CfA - Rethinking AI at the Linguistics-Translation Studies Interface

Léa Huotari (University of Turku), Mairi McLaughlin (University of California, Berkeley) and Franz Meier (Dresden University of Technology)

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of the journal AI Linguistica. The aim of the special issue is to show what scholarship at the boundary of Linguistics and Translation Studies has to offer to our understanding of generative Artificial Intelligence (henceforth AI).

The history of scholarship at the boundary of Linguistics and Translation Studies is not linear. There was considerable overlap between the two disciplines in the mid-twentieth century but as Translation Studies became institutionalized as an autonomous discipline in the final decades of the twentieth century, the two fields grew further apart. In recent years both Translation Studies and Linguistics have undergone rapid and extensive change. Among other things, scholars in both disciplines must now grapple with the many and complex implications of rapidly changing AI technologies. We believe that these developments bring new impetus to work at the boundary of Linguistics and Translation Studies. New tools, methods, models, and theories can be drawn upon to address new questions at the interface of these two core language disciplines.

We welcome proposals for papers examining different facets of AI from the Linguistics-Translation Studies interface. These include, but are not limited to, comparing human and AI textual outputs, exploring the use of AI in translation quality assessment, and using AI in the language and/or translation classroom. Papers can focus on different linguistic levels and textual dimensions (lexemes/technical terms, phrasemes, grammatical structures, syntactic patterns, discourse traditions, textual conventions etc.) and there is no requirement to work on any specific language pair. However, since a large proportion of existing research on AI in both Linguistics and Translation Studies is based on OpenAI’s GPT models, we encourage submissions that also draw on other models such as Claude, Falcon, Le Chat, or Teuken 7B.

Please submit abstracts for a Short Paper (3,000 to 6,000 words) or a Full-Length Article (8,000 to 15,000 words) to Léa Huotari (), Mairi McLaughlin (), and Franz Meier () by 30^th January 2026. The abstract should be written in English and not exceed 500 words in length, inclusive of references. Further information about the journal and reference style can be found in the Instructions for Authors.

Authors will be informed whether their paper was accepted by February 15^th 2026 and the final article should be submitted by 30^th August 2026. The special issue will be published in December 2026.