Call for papers

COLDOC 2026 – Doctoral and Young Researchers

MoDyCo UMR 7114 CNRS | Université Paris Nanterre

Novembre 9th and 10 th 2026

« Interfaces and Interactions： Dialogues across Levels of Analysis, Linguistic Objects, Disciplinary Frameworks and Technologies»

COLDOC is a biannual conference organized by doctoral students and early-career researchers at the MoDyCo laboratory (UMR 7114 – CNRS/Université Paris Nanterre). This year's edition will be held on November 9th and 10th.

For its 16th edition, COLDOC centers on the interfaces and interactions that connect all areas of linguistics and natural language processing. Language is inherently an interactive phenomenon, yet the forms and frameworks through which interaction manifests have continued to diversify across disciplines, methodologies, levels of analysis, and technologies.

Linguistics today is characterized by a growing diversity of objects and methods. Discourse analysis draws on annotated corpora, language acquisition incorporates experimental protocols from cognitive science, and computational linguistics both informs and challenges theoretical models (Cartier, 2019). These disciplinary crossings are not mere borrowings: they generate new categorizations, new questions, and transform the very way we manipulate linguistic objects, particularly through modeling and formalization. It is through this interaction between disciplines that research advances.

Thematic Axes

Interaction is not limited to dialogue between disciplines. It concerns the very objects of linguistic inquiry:

Interface between levels of analysis : Interface across linguistic levels such as syntax, semantics, phonetics, and others (Hagège, 2004) ;

Social and discursive interactions : between speakers in spoken and written discourse (Charaudeau, 1984; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2005; Sacks et al., 1974);

Multimodal interactions: between modalities in multimodal communication (Mondada, 2017);

System interactions: between languages in contact situations (Matras, 2009; Thomason & Kaufman, 1988), or between formal models and real-world data;

Humain-machine interaction: within conversational interfaces and intelligent agents (Namvarpour, 2025).

At each of these levels, researchers are called upon to rethink their analytical categories and to interrogate the boundaries, sometimes blurry, sometimes productive, that separate units, levels, and domains of language (Taylor, 2003).

This conference is conceived as an opportunity to reflect on the interactions that structure, traverse, and renew research in linguistics.

Intended Audience

We invite doctoral students and early-career researchers from all specializations within the linguistic sciences, from theoretical linguistics to natural language processing, from sociolinguistics to cognitive science, to submit contributions that shed light on these dynamics. Work at any stage of advancement is welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Interactions between levels of linguistic analysis (syntax-semantics, prosody-pragmatics interfaces, etc.);
Interdisciplinary approaches and the contribution of computational methods to corpus linguistics;
The challenges of formalization and annotation in the study of interactions;
New forms of linguistic interaction shaped by technological and societal change (generative AI, social media, etc.);
Questions of categorization and classification raised by these crossings;
More broadly, any research approaching language through the lens of interaction, regardless of discipline or methodological framework.

Modalités de soumission

Doctoral students and early-career researchers wishing to participate are invited to submit a proposal of up to 2 pages (excluding bibliography) in Word format (Times New Roman, 12pt) via the submission form on the COLDOC website:

Submit a proposal

Submissions may take the form of oral presentations, posters, or demonstrations. Proposals may be submitted in French or English. All submissions must be anonymized. Please indicate whether you are submitting for an oral presentation or a poster.

Key dates:

Submission deadline: June 26th, 2026

Notification of acceptance: septembre 4th, 2026.

References

Cartier, E. (2019). Emprunts en français contemporain : Étude linguistique et statistique à partir de la plateforme Néoveille. In A. Kacprzak, R. Mudrochová, & J.-F. Sablayrolles (Éds.), L'emprunt en question(s) : Conceptions, réceptions, traitements lexicographiques. Lambert Lucas. https://hal.science/hal-02537344

Charaudeau, P. (1984). L'interlocution comme interaction de stratégies discursives. Verbum, VII(2-3).

Hagège, C. (2004). On categories, rules and interfaces in linguistics. The Linguistic Review, 21.

Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C. (2005). Le discours en interaction. Armand Colin.

Matras, Y. (2009). Language contact. Cambridge University Press.

Mondada, L. (2017). Le défi de la multimodalité en interaction. Revue française de linguistique appliquée, XXII(2), 71–87.

Namvarpour, M., & Razi, A. (2025). The art of talking machines: A comprehensive literature review of conversational user interfaces. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI '25).

Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language, 50(4), 696–735.

Taylor, J. R. (2003). Linguistic categorization (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Thomason, S. G., & Kaufman, T. (1988). Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics. University of California Press.