Workshop schedule

The workshop will take place on March 2nd, 2025.

IMPORTANT: all times are in Eastern European Standard Time (Tallinn Time) / CET +1. So if you are in Stockholm, the time in Tallinn is Stockholm time + 1 hour.

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome

9:10 - 9:40 Keynote I, Beáta Megyesi: Unlocking Hidden Histories: AI and Expert Collaboration in Deciphering Rare Scripts (session chair: Simon Dobnik), slides are available here.

9:40 - 10:00 Oral talks I (session chair: Simon Dobnik)

• The Application of Corpus-Based Language Distance Measurement to the Diatopic Variation Study (on the Material of the Old Novgorodian Birchbark Letters)
  Afanasev, Ilia and Lyashevskaya, Olga

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 Keynote II, Joshua Wilbur: Digitizing Pite Saami: Making the most of limited resources (session chair: Jörg Tiedemann), slides are available here.

11:00 - 12:00 Oral talks II (session chair: Špela Arhar Holdt)

• 11:00 - 11:20: Voices of Luxembourg: Tackling Dialect Diversity in a Low-Resource Setting [ONLINE] Hosseini-Kivanani, Nina and Schommer, Christoph and Gilles, Peter

• 11:20 - 11:40: Automatic Validation of the Non-Validated Spanish Speech Data of Common Voice 17.0 [ONLINE]
  Hernández Mena, Carlos Daniel and Scalvini, Barbara and Lág, Dávid í

• 11:40 - 12:00: OCR Error Post-Correction with LLMs in Historical Documents: No Free Lunches
  Kanerva, Jenna and Ledins, Cassandra and Käpyaho, Siiri and Ginter, Filip

12:00 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:40 Keynote III, Jussi Karlgren: What are the most sustainable and valuable resources that language technologists should develop for training language models? (session chair: Nikolai Ilinykh), slides are available here.

13:40 - 14:40 Oral talks III (session chair: Barbara Scalvini)

• 13:40 - 14:00: FoQA: A Faroese Question-Answering Dataset Simonsen, Annika and Nielsen, Dan Saattrup and Einarsson, Hafsteinn

• 14:00 - 14:20: Annotating Attitude in Swedish Political Tweets [ONLINE] Lindahl, Anna

• 14:20 - 14:40: Multi-label Scandinavian Language Identification (SLIDE) Fedorova, Mariia and Frydenberg, Jonas Sebulon and Handford, Victoria and Langø, Victoria Ovedie Chruickshank and Willoch, Solveig Helene and Midtgaard, Marthe Løken and Scherrer, Yves and Mæhlum, Petter and Samuel, David

14:40 - 15:50 Poster session (incl. coffee break)

15:50 - 16:50 Panel discussion with Jussi Karlgren, Joshua Wilbur, Danila Petrelli, Hafsteinn Einarsson, Beáta Megyesi (moderator: Nikolai Ilinykh)

16:50 - 17:00 Closing