@inproceedings{schneider-anastasopoulos-2026-speaking,
    title = "Speaking of Language: Reflections on Metalanguage Research in {NLP}",
    author = "Schneider, Nathan  and
      Anastasopoulos, Antonios",
    editor = "Elazar, Yanai  and
      Ettinger, Allyson  and
      Kassner, Nora  and
      Ruder, Sebastian",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of The Big Picture v2: Crafting a Research Narrative",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.bigpicture-main.9/",
    pages = "107--118",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-416-3",
    abstract = "This work aims to shine a spotlight on the topic of metalanguage. We first define metalanguage, link it to NLP and LLMs, and then discuss our two labs' metalanguage-centered efforts. Finally, we discuss four dimensions of metalanguage and metalinguistic tasks, offering a list of understudied future research directions."
}