The ExQuaCCo thematic school aims to bring together formal linguists, experimental linguists, field linguists and computational linguists in order to develop synergies between the four communities and promote the dissemination of their results. The programme offers workshops to discover and learn new methodologies in quantitative analysis, experimental research, corpus annotation, natural language processing and data collection, as well as new approaches to morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse.

The ExQuaCCo school is suitable for researchers at all levels, including doctoral students and engineers (IR, IE). The courses will focus on:

•     the acquisition of methodological skills (using machine learning methods on large, small corpora and under-resourced languages, setting up an experimental protocol to test hypotheses),
•     the application of methods in different areas of linguistics (morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics), 
•     the empirical diversity of languages (this year, Siouan languages of America).

The ExQuaCCo school is jointly organised by two recurrent CNRS schools: ExpGram (last edition in June 2024 in Porqueroles) and AnnoDemo (last edition in June 2024 in Banyuls-sur-mer). It draws on the main linguistic research groups that structure and drive the national linguistic research landscape:

• the national thematic network GDR LIFT2 on Computational, Formal and Field Linguistics,
• the national thematic network GDR TAL on natural language processing,
• the inldEx EFL on Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
• the HumaNum CORLI consortium on data collection, annotation and dissemination

The 2026 edition of the ExQuaCCo school will take place in Fréjus, at the Villa Clythia. All participants and organisers will be accommodated on site to facilitate informal discussions. The site is accessible by train from many major cities in France.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support the summer school has received from various parties: