Research meetings: Spring 2026

SpråkbankenText's research meetings during Spring 2026, will take place on Thursdays, from 10:15 to 11.30 (occasionally to 12:00), typically in room F314, unless otherwise announced. The meetings are normally open for all members of SpråkbankenText. On some occasions, we invite a broader audience, these public seminars are announced in SpråkbankenText's calendar.

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The schedule for the Spring of 2026 is as follows (cells highlighted in orange indicate related events that occur outside the meeting’s usual date and/or time):

Date	Topic	Comments
January
8	Discussion of grant proposals – drafts are welcome and may be circulated in advance of the meeting.	Basically for: RJ or VR
15	Discussion of grant proposals (RJ; VR) – drafts are welcome and may be circulated in advance of the meeting - and Planning meeting for Spring 2026	Be prepared with suggestions and relevants events we should note in the calender - for even greater convenience, feel free to edit it yourself before the meeting!
15	Prof Beáta Megyesi: Cracking Hidden Codes and Undeciphered Languages	Time: 15:00-17:00, Place: C350, Lisebergssalen
22	Presentation av VR-projekt - Moved later in Feb	Irene Elmerot
27	RJ Projects and Programmes 2026	Calls close today: 27 January at 03:00 PM
29	Dry-runs (i) Arianna: for presentation of the SweLL treebank (in Swedish) at the CLARIN consortium meeting; (ii) Any LREC-workshops' drafts at this stage?	Arianna: "Trädbanken SweLL: när andraspråkstalare annoterar andraspråkstexter" and possibly LREC-workshops' drafts Dimitris & Herb: "Disfluencies and ASR Performance on Swedish Spontaneous Speech from the ‘Trip to Stockholm’ Discourse Narrative Task" - we can have the 19th or the 26/2 for LREC as well - the Notification of acceptance for the main conference is on the 13th
February
4	Cheap(er) human-in-the-loop labelling strategy for better datasets? - Speaker: Dylan Pashley, Lund University	Time: 12.00 to 13.00 CET; Where: Online - link by registration HERE
4	Comprehensively Evaluating Language in Language Models - Leonie Weissweiler, Uppsala University	Time: 13:15-15:00 CET; Where: In-person (room J336) and Zoom Abstract: Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used in high-stakes situations, it is vital that we accurately assess their strengths, but also their limitations. To this end, I ask: how can we ensure that we neither over- nor underestimate Language Models’ linguistic capabilities? For this, evaluations must consider the full breadth of human language. In my talk, I will demonstrate how progress can be made towards this goal in two aspects: multilingual evaluation, and evaluation for the long tail of language. For multilingual evaluation, I will show how agreement evaluation can be scaled to over 100 languages. For the long tail of language, I will report results from two investigations of language models’ understanding of the so-that construction, with which even state-of-the-art models struggle, even though rich distributional information is available in their training data. I will further demonstrate how LLMs themselves can be leveraged to annotate corpora for long-tail constructions. This will further stretch the boundaries of what we are able to test. All evaluations together paint a nuanced picture of the linguistic capabilities of large language models, showing achievements as well as remaining deficits.
5	Canceled — several coworkers are away on a trip 🚆🧳🏨	---
12	Presentation av VR-projektet De förslavades röster, där vi skapar en korpus av afrikansk-amerikansk engelska.	Irene Elmerot and Leif-Jöran Olsson
19	LREC main and workshop draft papers presentations	Please feel free to share your draft paper contributions with everyone before the meeting. LREC-2026 Main Conference: Maria Irena Szawerna & Jacob Lee Suchardt; Fill-in-the-Blanks: Generating Pseudonyms for English and Swedish Texts with RoBERTa and Qwen Niklas Deworetzki & Arianna Masciolini; Syntactic Sugar for Syntactic Queries: Sequential Representations for Dependency Queries LREC-2026 Workshops: CALD-pseudo: Maria Irena Szawerna & Simon Dobnik; Birds of a Feather: Do Embedding Representations of Personal Information Stick Together? 9th UDW workshop: Christina Klironomou, [et al.] & Arianna Masciolini; Towards Universal Dependencies for L2 Learners of Modern Greek: Annotation and Challenges 6th RaPID: Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Herbert Lange and Ricardo Muñoz Sanchez; Disfluencies and ASR Performance on Swedish Spontaneous Speech from the ‘Trip to Stockholm’ Discourse Narrative Task
19	HumAI	Speaker: Olle Häggström, Time: 15-17, Location:C350, Humanisten and online
25	Explainable AI (XAI) – Concepts, Tools and Applications	Time: 12.00 to 13.00; Where: Online - link by registration; Speaker: Sule Tekkesinoglu; Spoken language: English. Abstract: Abstract: As AI continues to advance, the need to understand how these systems make decisions is becoming increasingly critical. This seminar introduces the growing field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), which aims to make AI systems more transparent, interpretable, and accountable. We will explore why explainability matters not only for developers and researchers but also for non-technical users. Core XAI concepts, including local and global explanations and model-specific and model-agnostic methods, will be introduced, along with some application examples. We will also discuss how explanations are presented and evaluated, as well as the challenges that remain in this evolving field.
