CLaDA-BG 2024 Programme

The Conference "Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTaDH-RA) will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 26-28 June 2024. The programme is now available.

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)

Bulgarian Academy of Scences and Sofia University

Sofia, Bulgaria

26-28 June 2024

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First day: 26. 06. 2024 (Wednesday)

Venue: "Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall at BAS-Administration (Sofia, 1040, 1 "15 November" Str.)

08:30 – 14:00 Registration

Session 01 (Chair: Petya Osenova) - Workshop CLASSLA-Express: Using Corpora in Language Research (Registration)

 09:00 – 09:20 Introduction (Room 207)

• CLARIN.SI, CLaDA-BG and building the CLASSLA Corpora
• Using corpora in language research

 09:20 – 10:30 Practical work with CLASSLA Corpora - part 01

 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

 11:00 – 11:40 Practical work with CLASSLA Corpora - part 02

  11:40 - 12:00 Discussion and closing

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

Session 02 (Chair: Kiril Simov)

14:00 – 14:15 Opening

 14:15 – 15:15 Invited talk: Pia Sommerauer. Know What You Are Modeling: Why We Need Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Understand Large Language Models.

 15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break

 Session 03 (Chair:  Zlatomira Gerdzhikova)

15:45 – 16:15 Todor Todorov and Milen Petrov. The Project “Going Through War”: А Digital Resource for the Study of Medieval Warfare.

16:15 – 16:45 Maxim Goynov, Detelin Luchev, Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Radoslav Pavlov, Lubomir Zlatkov and Konstantin Rangochev.  Towards Providing Analytical Services in the Web-based Platform for Intelligent Cultural Content Management CultIS. Slides

16:45 – 17:15 Hristina Kabadjova, Nikolay Petkov, Georgi Vasilev, Georgi Evtimov, Miglena Raykovska. Applications of Augmented and Virtual Reality in Museums.

Demo

17:20 – 18:00 Different tools by conference participants will be demonstrated.

Welcome Party 17:30 – 19:00

Second day: 27. 06. 2024 (Thursday)

Venue: "Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall at BAS-Administration (Sofia, 1040, 1 "15 November" Str.)

Session 04 (Chair: Dimitar Popov)

09:00 – 09:30 Stamatia Fotiadou. Historical Legacy in Pixels: Refugee Movements of Early 20th Century Greece and Bulgaria Through Digital Storytelling and Historical Memory.

09:30 – 10:00 Ivan Kratchanov and Dimitar Minev. Implementing Digitized Library Heritage in an Augmented Reality Serious Game about the City of Plovdiv's History and Culture. Slides

10:00 – 10:30 Francisco J. Carreras-Riudavets and Zenón Hernández-Figueroa. DiSeCan: A Tool for Consulting Parliamentary Sessions Journals Using Linguistic Intelligent Text Search (InteLiText).

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

Session 05 (Chair: Desislava Paneva-Marinova)

11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk: Tanja Wissik. Terminology Practices in Institutional Settings in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities.

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

Venue:  Hall 1 at Sofia University

Session 06 (Chair: Petya Osenova)

14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk: Maciej Piasecki. Large Language Models as a Generic Engine for Digital Social Sciences and Humanities.

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

Session 07 (Chair: Yura Konstantinova)

15:30 – 16:00 Nikolay Paev, Kiril Simov, Petya Osenova, Silvia Petrova. Large Language Models for Bulgarian NLP. Slides

16:00 – 16:30 Zlatomira Gerdzhikova, Eli Filipova, Todor Todorov and Milen Petrov. Historical Chameleons Project – Collaboration between Analog and Digital Research.

16:30 – 17:00 Simeon Simeonov. Mapping the Bulgarian Foreign Service.

17:00 – 17:30 Kristiyan Simeonov. Exploring Vulgar Latin: An Automated Approach Using Wiktionary and Data Mining Techniques.

Dinner 18:30 – details will be announced at the conference

Third day: 28. 06. 2024 (Friday)

"Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall at BAS-Administration (Sofia, 1040, 1 "15 November" Str.)

Session 09 (Chair: Ivan Georgiev)

 09:00 – 09:30 Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Maxim Goynov, Detelin Luchev, Radoslav Pavlov, Konstantin Rangochev, and Lilia Pavlova. CultIS: Innovative Platform for Intelligent Cultural Content.

 09:30 – 10:00 Ivajlo Nachev. Applications of 3D Technologies in Modelling the Historical Targovska Street in Sofia: Progress and Challenges.

 10:00 – 11:00 Petya Osenova, Kiril Simov, Lubomira Borisova, Stefan Marinov. Kristin Dimitrova. Current Development of IICT-BAS Language Resources. 

 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

 Session 10 (Chair: Kiril Simov)

 11:30 – 12:30 Invited talk: Darja Fišer. ParlaMint: From Democracy to Data and Back. Slides

 12:30 – 12:45 Closing