Balthasar Bickel to give keynote lecture at MEDAL conference in Tartu, Estonia
Balthasar Bickel will present a keynote lecture entitled "Integrating phylogenetic, typological, and neurobiological perspectives on language" at the Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches’ (MEDAL) conference (9 - 10 October 2025) in Tartu, Estonia.
This conference marks the culmination of the three-year international consortium project – MEDAL. Motivation for both the MEDAL project and this conference stems from the enormous advances made in linguistics through becoming a more empirically based discipline. This has been made possible through the development of increasingly sophisticated methods, improved accessibility of resources and shared findings. Research using corpus linguistics, experimental linguistics, and computational modelling has furthered our understanding of language use, acquisition and processing.
The final conference will showcase the diversity of research that has benefitted from the training and mentoring opportunities in MEDAL and bring together researchers from beyond the consortium interested in advancing discussion about methods and results in data-driven linguistics.