26	No meeting	Cancelled.
March
5	Céline Leuzinger: Automatic Feedback Generation - Overview of the field and initial ideas	Overview: Automatic Feedback Generation (AFG) for second language learners is a relatively new field: early works started in 2022 and focused on fine-tuning LLMs on datasets of human-crafted feedback, achieving low to medium results (0.3-0.6 F1). But LLMs’ performances have largely improved over the last few years, offering new possibilities in AFG: studies now mainly use prompting to generate feedback, and employ human annotators to review and evaluate the output. This comes with a range of complex (yet exciting) challenges: to begin with, how should we evaluate the system's output? In other words, what is "good" feedback? Besides, which linguistic features (error classification, atomic edit, etc.) should we feed into the model to further improve on the performances? Existing studies disagree on this question, but have adopted radically different evaluation methods, making comparison of results impractical. The presentation has four parts: I) What is feedback? - SLA perspectives, II) Previous approaches in AFG, III) RQ 1: how can we evaluate feedback?, IV) RQ 2: which linguistic features improve performances? The goal of this presentation is to introduce my field, and hear everyone’s thoughts, ideas and critiques on the work carried out so far.
10	Maria Thorson from the Research and Innovation Services will give a research seminar and go over what applies to research data and what support we can get.	Time: 13:15-15 ; Place: C350, Lisebergssalen
12	Draft discussion: the SweLL treebank (Arianna, Sasha, Maria, Elena and Caroline from the MLT programme)	This is a long paper that we are planning to submit to the Language Resources and Evaluation journal. We will share the draft in advance to make it possible to read it beforehand.
18	LLMs and Responsible AI	Time: 12-17. Location: Room EC, Chalmers. Information and registration here.
19	Presentation of two newly launched projects NordForsk and VR	Dana (NordForsk): Culture-Sensitive Assessment and Adjustment of Large Language Models – Adaptation to the Nordic-Baltic Societies (3 yrs) and Dimitris (VR): AI-driven language biomarkers for early detection and progression of cognitive decline (4 yrs)
19	HumAI	Speaker: Ted Underwood, Time: 15-17, Location: J222 and online
25	Ricardos final seminar	Room C350, more details TBA
26	Can be claimed	---
April
02	Can be claimed	---
09	Can be claimed	---
16	Visit from Språkbanken CLARIN (Sara and Eva)	Samordnare: Sasha
20	Marias mid-term seminar	Details TBA
23	HumAI	Speaker: TBA, Time: 15-17, Location: C350 (DK out of office)
30	Can be claimed	---
May
07	Two ERASMUS+ (Mobility for Traineeship) students from the University of Parma present their background and current work at the department	Giuseppe CHIRIATTI: Whisper Adaptation for Atypical Speech (preliminary) and Davide SAPONARA: computational models for meaning and meaning change (preliminary)
14	LREC 2026 - Main conference and Workshops	11-16 May 2026 - Palau de Congressos de Palma
21	HumAI	Speaker: TBA, Time: 15-17, Location: C350
28	Can be claimed	---
June
04	Learner corpus research metadata	Herbert Lange
09	SBX retreat - details TBA	Marstrands Havshotell
11	Can be claimed	---
18	HumAI	Speaker: TBA, Time: 15-17, Location: C350
25	Can be claimed	---

Date Topic Comments September 8-9 Conference: Language models And RePresentations (LARP) Location: Humanisten - Details here 11 Term Planning Meeting ... 12 Conference: The Change is Key! program's full-day conference on LLMs in the Humanities and Social Science. Humanisten . Time: 10:30-18:00. Location: J330 - Program here 18 Todays topics: i. Conference and Workshop reports; ii. Research proposals submitted for funding, as well as ideas for upcoming projects; iii. Discussion of last week’s proposal regarding "Research Notes" Usual place and time! 18 (fr lunch) - 19 (afternoon) Conference: OFTI 41: OFTI is an interdisciplinary Nordic research network for research on spoken language, conversation, and interaction (Områdesgruppen för Forskning om Tal och Interaktion) Location: Humanisten (various rooms) - cf. Program here. In the program: D Kokkinakis, H Lange and R Muñoz Sanchez with the contribution: Utvärdering av taltill-text-modeller för svensk neuropsykologisk testning 24 External Talk: AI Lund lunch seminar: Beyond