International CLaDA-BG Conference 2023

This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research.

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

CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference

Sofia, Bulgaria

10-12 May 2023

Deadline extension: 05 March 2023

CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history.

This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research.

Topics of Interest

The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones:

• Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support
• Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H
• Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H
• Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data
• The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research
• Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H
• Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H
• Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history

Invited Speakers

Agiatis Benardou, DARIAH EU

Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy

Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany

Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria

 Important Dates

Submission deadline:  24.02.2023 - new 05.03.2023

Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023

Final Submission:  3.05.2023

Conference:  10-12.05.2023

Submissions

We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).

Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2023

For contacting organizers please use the following email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Program Committee

         Agiatis Benardou, DARIAH EU

António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Desislava Paneva-Marinova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Dimitar Iliev, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

Dimitar Popov, Shumen University, Bulgaria

Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tuebingen, Germany

Francesca Frontini, Institute for Computational Linguistics,  Italy

Ivan Georgiev, IICT & IMI, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgari

Koraljka Kuzman Šlogar, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia

Laurent Romary, Inria, France

Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Magdelena Stoyanova, CISBI-Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy

Milena Dobreva, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria

Monica Monachini, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy

Peter Stanchev, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Kettering University, USA

Petya Osenova, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski” and IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Yura Konstantinova, Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria