JWLLP-34 (2025/09) + NextEdu-207

JWLLP-34 (2025/09): The 34th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing
in part concurrently with
NextEdu-207: The 207th meeting of Association for Next-Generation Higher Education

Announcements

Dates and Venue

dates: September 5th Friday afternoon through 7th Sunday morning, 2025
main venue: Port Island Campus (KPC1) of Kobe Gakuin University
Minatojima 1-1-3, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-8586, JAPAN
〒650-8586 兵庫県神戸市中央区港島 1-1-3

details of workshop venues (in JST=UTC+9) [subject to change]

day one:
2025/09/05
Friday

14:00-18:00

Meeting Room 1, Anchor Kobe アンカー神戸
15th floor, Kobe-Sannomiya Hankyu Building, Kano-cho 4-2-1, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture 650-0001
〒650-0001 兵庫県神戸市中央区加納町４丁目２-１
神戸三宮阪急ビル 15階

day two:
2025/09/06
Saturday

10:00-12:10	D303 Computer Classroom on 3rd floor of building D, KPC1, Kobe Gakuin University Minatojima 1-1-3, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture 650-8586, JAPAN 〒650-8586 兵庫県神戸市中央区港島 1-1-3
12:10-13:40	Lunch at Joli Port Cafe & restaurant at Kobe Gakuin University, Port Island Campus Kobe Gakuin University Port Island Campus B Building 1F 神戸学院大学内レストラン　ジョリポー神戸学院大学ポートアイランドキャンパスB号館1F
13:40-18:00	D303 Computer Classroom on 3rd floor of building D, KPC1, Kobe Gakuin University Minatojima 1-1-3, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture 650-8586, JAPAN 〒650-8586 兵庫県神戸市中央区港島 1-1-3

day three:
2025/09/07
Sunday

10:00-13:00

Meeting 1 and Meeting 2, Kobe Co-Creation Center
一般社団法人大学都市神戸産官学プラットフォーム
9th floor, Center Plaza, Sannomiya-cho 1-9-1, Chuo-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture 650-0021
〒650-0021　兵庫県神戸市中央区三宮町1丁目9番1号　センタープラザ9階

NextEdu-207 : The 207th meeting of Association for Next-Generation Higher Education

NextEdu-207 is the 207th installment of research meetings planned and organized under the auspices of Association for Next-Generation Higher Education.
Jointly hosted by:
- Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University
- Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
Co-sponsored by:
- ABCJ: Association for Business Communication in Japan
Organizing Committee:
- Yasushi Tsubota: Organizing Chair
- Miwa Morishita: Local Organizing Chair
- Yasunari Harada: Executive Organizing Chair

JWLLP-34 (2025/09): The 34th Joint Workshop on Linguistics and Language Processing

JWLLP-34 (2025/09) is the 34th installment of JWLLP, organized under the auspices of JWLLP Steering Committee.
- http://www.decode.waseda.ac.jp/jwllp/
Topics include but are not limited to:
- theoretical analysis of linguistic data
- natural language and speech processing by computing machinery
- human sentence processing and brain imaging studies
- language aquisition and language learning
- computational psycolinguistics
- computational modeling of learner languages and language learning
- large language models and generative AI
- learner corpora and learning data
- interactions with linguistic and semiotic landscapes
Jointly hosted by:
- Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Waseda University
- Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University
Co-sponsored by:
- JELES: The English Language Education Society of Japan
- JASLLI: Japanese Association for the Study of Logic, Language and Information (formerly known as Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan)
partially supported by:
- JSPS KAKEN Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) #23K00516
  Effectiveness of English Learning Environment for Improved Generative Fluency through Acquisition and Learning of Collocation
  PI: Miwa Morishita Project Period (FY): 2023-04-01 ? 2026-03-31
  https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23K00516/
Organizing Committee:
- Yasunari Harada: Honorary Organizing Chair
- Akira Morita: Organizing Chair
- Ryo Otoguro: Organizing Co-Chair
- Miwa Morishita: Local Organizing Chair
- Yasushi Tsubota: Local Organizing Co-Chair
- Emmanuele Chersoni: Remote Local Organizer

workshop program outline (in JST=UTC+9) [subject to change]

day one:
2025/09/05
Friday
JWLLP-34
Concurrently
with
NextEdu-207

14:00-14:10	preparations and registration
14:10-14:15	opening remarks for NextEdu-207 Yasunari Harada
14:15-14:45	Exploring Diverse Instructional Designs for Developing Non-Cognitive Skills Eriko Uematsu
14:45-15:15	LOGIGLISH: A new approach to concurrently acquire critical thinking and English fluency Kaho Fujikawa
15:15-15:45	Redefining Critical Thinking in English Education Yuya Akatsuka
15:45-15:55	break and registration
15:55-16:05	opening remarks for JWLLP-34 Chu-Ren Huang and Yasunari Harada
16:05-16:40	[Featured Talk] LLM, GenAI and Autonomous Mutual Learning of English Miwa Morishita, Yasunari Harada and Jason S. Chang
16:40-17:15	Does 'All' Mean 'Every'? Exploring Scope Preferences of Universal Quantifiers in Italian and Mandarin Chinese Lavinia Salicchi and Yu-Yin Hsu
17:15-17:50	Investigating the Representation of Semantic Relations of Chinese Noun-Noun Compound in Transformer-based Language Models He Zhou, Emmanuele Chersoni and Yu-Yin Hsu

day two:
2025/09/06
Saturday
JWLLP-34

10:10-10:30	preparations and registration
10:30-11:30	[Invited Talk on line] Revisiting the Complementizer 'that' in the Age of AI Xian Wang
11:30-12:10	[Featured Talk] AI-aid for Japanese Justice and Legal systems Hiroaki Yamada
12:10-13:40	lunch at Joli Port
13:40-14:40	[Invited Talk] From Sensory Modalities to Embodied Cognition: Sensory Lexicon and Corpus-Driven Studies Chu-Ren Huang
14:40-15:40	[Invited Talk] Linking Language Development Research to Broader Language Sciences Reiko Mazuka
15:40-15:50	break
15:50-16:50	[Invited Talk] On the uses of multiple wh-questions in discourse: A big data-driven approach Jong-Bok Kim
16:50-17:50	[Invited Talk] Over-counting of number of times?: The vague image of modifying construction in Japanese and Taiwan Mandarin Toshiyuki Sadanobu and Ya-Yun Cheng

day three:
2025/09/07
Sunday
JWLLP-34

10:00-10:15	preparations and registration
10:15-10:50	Can GPT-4 Grasp Metaphors in Political Discourse? A Case Study on ELECTION Metaphors Jing Chen, Winnie Zeng, Emmanuele Chersoni, Kathleen Ahrens & Chu-Ren Huang
10:50-11:25	On the encoding of verb aspect in language models Yuxi Li, Emmanuele Chersoni and Yu-Yin Hsu
11:25-12:25	[Invited Talk] Across-Brain Networks Revealed Through Face-to-Face Social Interactions Using Hyperscanning fMRI: Eye Contact, Joint Attention, and Goal-Directed Conversation Norihiro Sadato
12:25-12:35	closing remarks for JWLLP-34 Chu-Ren Huang, Jong-Bok Kim and Yasunari Harada

notices

First drafted September 8th, 2015. Last revised August 11h, 2025.
The meeting and talks announced in this web page are subject to change without prior notice. The organizers should not be held responsible for any purported or actual damages by prospective participants due to those changes.