AI Ethics Frameworks - Ethical Considerations and Responsibility in Public Sector AI Time: 12.00-13.00. Details here 25 Event: Göteborg Book Fair ("Bokmässan"). Note: SBX has its program point at Bokmässan at the GU monter, e.g. here Preliminary title is "Vad är Språkteknologi/Språkbanken Text?" Here the Here the GUs Program and Here the General Program 29 External Talk: Meaning in mental lexicons in the age of LLMs. Cognitive scientist Dr Simon De Deyne (University of Melbourne) . Time: 13.15-15.00 in C452, . More information here October 02 Seminar: Introducing MARB — A Dataset for Studying the Social Dimensions of Reporting Bias in Language Models Seminar presenters: Tom and Ricardo. Also: Conference: CLARIN Annual Conference 2025, Vienna, Austria ( Tue 30 Sept - Thu 2 Oct) CLARIN Programme 03 External Talk: Using an LLM to generate syntactic queries from NL descriptions - Peter Ljunglöf et al Time: 11-12; Where: Room Analysen, on floor 3 in the EDIT building; description here 07 PhD Defence: : Anna Lindahl: Argumentation and agreement - Annotating and evaluating Swedish corpora for argumentation mining Sal J330, Humanisten, 13:15 - 16:00 09 Seminar: John Chrysostom's Ad Stagirium a daemone vexatum: manuscript history with modern methods. (prelim.). Keywords: Coherence Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), manuscript families/groups, textual scholarship, electronic editing, CollateX, Online Transcription Editor, Standalone Collation Editor, github, virtual manuscript room External guest, speaker: Daniel Ridings - Obs! sal J233 09 Event: "Lunch & Learn med Språkbanken" Time: 12:00; Location: E318, "Röda rummet" 15 (external) Talk/Lexfras-seminar: "Saldo skapar sammanhang" Speaker: Lars Borin; Time: 13:15; Location: J236. Abstract here 16 External Talks: Responsible AI workshop; 9:30 - 10:15: Seminar by Ricardo Baeza-Yates: "Responsible Generative AI" and 10:45 - 11:30: Seminar by Yu Liu: "Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is severe within the past 3500 years" Where: Hall 2256 R Sandberg, Medicinarlängan; More information and Link to registration 16 LREC draft discussions / Presentations Short or Long papers, Workshop proposal 17 Notification: The Organisers of LREC 2026 invite proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo) paper submission as well as workshops, to be held in conjunction with the main conference at Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma de Mallorca (Spain). Proposal submission deadline - today! extended to the 24th of October. Details here. 21 Online Workshop: AI for Image Collections: A Hands-On Workshop 10.00 – 12.00. On Zoom. Introductory workshop on exploring large image collections with the help of AI, hosted by KBLab. Hands-on guide to CLIPtopic, a method for multimodal topic modelling. Registration here. 22 Workshop: CLT Add the title of your demo/presentation here . Everyone attending should register . Humanisten - Whole day event, fika, lunch and dinner are included for all participants. Registration here 23 Canceled due to the previous day's CLT Workshop. N/A 30 Can be claimed (School holiday) N/A November 3 External Talk: Integrating NLP and Pedagogy in Grammatip: Toward Intelligent Language Learning. Time: 13.15-15.00, J236+fika and a follow-up meeting (≈15.00≈17.00, C256) with a Danish team from: ordbogen.com 06 Supervisors' circle Exempelpunkter: övergripande lägesrapport; rutiner och riktlinjer för handledning; kvalitetssäkring av handledning (behov av stöd, resurser, kompetensutveckling eller utbildning för handledare?); forskningsetik; handledarens roll och ansvar; planering framåt (nästa handledarmöte?); andra frågor? 12-13 Conference: Huminfra 2025 (HiC) Location: Frescati, Stockholm. More details: here 13 Can be claimed (but note: HiC-2025) N/A 20 Andrew Caines (Cambridge University, UK) combined guest talk and lecture at the LTR course. Time: 10.15-11.00, Room: J406 Title: Large Language Models and Computer-Assisted Language Learning: existing flaws and future potentialAbstract: Very large language models with billions or trillions of parameters (LLMs) currently dominate the NLP landscape, and recently they have been used for many tasks in CALL, such as essay grading, error correction, and content creation. Since LLMs outperform earlier models on many general NLP tasks, it can be tempting to view them as a ready solution for any domain, including education. But it is important to evaluate precisely how good they are on CALL-related tasks and understand where they fail or can be improved. I will give an overview of the work on CALL for English by the ALTA group in Cambridge: comparing the performance of LLMs and supervised models on various tasks, pointing out some of their strengths and weaknesses, and looking towards future developments towards explainability and so-called ‘baby’ LMs which are trained at a fraction of the cost of LLMs yet still maintain good levels of performance. 