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
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19	HumAI	Speaker: Olle Häggström, Time: 15-17, Location:C350, Humanisten and online
26
March
5	Automatic Feedback Generation	Céline Leuzinger presenting her initial ideas
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.
19	HumAI	Speaker: Ted Underwood, Time: 15-17, Location: J222 and online
25	Ricardos final seminar	Room C350, more details TBA
26
April
02
09
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	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)
May
07
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
June
04	Learner corpus research metadata	Herbert Lange
09	SBX retreat - details TBA	Marstrands Havshotell
11
18	HumAI	Speaker: TBA, Time: 15-17, Location: C350
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