We are pleased to announce the invited speakers for the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities conference 2026:
Andrea Kocsis: Digital Ghosts: Communicating Absence, Loss, and Uncertainty in Humanities Data
Humanities data is fragmentary, interpretative, uncertain and uneven. Traditional data science and visualisation methods frequently treat these qualities as noise to be cleaned. In contrast, the approach we used in the Digital Ghosts project treats gaps and irregularities as meaningful evidence, considering incompleteness as part of the cultural record.
Anna Vacalopoulou: LLMs as lexicographers: Who needs dictionaries when AI knows everything?
Are dictionaries facing extinction in the age of artificial intelligence? As AI tools instantly offer numerous types of language assistance, the traditional role of dictionaries is being called into question. But is the rise of AI a threat, an opportunity, or something more complex? For centuries, dictionaries have served as authoritative repositories of language, documenting how words are defined, used, and evolve over time.
The full keynote abstracts and speaker biographies are available on the conference website.