20 Event: "Lunch & Learn med Språkbanken" Time: 12:00; Location: E318, "Röda rummet". Register here by 14/11 if you want a wrap. 24 Workshop: Tillsammans med Daniel Wojahn (Södertörns högskola) Time: kl. 9.00−12.00, Location: E208 (Konferensrummet), Humanisten Title: Att använda Språkbankens infrastruktur för att besvara diskursanalytiska forskningsfrågor Details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/aktuellt/kalender/2025-11-24-att-anvanda-sprakbankens-infrastruktur-for-att-besvara (The workshop is open to everyone at Språkbanken.) 26 External Talk: "Detecting Implicitly Harmful Language in Political Discourse"; Julia Mendselsohn from the University of Maryland will be giving an in-person, GRIPES-CLASP seminar Time: 13:15-15:00. Location: Attend in person at room J411 or via Zoom, https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/67063108947?pwd=kPpjvMLCekxNTBVzq4uYP5gFZ6Y6vd.1 Abstract: When discussing politics, people often use subtle linguistic strategies to influence how their audience thinks about issues, which can then impact public opinion and policy. For example, anti-immigration activists may frame immigration as a threat to native born citizens’ jobs, describe immigrants with dehumanizing vermin-related metaphors, or even use coded expressions to covertly connect immigration with antisemitic conspiracy theories. In this talk, I will briefly overview my research program at the intersection of NLP, political framing, and implicitly harmful language. I will primarily focus on work developing foundations for the computational study of dogwhistle communication: messaging that has different meanings for in-group and out-group audiences. Grounded in an ongoing survey of computational research on antisemitism, I will also discuss the urgent need for group-specific resources, explainable models, and socially-grounded evaluation to understand implicit harm both in language analyzed with LLMs and in the models themselves. 27 Arianna & Maria Irena: Putting research in research infrastructure: a few words about UD-SweLL and PI detection for Sparv We are planning two 30-minute presentations + time for questions, discussions, and a break. The presentations will be concerned with our infrastructure work from VT25 and how it can be used for further research. December 02 Språkrådets seminarium by Jussi Karlgren Time: 14:30-16 Location: online, https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62607736073 Title: Språkmodeller och kulturskillnader – hur lär sig språkmodeller språkligt beteende? Abstract: Generativa språkmodeller byggs genom att stora mängder språkliga data processas för att åstadkomma en sannolikhetsfördelning över strängar. En språkmodell kan sedan efter ytterligare trimning, träning, instruktion och anpassning användas för att skapa nya strängar som liknar de förra och som passar till något avsett ändamål. Detta förfarande är inte värderingsneutralt: språkmodellen ger förstås återklang av de data som använts för att först bygga den – men också på hur de träningsmängder, instruktionsdata och anpassningar som använts för efterträningen satts ihop, av vem, för vilket ändamål, med vilka värderingar och med vilken kulturbakgrund. Jag berättar lite om tekniken för hur detta görs och vilken roll språkvård och språkpraktiker kan ha för att bygga nästa generation språkmodeller. 