September 19-20, 2024
Faculty of Electrical Engineeering, University of Ljubljana
The Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana (CJVT), and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI are organising the biennial conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities”. The conference has more than 20 years of tradition, and was thematically expanded in 2016 to include digital humanities. This year, the organizational committee of the conference is led by ZRC SAZU. The event is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, which will host the event on September 19 and 20, 2024.
Thematic areas of the conference
The conference aims to bring together researchers from various backgrounds and methodological frameworks. The main topics will include but are not limited to:
- Speech and other mono- and multilingual language technologies
- Digital linguistics: translation studies, corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, standardisation
- Digital humanities and historical studies, ethnology, literary studies, musicology, cultural heritage, archaeology, and fine arts
- Digital humanities in education and digital publishing
We welcome submissions that present guidelines, research, good practices, projects and results in these areas. The conference will also include invited lectures, a student section, and roundtables on topics related to the conference. The official languages of the conference will be Slovene and English.
Invited speakers will be published soon.
Pre-conference events
Two pre-conference events will be held on the 18th September 2024 (exact schedule TBA):
The final stop of CLASSLA Express – a series of workshops on investigating South Slavic corpora using CLARIN.SI concordancers (Skopje TBA, Zagreb 19 Apr, Rijeka 26 Apr, Belgrade 29 May, Ljubljana 18 Sep).
A joint business meeting of the CLASSLA knowledge centre for South Slavic languages and the ReLDI Centre Belgrade, intended for discussing future organisational, infrastructural and research directions of both organisations, as well as for general networking of researchers interested in the South Slavic language group.
Panels
Frontiers in Speech Communication Research
Chaired by Darinka Verdonik
The realm of speech communication research spans traditional linguistic disciplines and cutting-edge communication technologies, creating a rich tapestry of exploration and innovation. This panel convenes active researchers from computational linguistics, speech technologies, corpus linguistics and traditional linguistic disciplines to discuss the latest advancements and challenges, the motives that underpin their research goals, and how speech communication research can address the societal challenges that confront us today. Join us for a comprehensive journey through the frontiers of speech communication research, where theoretical insights meet practical applications, illuminating the future of this dynamic field.
Important dates
- March 1, 2024: First call for papers
- May 17, 2024: Deadline for abstract/paper submission
- July 5, 2024: Notification of acceptance
- August 23, 2024: Final abstract/paper submission
- August 23, 2024: Registration deadline
- September 18, 2024: Pre-conference events and workshops
- September 19 & 20, 2024: JTDH 2024 Conference
Instructions for authors
The authors are invited to submit either a full paper or an extended abstract. The extended abstract will be published in the book of abstracts and the full papers in the conference proceedings, both of which will be published on the conference website under the Creative Commons license at the beginning of the conference. We leave it up to the authors whether to submit their contributions anonymized or not.
The official languages of the conference are Slovene and English.
Full papers should contain 4000 to 6500 words, while extended abstracts should contain 2000 to 3000 words. For submissions in English, please use the Word template, the LaTeX template [.zip] or the Overleaf LaTeX template (Note that the .zip file and Overleaf template contain LaTeX templates for both Slovene and English). The Slovene Word template is available on the Slovene version of the site.
Please submit your paper on the EasyChair platform by clicking on this link.
The student authors of (full) papers should indicate if it is a student contribution by adding “student paper” to the list of keywords. All the co-authors of student papers should be students. These papers will be presented in a separate student session and will be eligible for the best student paper award.
Organisation
Organisation committee
- Jerneja Fridl, OC chair, Research centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU)
- Miha Peče, ZRC SAZU
- Miha Seručnik, ZRC SAZU
- Mojca Šorn, Institute for Contemporary History
- Ana Cvek, Institute for Contemporary History
- Simon Dobrišek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
- Katja Meden, “Jožef Stefan” Institute
- Kaja Dobrovoljc, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
Programme committee
Steering committee
- Špela Arhar Holdt (chair, CJVT), Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
- Slavko Žitnik (SDJT), Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
- Tomaž Erjavec (CLARIN.SI), Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute
- Jakob Lenardič (DARIAH.SI), Institute for Contemporary History
- Matej Klemen (Student Section), Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana
- Tina Munda (Student Section), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
- David Bordon (Student Section), Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana