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SUMMARY:Workshop ‘Bilingual language processing: Bridging human and artificial cognition’ (BiLaP 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Background\nThe study of how the human brain manages and uses multiple languages has been a central topic in cognition, psychology, and psycholinguistics for decades. Different aspects of how bilinguals activate and control their different languages, which cognitive skills are enhanced during this mental juggling, and what are the limits to the processes of language switching and mixing are a few of the topics that have been at the forefront of such research (Blanco-Elorrieta & Pylkkänen 2017, Parafita Couto et al. 2021). With the recent advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been a renewed interest in these processes and their possibly different manifestations in humans vs. models. In BiLaP 2026, we underscore the need to study bilingual language processing through testing diverse languages but also closely related ones in order to understand whether there are language family proxies in Artificial Intelligence (e.g., transfer from a bigger language to all smaller languages within a language family/branch).\nSome of the guiding questions of this workshop are: What are the limits of code-switching in humans? What are the limits of code-switching in LLMs? Are there language-specific neurons or ‘storage rooms’ in LLMs such that languages are kept separately (Cao et al. 2024, Tang et al. 2024)? How does this picture from models compare to the bilingual human brain? How do bilingual humans differ from bilingual LLMs when it comes to linguistic tasks? How do LLMs perform linguistically in languages other than English? Do they have a default language for thought (Etxaniz et al. 2024)?\nThese are some of the topics that will be covered in BiLaP. Research on regional, non-standard, and/or minority languages pertaining to either human cognition or to artificial language processing is especially welcome.\nCheck the program here:\nFull program\n\nReferences\n\nBlanco-Elorrieta, E. & Pylkkänen, L. (2017). Bilingual language switching in the lab vs. in the wild: The spatio-temporal dynamics of adaptive language control. The Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 9022–9036.\nCao, P. et al. (2024). One mind, many tongues: A deep dive into language-agnostic knowledge neurons in Large Language Models. arXiv:2411.1740.\nEtxaniz, J. et al. (2024). Do multilingual Language Models think better in English? Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)\nParafita Couto, M. C., Romeli, M. G. & Bellamy, K. (2021). Code-switching at the interface between language, culture, and cognition, Lapurdum: Basque Studies Review.\nTang, T. et al. (2024). Language-specific neurons: The key to multilingual capabilities in Large Language Models. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics.\n\n \nHow to participate:\nA 2-page abstract (including references, tables, and figures) should be submitted via EasyChair.\nSubmit here\nImportant dates:\nDeadline for submission: 9 January 2026\nNotification: 23 January 2026\nInvited Speakers\nEsti Blanco-Elorrieta\nJon Andoni Duñabeitia\nCarmen Parafita-Couto\nEarly Career Invited Speakers\nJulen Etxaniz\nCamilla Masullo\nArrate Isasi-Isasmendi\nOrganizing Committee\nUrtzi Etxeberria, CNRS-IKER\nEvelina Leivada, UAB/ICREA\nTamara Serrano, UAB\nNina van der Linde, UAB\nPaolo Morosi, UAB\nNatalia Moskvina, UAB\nRaquel Montero, UAB\nNikoleta Pantelidou, UAB\nGuillermo Fontanals, UAB\n
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