04 Information classification @ Gothenburg university (Elena presents) Time and place: 10.15-11.30, F314Abstract: The university handles information of different kinds, including research, educational, and administrative data. Examples of data are SUC, SweLL, Bloggmix (research data), but also our emails, salaries, transcripts of performance appraisal (utvecklingssamtal) (administrative data), etc. Lately, the risk of damages from leaked information has become more tangible and more realistic, which entails the need to handle the data correctly from the start. The university is, therefore, working on a model that would help: map and classify existing information and datasets across the university units, and set routines across the university units with regards to information classification and storage But what are information classes and how are they defined? And what are the routines that may be introduced into our daily work? This talk will give an overview of both. We will also test the proposed model on a few datasets that we have at Språkbanken Text. Welcome! 08 Mittseminarium: Emilie Francis mittseminarium (discussant: Shafqat Mumtaz Virk). Time:13:15 - 15:00; Place: sal J330; Title: The Anti-Feminist Agenda: Connecting the media and the manosphere through the culture of misogyny. 10 External Talk: Prof Angeline Durand-Vallot: Talk about SweLL: focus on corpus characteristics, and its linguistic aspects Time: 13, Location: F314 10 Cheap(er) human-in-the-loop labelling strategy for better datasets? Time:12:00 - 13:00; Where: Online - link by registration HERE. Abstract: In the social sciences, the creation of high-quality labeled datasets is a persistent challenge: categories are often nuanced, context-dependent, and vulnerable to both model-driven and annotator-driven biases. Automated labeling alone frequently fails to capture these subtleties, while fully manual annotation is prohibitively costly at scale. This work addresses that gap by proposing a cost-efficient human-in-the-loop labeling strategy that preserves essential human judgment, increases awareness of potential bias, and enables the construction of reliable, interpretable datasets suitable for downstream scientific analysis. The proposed approach integrates a phased pipeline that combines human expertise, semi-automated labeling, and machine learning techniques to iteratively enhance dataset quality and model performance. By striking a balance between automation and human input, this strategy offers a practical and efficient solution for generating high-quality labeled datasets, reducing labeling costs, and supporting iterative model refinement. 11 Discussion: Us & SaaS (organized by Arianna) Språkbanken Text produces free data and software, thus playing a central role in the development of an open infrastructure for linguistic research. This research infrastructure is, however, heavily reliant on proprietary SaaS (Software as a Service). Some of these services, like Outlook, are imposed on us by GU. In other cases (cf. ChatGPT Edu), the university heavily encourages their use without enforcing it. Finally, some software choices (e.g. GitHub) are ours to take. Clearly, Språkbanken Text has different degrees of agency in these three different scenarios, but our language technology - and, more generally, technical - expertise can and arguably should be used to influence GU's position. The goal of this meeting is to start a discussion on questions such as: 1. Are we willing to reconsider our own software choices? 2. How do we relate, in terms of workplace culture, to GU's recommendations, especially when it comes to the use of generative models as tools in our work? 3. Should Språkbanken try to claim a more central role in GU's decision making processes, if nothing else when it comes to the purchase of licenses for language technological services? Are we in a position to propose an alternative model? 17 Quantitative language analysis and visualisation in R Time:12:00 - 13:00; Where: Online - link by registration (sign up and an access link to the zoom platform will send to you); Speaker: Veerle Eijsbroek, PhD student, Psychology, Lund U; Abstract: Advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) have enabled psychology researchers to quantitatively study psychological states and behaviors through language. These advancements have laid the foundation for language-based assessments, which can be used to measure, understand, and describe psychological states and behaviors based on natural language. Language can also be visualized to support the interpretation of quantitative assessment scores, reveal meaningful patterns, and clarify how language use relates to psychological states or behaviors. These visualization techniques can range from simple correlations between individual words to more advanced AI-based methods, including Large Language Models and topic modeling. The goal of the open-source R packages text and topics is to make these techniques accessible to social and behavioral scientists, enabling them to use quantitative language analyses and visualizations for meaningful, data-driven insights. 18 ... Grant applications (?) ... Moved in January 2026 25 Happy Holidays! Happy Holidays! --> The schedule for the Spring of 2025 was as follows:

Date	Topic	Comments
January
9
15	<extra> Conference: NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES & AI MODELS: TRAINING AND (RE-)USE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES Deadline f 300w abstracts	More information here: Submissions
16	Planning meeting (internal) as well as discussing (RJ) grant applications (ideas or drafts)	All (researchers and PhD students)
22	<extra> Title: An overview of Burrows’ Delta for authorship attribution (online)	9-10 am CET - Register here
23	<OBS! Room: J236>
28	<extra> Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) project	Closes at: 15:00
30	Discussion of The new ethics law (Sasha leads)	"PM: En ny lag om forskningsetiska krav på och etikprövning av forskning som avser människor"
31	<extra> Symposium: Reading Concordances in the 21st Century; Deadline f 500w abstracts	More information here: Submissions
February
6	(guest) AI Competence Center (AICC) at Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU).	Research Collaboration Meeting
6-7	<extra> Forum för Textforskning (FoT) 17	Göteborg, more info here
13	Sportlov	Sportlov
15	<extra> ACL-2025: Submission Deadline (Main Conference): February 15	More information here: Submissions
20	Postoponed: Whisper - Speech recognition	Herbert: Using Whisper - An In-depth introduction and hands-on experience
25	<extra> NLP in medicine, life and environmental science (Workshop)	Time: 10:00 to 13:30. More information here: online for free - requires registration
27	SBX papers at the NODALIDA main conference or/and the NODALIDA satellite workshops	Presentation of drafts (Maria x2; Anna, Emilie, Arianna)
March
04	<extra> Swedish Research Council (VR) project (humanities and social sciences)	Closes at: <14:00> More information here.
6	Postponed: 1. From 'raw text' to a searchable format in Korp (Martin and Anne). 2. Preliminary: Initial discussion for the PhD candidates - deadline for applications: 3/3 (Dimitris).	NB: the second topic [2] depend whether Dimitris will make it to have proper information before the 6th!
13	First meeting dedicated to the PhD candidates (10.30-12) and later (same date), Herbert: Whisper and KB-Whisper - Speech recognition	Time: 13:00 to 15:00; Location: J233. Using Whisper - An In-depth introduction and hands-on experience.
20	Forskarutbildningsfrågor	VP forskutb besöker - (Gerlof is the contact person)
24	<extra> Anna Lindahl final seminar	Obs! Monday at J431
27	GU lawyers: Erica Schweder, Ellen Nordback, Alessandra Rodrigues Padilha	(Elena is the contact person). Room J439
April
3	Information/initial discussion/initial ranking of the PhD candidates	Elena, Shafqat and Niklas
10	Some preparations for the big talk about SBX and AI on May 5: "Ett HUM om: Göteborgare vs AI – vem kan språket bäst?"	Sasha (in Swedish)
11	<extra> CLARIN-2025 Deadline f extended abstracts	More information here: Submissions
17	Påsklov / Easter red days
23	<extra> Risks and Benefits with AI in Research - Ethical Perspectives	13.00 to 16.15: (free) registration required here: Submissions.
24	Discussion and Ranking of the PhD candidates	Only senior researchers and the PhD representative
May
1	Public Holiday	Public Holiday
5	<extra> SBX event: The Language Bank's Open House	Humanisten, main entrance area.
5	<extra> Ett HUM om: Göteborgare vs AI – vem kan språket bäst?	Trappscenen, Stadsbiblioteket: 18:00-19:00 (Sasha).
8	Revealing Semantic Variation In Swedish Using Computational Models Of Semantic Proximity	Shafqat
14	<extra> Application deadline: RJ Infrastructure for Research 2025	Closes at: <15:00> More information here.
14-15	<extra> Pedagogical Application of Constructicography Workshop 2025	More information here.
15	From 'raw text' to a searchable format in Korp	Martin and Anne
21	<extra> Challenges in sarcasm handling by language models (and humans)	At 13:15-15:00; Hyewon Jang (University of Konstanz): Attend in person at room J411 or via Zoom - CLASP guest.
22
29	Public Holiday	Public Holiday
June
4	<OBS! Wednesday>Korpi: the lightweight Korp version for the public	Peter Ljunglöf
5	Open access to research data and automatic pseudonymization. Two years with Mormor Karl project. This talk will be devoted to the challenges of working with data that contains personal information. I will describe a set of experiments with automatic pseudonymization that we have performed within Mormor Karl project. Among others, experiments with detection and labeling of personal categories using BERT models (Szawerna et al. 2024, 2025), attempts att using LLMs to "fill in the blanks" when substituting personal information with pseudonyms (yet unpublished) and a study on whether pseudonyms can provoke biased automated classifications (Muñoz Sánchez et al. 2024). The choice of models for our experiments is currently dictated by the sensitive nature of our data. To extend the choice from open source to proprietary models, we are currently collecting a "pseudo-corpus" with fictitious personal information that we will be able to share freely for future research (you are welcome to contribute to the pseudo-corpus collection as well). Finally, in this talk I will name several strategies to unify the research on automatic pseudonymization, and outline further challenges, needs for standardization and a proposal of a shared task. Szawerna et al. 2025. The Devil’s in the Details: the Detailedness of Classes Influences Personal Information Detection and Labeling. Szawerna et al. 2024. Detecting Personal Identifiable Information in Swedish Learner Essays. Muñoz Sánchez et al. 2024. Did the Names I Used within My Essay Affect My Score? Diagnosing Name Biases in Automated Essay Scoring?.	Elena Volodina
12	Investigating Linguistic Abilities of LLMs for Native Language Identification. Large language models (LLMs) often achieve high performance in native language identification (NLI) benchmarks by leveraging superficial contextual cues such as names, locations, and cultural stereotypes, rather than the underlying linguistic patterns indicative of native language (L1) influence. To improve robustness, previous work has instructed LLMs to disregard such clues. In this work, we demonstrate that this strategy is unreliable, and predictions can be easily altered by misleading hints. To address this problem, we introduce an agentic NLI pipeline inspired by forensic linguistics, where specialized agents accumulate and categorize diverse linguistic evidence before a final overall assessment.	Ahmet Yavuz Uluslu (University of Zürich, Switzerland) <OBS! Room: J406>
18	The 50th anniversary of Språkbanken 🥇🍾🎂	Wallenberg conference centre, starting in the afternoon and include dinner 🥇🍾🎂🍴🍽
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26
July
3	Summer ...	Summer ...

The schedule for the Autumn of 2024 was as follows:

Date	Topic	Comments
September
10	<extra> SLTC-related meeting	All (particularly those that are about to submit to the conference)
17	Planning meeting (internal)	All (researchers and PhD students)
24	The HUMINFRA handbook	Discussing/presenting chapters fr the group
26	<extra>Workshop on social network analysis	Approaches to computer-assisted tools for social network analysis: 1) the exploratory network analysis software Gephi, and 2) an overview and test of other tools on how social network analysis can be integrated, combined, and explored concerning various research interests. Apply to the workshop to pernilla.severson@lnu.se
October
1	Maria's idea seminar	This talk is hybrid (link). There is no text to read in advance. The presentation will be in English, but questions may be in Swedish - Room: C362. (Rescheduled from Higher Seminar)
8	General researcher meeting	Talking about what we are working on
9	<extra>"Robustness in NLP: challenges and opportunities"	(13:15-15:00) Rob van der Goot (IT Univ., Copenhagen) in-person (room J411) seminar or via
15	The CLASP annual conference, 14-15 Oct	Title: "Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing)". Also note: Deadline for NODALIDA; currently the 21/10 extended to the 27/10.
21	13:15 – 15:00 in J444: Arianna Masciolini's 'middle seminar'	Title: Cross-lingual approaches to computational Second Language Acquisition: the potential of Universal Dependencies.
