The Conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTaDH-RA) will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 25-26 June 2026. The programme is now available.
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
Sofia University
Sofia, Bulgaria
25-26 June 2026
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First day: 25. 06. 2026 (Thursday)
Venue: Mirror Hall at the Sofia University (15 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria)
08:30 – 11:00 Registration
Session 01 (Chair: Petya Osenova)
09:15 – 09:30 Opening
09:30 – 10:30 Invited talk: Erhard Hinrichs: The Added Value of LLMs for Lexicography.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session 02 (Chair: Kiril Simov)
11:00 – 11:30 Mario Filipov, Yordana Nikolova: Stories behind the Facades: The Homes of the Doctors of Sofia.
11:30 – 12:00 Emanuela Mitreva, Maxim Goynov, Desislava Paneva-Marinova. Towards Intelligent Content Discovery in Digital Libraries.
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
Session 03 (Chair: Ivan Georgiev)
14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk: Ivaylo Nachev: Resources and Approaches for 3D Modelling of Disappeared Cityscapes: The Case of Sofia before World War II.
15:00 – 15:30 Yana Yancheva: The “Our Childhood” website: Biographical Database
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session 04 (Chair: Desislava Paneva-Marinova)
16:00 – 16:30 Nikolay Paev, Stefan Marinov, Kiril Simov. Entity Linking to Wikipedia Entities: Casing Bulgarian.
16:30 – 17:00 Kiril Simov, Nikolay Paev, Petya Osenova, Teodor Valchev, Stefan Marinov. Small Can Be Beautiful in LLMs for SSH: a Case for Bulgarian – Updated.
17:00 – 17:30 Georgi Evtimov, Pavel Georgiev, Diana Mihaylova, Ivan Georgiev, Georgi Tomov, Dimitar Popov, 3D Documentation of Architectural Plan – A Multimodal Approach of the “All Saints” Church, Village of Ochusha, Bulgaria
17:30 – 18:00 Svitlana Matvieieva. A Ukrainian-English Parallel Corpus of Public Safety Communication: Design, Alignment, and Research Potential.
Dinner 18:30 – details will be announced at the conference
Second day: 26. 06. 2026 (Friday)
Venue:”The Egg” Hall at the Sofia University (15 Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, Sofia, Bulgaria)
Session 05 (Chair: Miglena Raykovska)
09:00 – 09:30 Stamatia Fotiadou. Urban History and Digital Storytelling: An Interactive Approach to Representing Local Heritage in Greece and Bulgaria.
09:30 – 10:00 Elya Tsaneva. CLADA-BG in Support of Publication Efforts in Archival Ethnographic Documentation.
10:00 – 10:30 Diana Mihaylova, Nikolay Petkov, Valentin Petkov, M. Hristova, K. Vasilev , Ivan Vladov, Ivan Georgiev, 150 Years of the April Uprising: An Immersive 360-degree Virtual Exhibition.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Session 05 (Chair: Kiril Simov)
11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk: Piek Vossen. Coaching Diabetes Patients by Conversational AI through Event-centric Knowledge Graphs.
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
Session 06 (Chair: Maxim Goynov)
14:00 – 14:30 Stefan Schenderov, Zhivko Angelov, Tsvetelina Aleksandrova, Desislava Netsovska, Kristin Dimitrova. Bulgarian Online Encyclopedia.
14:30 – 15:00 Eleonora Naxidou. Mapping the Intellectual and Revolutionary Mobility of Lyuben Karavelov (1834–1879)
15:00 – 15:30 Ruslana Margova. Using a LLM for Dialectology: a Map Experiment (Exploring the Conflict between the Seen and the Known)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Session 07 (Chair: Yura Konstantinova)
16:00 – 16:30 Milen Kraev. Design of Digital Assistance Enhancing Digital Cultural Libraries
16:30 – 17:00 Nikolay Paev, Stefan Marinov, Ivan Kratchanov, Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov. Towards a Bulgarian Historical Newspaper Corpus – Construction of Reading Order over the Text in Searchable PDFs
17:00 – 17:30 Miglena Raykovska, M. Borisov, Stanislav Harizanov, L. Pashova, Nikolay Petkov, Pavel Georgiev, Georgi Vasilev, Tsvetan Ostromski, Sv. Trifonova, Ivan Lirkov, Digital Documentation and 3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Features in Garlo, Bulgaria