The Speakers

Anna-Maria De Cesare holds the Chair of Romance Linguistics (Italian and French) at the Technische Universität Dresden. She is currently also the managing director of both the Institute of Romance Studies and the Center for Italian Studies. Her research areas cover text linguistics, information structure, word classes, functional syntax, and sociolinguistics. In her current research, she analyses texts generated by large language models (LLMs), examining their characteristic linguistic and textual features. In this context, she investigates new language contact phenomena between English and Italian, while also shedding light on various forms of gender bias in AI-generated biographies. The aim of this research is to deepen our understanding of human-authored texts and their distinguishing features from AI-generated texts.

Mlada Kimto est doctorante en linguistique anglaise à l'Université de Lorraine et est affiliée au laboratoire IDEA. 

Etant bilingue, elle a depuis toujours porté un intérêt particulier aux langues en les observant, en les écoutant et en les comparant. Cet intérêt là amenée à faire une double licence  allemand-anglais ainsi qu'un double master allemand-anglais en se spécialisant dans la  linguistique. 

Pour sa recherche de thèse, Mlada Kimto a décidé d'explorer la notion de l' authenticité à travers une analyse sur les plans pragmatique et phonétique de la production orale des locuteurs de langue seconde en contexte émotionnel. 

Cette recherche lui permet de travailler à l'interface interlangue (anglais-français) mais aussi intralangue, ainsi que d'intégrer des approches issues de la psycholinguistique et des sciences cognitives.

Sophia Burnett is a post-doctoral teaching and research fellow at the Université de Lorraine, affiliated with the IDEA research centre in Nancy. Her research focuses on anthropological and cognitive linguistics, notably intersections of morphosyntax, graphophonology, semiotics, and embodiment. She holds a PhD in language sciences from CY Cergy Paris, and is an associate member of the AGORA research centre. She has presented first-authored papers at ILA (Rutgers) NWAV (Queens), HisPhonCog (Hanyang), LingColl (Zurich), and several other peer-reviewed international conferences. With Anna Cardinaletti, she is developing an EU proposal in Embodied Syntax and Intersubjectivity in Multilingual Ecologies. Since 2024 she leads the Human Inside project, a multilingual open science project that analyses hybrid human/LLM productions to better understand humans' writing strategies. Personal site.

Johannes Angermuller is Professor of Discourse, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Open University. Until 2019, he was director of a ERC research groups at Warwick University and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. After obtaining a PhD at Paris Est, Créteil, and Magdeburg in 2003, he was Juniorprofessor in the sociology of higher education at Mainz University. He has published widely in the field of Discourse Studies. His publications include Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. Subjectivity in Enunciative Pragmatics (Palgrave Macmillan: Houndmills, Basingstoke, 2014) and Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France. The Making of an Intellectual Generation (Bloomsbury: London, 2015), which have been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish. His latest book Careers of the Professoriate (2013) compares careers of linguists and sociologists. It was authored with Philippe Blanchard.

I'm a researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. I'm affiliated with the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS) and Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS). My book, titled Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI (preorder on Amazon or Barnes & Noble), will be published in 2025 by the University of Michigan Press, with Chinese and Slovenian translations to follow. The book presents my research program on how the study of fiction and the humanities can contribute to the development of technologies. It focuses on the history and future of AI-based language technologies - ranging from chatbots, virtual assistants, social robots, to neurotech and large language models - and draws parallels with both canonical and lesser-known science fiction texts and films. I am also editing a volume of essays by professional writers on how the entry of AI into this space has changed reading and writing, titled First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing.