LangCog 2025

Taiwan-Czech Workshop on Language & Cognition
22 April 2025
NTU, Taipei, Taiwan

About LangCog

Language encodes more than just words — it carries identity, structure, and intention. Highlighting cross-disciplinary perspectives, the Taiwan-Czech Workshop on Language & Cognition (LangCog 2025) provides a platform for researchers and students to present their work on how language functions across cultural, poetic, grammatical, and computational domains. From code-mixed poetry and Chinese classifiers to narrative perspective and AI misclassifications, we explore the multilayered ways in which language interacts with cognition.

Program

Online Participation

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15:00 - 15:10

Opening Remarks

Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University

15:10 - 15:40

Keynote

Narrative Viewpoint in Language: A Multiple-Parallel-Text Approach
Wei-lun Lu, Masaryk University

15:40 - 16:20

Student Presentation 1

Classifiers for Books: Case of Near-Synonymy of Classifiers 本 běn and 册 cè
Emma Františáková, Masaryk University
Chinese Language in Chinese Diaspora Author Nina Mingya Powles’ English-Written Poetry
Klára Šílová, Masaryk University

16:20 - 16:40

Coffee Break

16:40 - 17:40

Student Presentation 2

Predicting East Coast or West Coast from Rap Lyrics
Hsin-Pin Lin, National Chengchi University
Addressing GPT’s Limitations in Advertorial Detection
Chih-Fen Chang, Li-Xuan Wang, National Chengchi University
Meaning in Motion: Diachronic Sense Competition and Cooperation in Embedding Space
Wei-Ling Chen, Deborah Wetty, Micah Kitsunai, National Taiwan University

17:40 - 18:00

Panel Discussion

Wei-lun Lu, Masaryk University
Shu-Kai Hsieh, National Taiwan University
Chia-Rung Lu, National Taiwan University
Yu-Yun Chang, National Chengchi University

Venue

Room 337, Humanities Building 3F, National Taiwan University

LangCog 2025 is hosted by the Graduate Institute of Linguistics at National Taiwan University (NTU), a key hub for linguistic research and interdisciplinary collaboration within the College of Liberal Arts. The newly opened Humanities Building, home to several departments and institutes, provides a shared space that fosters academic exchange and enriches engagement across the humanities.

Organizers



Graduate Institute of Linguistics


College of Liberal Arts
National Taiwan University

Co-Organizers



National Chengchi University


Masaryk University
Supported by the UAAT-ICU Program
國家重點領域國際合作聯盟（UAAT）與捷克大學聯盟（ICU）
人文藝術及社會科學領域國際合作與人才培育計畫