International CLaDA-BG Conference 2024

This is the third 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 2024 Conference

Sofia, Bulgaria

26-28 June 2024

Deadline is extended to 08.05.2024

Satellite event: Workshop CLASSLA-Express: Using corpora in language research (It will be held on 26.06.2024 in the morning)

Programme

Registration

The participation at the conference is free of charge. The fee for the conference dinner is 30 Euro. All participants are invited to register for the conference. The registration link is available here.

Venue

The conference will be held in Sofia. The conference will take place in the "Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall at BAS-Administration (Sofia, 1040, 1 "15 November" Str.).

The official language of the conference is English.

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.

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
Large Language Models in DH
Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history

Invited Speakers

Darja Fišer, CLARIN ERIC. ParlaMint: From Democracy to Data and back

Maciej Piasecki, CLARIN-PL, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland. Large Language Models as a Generic Engine for Digital Social Sciences and Humanities

Pia Sommerauer, CLTL, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Know What You Are Modeling: Why We Need Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Understand Large Language Models

Absract: (Large) language models achieve impressive results on various NLP tasks. As such, they have become attractive tools for many humanities fields that study research questions based on (large amounts of) texts. LLMs are, however, based on purely distributional data; they still rely on learning (possibly complex and sophisticated) associations between words and their contexts. It is difficult to tell to what degree language models can reflect a human-like understanding of semantics and how specific information is reflected. Are the models nuanced enough to reflect subtle changes in word meaning over time? To what degree do models reflect social biases? Is it possible to remove specific information while leaving the rest of the model unchanged? How should we examine the model to find the information we are interested in? When using computational models to answer research questions in the humanities, it is important to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the models. In this talk, I will present work from two research directions: studying semantic change and examining social biases. Both directions illustrate how complex use cases and questions informed by humanities research can help us reach a better understanding of language models.

Tanja Wissik, ACDH-CH, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria. Terminology practices in institutional settings in the digital age: challenges and opportunities

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 28.04.2024

Notification of acceptance: 24.05.2024

Final Submission: 20.06.2024

Conference: 26-28.06.2024

Submissions

We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). We conform to CEUR-WS.org proceedings. There are two types of papers: regular papers (at least 10 "standard" pages) and short papers (5-9 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. A "standard" is 2500 characters.

We also accept extended abstract submissions (3-5 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. They will be presented at the conference and will be published in a Book of Abstracts in electronic form.

Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2024

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

Conference Chairs

Kiril Simov, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

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

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

Program Committee

Andreas Witt, Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany

Agiatis Benardou, DARIAH EU

António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal, tbc

Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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

Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia

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

Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

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

Laurent Romary, Inria, France

Maria Gavriilidou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing - Athena R.C., Greece

Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

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

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, tbc

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

Snežana Petrović, Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy for Sciences, Serbia

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

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