22	10:15 – 11:30 in J303 SBX local IT infrastructure (Herbert) --- 13:00 – 15:00 in J406 Helpdesk (case management system) (Leif-Jöran)	Servers and the upcoming helpdesk system at Språkbanken Text
23	< extra> CLASP seminar: 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM (room J411 or via zoom)	Yufang Hou from IBM Research & UKP Lab-TU Darmstadt: The AI-Augmented Scientist: Building Computational Models for Effective Knowledge Synthesis and Dissemination”
29	No meeting - autumn holidays/Höstlov	...for some of group's members, so the meeting is cancelled.
November
5	See the blog post	(SWETALY meeting)
12	Giorgia Albertin, PhD student. Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. University of Bologna	Title: About cohesion and other discourse properties in cognitive impairment.
18	<extra> 13:15 – 15:00 in J431 or on Zoom: Ricardo Muñoz's 'middle seminar'	Title: From Algorithms to Classrooms: NLP for Second Language Learning as a Case Study for Bias and Fairness in AI.
19	AITrust workshop at WASP-HS and AI for Humanity and Society	WASP-HS@Linholmen Conference Centre
26	SBX papers at the SLTC main conference or/and the SLTC satellite workshops	Dry run for the 10th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC); 27–29 Nov., at Linköping Univ.
27	<extra> 10:15 – 12:00 on Zoom: Tom Södahl	Title: Don't Mention the Norm - On Reporting Bias and Social Bias in Humans and Language Models
29	<extra> 12:00 – 13:00 on EA, EDIT-huset, Chalmers: Kenny Smith, U of Edinburgh	Title: Language learning, language use, and the evolution of linguistic structure (Experiments based on AI)
December
3	Canceled: Discuss upcoming research grant proposals	In the first case, RJ - Do we have any - send an email to dimitrios.kokkinakis@svenska.gu.se, a few days before and inform about your plans/drafts etc. NB: This event may be canceled on short notice due to the trial lectures during the afternoon!
5	<extra> 18:00 – 19:30, on Zoom, Shalom Lappin	Title: NLP/AI Seminar: AI Dangers
10	Christmas Smorgasbord/Julbord	Christmas Smorgasbord/Julbord, at 11.30-15.00
16	<extra> Mini workshop: Grammatical Error Correction	Time: 13.15-15.00, Room: J415
24	Happy Holidays!	Happy Holidays!

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Date	Topic	Comments
January
16	Planning meeting (internal)
22		Application seminar SFS
23	—	Ethics for NLP (FLoV)
30	—	RJ project deadline
February
6	Herbert presents earlier work (internal)
13	—	School holidays
20	Discussing VR application drafts (internal)	Also deadline VR Tvärvetensk forskningsmiljö
27	—	—
March
4-6	—	Research retreat SFS
5	—	Deadline VR HS
12	Discussion of Felix & Sasha's draft (internal)
19	—	Also: EACL
25	Felix final seminar	(Monday!)
26	Discussion of Emilie's draft (internal)
April
2	—	School holidays
9	Handledarkollegium SBX (closed)	Also: deadline VR NT
16	—
23	Mini-workshop "Approaches to corpus searches"	NB! location J233, https://www.gu.se/en/event/approaches-to-corpus-searches
30	—	St Walpurga's eve
May
7	(free)
14	CLARIN:EL	Speaker: Kanella Pouli, fr Athena RC/ILSP, Greece. Abstract: CLARIN:EL is a Research infrastructure for Language Resources & Technologies (LRTs); it is the Greek part of the European CLARIN ERIC Infrastructure. It provides a multitude of assets related to Language Technology (LT) for and by Social Sciences & Humanities (and beyond), focusing mainly but not exclusively on Greek LRTs. The Central Inventory provides access to corpora, lexica, tools and language descriptions. Users can effortlessly locate desired resources using keywords and filters. Additionally, the infrastructure hosts a Workbench, i.e. a variety of services to process corpora from the Central Inventory or data submitted by registered users. For those eager to contribute their own data, a user-friendly interface enables the creation of metadata records for their resources. All the information regarding the infrastructure, the CLARIN network, and the NLP community in Greece can be found in the user guide, portal, and NLP:EL Knowledge Centre. Brief Bio: Computational Linguist, MSc., KP's work focuses on the design and improvement of repositories, the development and adaptation of metadata schemata for language resource documentation as well as the collection and processing of language resources.
21	—	No meeting bec. of LREC
28	(free)
June
4	—	SBX Retreat
10	Emilie idea seminar	(Monday!)
11	Stina Johansson and Lars Kullman from UB	About publication points
18	LREC/COLING summary

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