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“Within the next 10 years, many
millions of people will be …
wearing relatively unobtrusive …
devices that offer an immersive and
high-resolution view of a visually
augmented world”
- KEN PERLIN -
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LITHME Conference 2023

The LITHME Conference brings together researchers and experts from various areas of linguistics and language technology. Watch the programme online!

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How will new technologies change the ways we use language? LITHME's open access report 'Dawn of the Human-Machine Era' offers a vision of likely near-future developments in language technology, and their societal impact.
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To find out more about the future technologies in our animations, take a look at our open access forecast report

“Within the next 10 years, many millions of people will … walk around wearing relatively unobtrusive AR devices that offer an immersive and high-resolution view of a visually augmented world”

(Perlin 2016: 85)
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What is LITHME?

LITHME is a COST Action network with members from every EU member state, plus a number of other countries outside the EU. Action chair: Dave Sayers (University of Jyväskylä).

Our aims

  1. To prepare language researchers for what is coming;
  2. 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.

Meanwhile LITHME will shine a light on the ethical implications of emerging language technologies. Inequality of access to technologies, questions of privacy and security, new vectors for deception and crime; these and other critical issues would be kept to the fore. LITHME will equip linguists and stakeholders for the human-machine era.

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