Conferences and Workshops

• Visualizing the Verbal: Seeing Language Diversity Session at 2015 Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science. John Nerbonne, Session Convenor.
• Methods in Dialectology XV, Groningen, Aug.11-15, 2014. With invited speakers:
  • Jacob Eisenstein, Georgia Tech;
  • Frans Gregersen, Copenhagen;
  • Mark Liberman, Pennsylvania;
  • Naomi Nagy, Toronto; and
  • Brigitte Pakendorf, Lyon.
• Language Diversity Computational Issues in Language Diversity: Storage, Analysis and Inference. Sponsored by the KNAW, July 18-20, 2013.
  Program booklet available here.
  With Sjef Barbiers, Lars Borin, Michael Dunn, Jacob Eisenstein, Simon Greenhill, Hannah Haynie, Gerhard Jäger, Bernd Kortmann, Mark Liberman, Franz Manni, Steve Moran, John Nerbonne, Jan Odijk, Wido van Peursen, Jelena Prokić, Stephen Shennan, Arie Verhagen, Søren Wichman, & Martijn Wieling.
  Posters by Damian Blasi and Steven Moran, Sebastian Drude, Wilbert Heeringan (2) (one independently and one with Charlotte Gooskens, Anja Schüppert, Femke Swarte, & Vincent van Heuven), Natasha Levshina, Franz Manni (with Roberto Rodriguez-Díaz & María José Blanco-Villegas), Marta Meneguzzo, Taraka Rama & Oskar Strik (with Remco Knooihuizen).
• Workshop on Quantitative Linguistics and Dialectology, Symposium on the Occasion of Martijn Wieling's dissertation Defense, June 29, 2012, Groningen. With
  • Jack Chambers
  • Piet van Reenen,
  • Simonetta Montemagni
  • Wilbert Heeringa
  • Roeland van Hout
  • Harald Baayen, and
  • Mark Liberman
• Modeling Language Acquisition and Evolution, Symposium on the Occasion of Çağrı Çöltekin's dissertation Defense, Dec. 8, 2011, Groningen. With talks by
  • Emanuel Dupoux,
  • Padraic Monaghan and
  • Sharon Goldwater.
• Geo-informed Dialectometry, a session at Methods in Dialectology 14, London, Ontario. Aug.2-6, 2011. Selections of the proceedings to appear in John Nerbonne and William Kretzschmar, Jr. (eds.) Dialectometry++, a special issue of LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, ca. 28(1), 2013.
• Bloomsday 2010: Echoes of Albion. English-American Speech Relations, Symposium on the Occasion of Bob Shackleton's dissertation Defense, June 16, Groningen. With talks by
  • William Kretzschmar, Jr., Georgia
  • Salikoko S. Mufwene, Chicago
  • John Nerbonne, Groningen
  • Edgar W. Schneider, Regensburg
  • Benedikt Szmrecsányi, Freiburg
  • Martijn Wieling, Groningen
    
• Computational Studies of Language Variation, a session at Methods in Dialectology 13, Leeds, UK. Aug., 2018. Selections of the proceedings appear in John Nerbonne, Charlotte Gooskens, Renée van Bezooijen, and Sebastian Kürschner (eds.) Computing and Language Variation, a special issue of International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2(1-2), 2008.
• Computing and Historical Phonology, Workshop at the ACL 2007, June 28, Prague. Organized with T. Mark Ellison and Grzegorz Kondrak. Workshop Proceedings available here.
• Workshop on Computing and Phonology, with Adam Albright, Paul Boersma, and Gerhard Jaeger, Dec. 8, 2006, Groningen.
• Linguistic Distances, Workshop at the ACL/COLING 2006, July 23, Sydney. With Erhard Hinrichs, proceedings available here.
• Theory and Evidence in Semantics, Symposium in honor of David Dowty, June, 2006. With Erhard Hinrichs, proceedings available here.
• Progress in Dialectometry: Toward Explanation. Workshop at Methods in Dialectology XII, Moncton, Canada, Aug. 2005. Proceedings in Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2006.
• Computational Techniques in Dialectometry, Proceedings in Computers and the Humanities, 37(3), 2003.
• Languages in Contact (1999). Organized with Dicky Gilbers and Jos Schaeken. Proc. avail from Rodopi
• Language Teaching and Language Technology (1997)
  Proceedings available from Swets and Zeitlinger. Table of Contents here.
• Linguistics Databases, (1998) Lecture Notes 77, CSLI Publications.