipei)
  • prof. PhDr. Petr Mareš, CSc. (FF UK Praha)
  • prof. Mgr. Martin Ološtiak, Ph.D. (FF PU, Prešov)
  • doc. RNDr. Vladimír Petkevič, CSc. (FF UK Praha)
  • prof. PhDr. Libuše Spáčilová, Dr. (FF UP Olomouc)
  • doc. Mgr. Jana Šnytová, Ph.D. (University of Ljubljana)
  • prof. PhDr. Pavol Štekauer, CSc. (UPJS Košice)
  • prof. PhDr. Jarmila Tárnyiková, CSc. (FF UP Olomouc)
  • doc. Mgr. Silvie Válková, Ph.D. (FF UP)
  • doc. PhDr. Zdeňka Vychodilová, CSc. (FF UP Olomouc)
  • prof. Mgr. Lic. Lenka Zajícová, Ph.D. (FF UP Olomouc)

Contribution in Bohemica Olomucensia

Contributions from this year’s conference will be published in the professional peer-reviewed journal Bohemica Olomucensia – for more information, please visit: https://bohemica.upol.cz/
Submissions should be sent by March 1, 2026.
Submissions are also welcome from participants of Student and Science.

 

Important dates:

  • 20 April 2025: deadline for abstract submission and standard registration
  • 27 April 2025: notification of acceptance
  • 7 May 2025: conference programme
  • 7 May 2025: fee payment deadline
  • 12–13 May 2025: conference venue

Board of organizers:

  • Božena Bednaříková (co-chair of the board of organizers)
  • Markéta Dančová
  • Ondřej Geppert
  • Michaela Kopečková (chair of the board of organizers)
  • Filip Kubeček
  • David Lavička
  • Jiří Mánek
  • Yuliia Mostova
  • Tereza Šmigurová
  • Radek Šuta