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Workshop | Digital Challenges for small languages

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October 22-23 2025, Maastricht

Digital challenges for small languages is a 2-day workshop held in Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS). The workshop gives a platform to researchers and students involved in small, minoritized, or low-resource languages and how they access the digital domain. A call for papers can be found here, participant registration can be found here.

We welcome papers and participants involved in the following topics that intersect with small languages, minoritized languages, or low-resource languages and dialects:

  • Digital Humanities
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence, including fair and trustworthy AI
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Theoretical, computational, or corpus linguistics
  • Network science
  • Language revitalization, decolonization, and preservation of digital heritage

Contact: andreas.simons@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Organizers:

Andreas Simons, Leonie Cornips, Adriana Iamnitchi

Click here for more information and to register

Scientific mission of LOT

The aim of LOT is to create a scientific community in which this research can be optimally pursued, and to educate the next generation of researchers with an open mind toward new disciplinary and interdisciplinary developments, theoretical and methodological alternatives, and possible applications.

LOT stimulates new initiatives and developments in research, and provides a national forum to further communication between the participating institutes with a view to short- and long-term collaboration.

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LOT was officially established in June 1994 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The LOT school series soon acquired an international reputation as a result of inviting well-known linguists to teach at the schools.

The research by the LOT institutes covers all major areas of linguistics, and exploits a wide range of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks.

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