16:00 – 18:00

Panel discussion: 
How language technology transforms language services 

• Mirjana Starović, ReLDI member, Director at Lexicom – linguistic engineering d.o.o
• Maja Miličević Petrović, ReLDI member, Associate Professor at the Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna
• Aleksandar Janković, Director at Create translations
• Darko Pekar, Director at AlfaNum 
• Qinghua Sun, Deputy Dean at iFlytek Research Institute

09:30 – 10:30

Invited talk by Yves Scherrer, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

What can machine translation and language identification tasks tell us about linguistic variation?

11:00 – 12:00

Main scientific programme – Session 1

State of the art in text classification for South Slavic languages: Fine-tuning or prompting?
Taja Kuzman Pungeršek, Peter Rupnik, Ivan Porupski, Nikola Ljubešić

Croatian and Serbian speech-to-text conversion between literal and standard
Tanja Samardžić, Peter Rupnik, Nikola Ljubešić, Mirjana Starović

Explainable linguistic variety classification: The case of Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian
Aleksandra Miletić, Timothee Mickus, Yves Scherrer

12:00 – 13:00

Programme Synergies - Poster session

TESLA: Text Embeddings - Serbian Language Applications
Ranka Stanković, Mihailo Škorić, Milica Ikonić Nešić, Olivera Kitanović
Poster download

Embedding text in emotion and evocation vector spaces
Mihailo Škorić, Ranka Stanković
Poster download

From names to places: Serbian entity linking through the lens of GIS
Ranka Stanković, Saša Petalinkar, Milica Ikonić Nešić
Poster download

From bilingual learners’ dictionary to dynamic platform for learners:
Towards AI-augmented Japanese-Croatian (WaKu) and Japanese-Serbian (WaSe) language learning resource
Irena Srdanović

TakeLab Retriever platform
Ana Barić, Laura Majer, Marko Čuljak
Poster download

COMtext.SR data and models
Vuk Batanović, Lenka Bajčetić, Aleksandra Todorović, Tanja Samardžić
Poster download 

Presenting the project ELOQUENCE
Aleksandar Kovačević

Multimodal human-machine speech communication in the Serbian language
Milan Sečujski 

14:30 – 15:00

Programme Synergies – Discussion

15:00 – 16:00

Main scientific programme – Session 2

Acoustic trends across sentiment-labelled speech in the Croatian parliament
Ivan Porupski, Nikola Ljubešić

Genderedness dictates the choice of agreement with numeral phrases in Serbian
Stefan Milosavljević, Jelena Stojković

Torlak theme vowels in the verbal domain: A corpus-based study
Stefan Milosavljević, Marko Simonović, Anđela Babić, Mirjana Mirić, Jelena Stojković

16:30 – 18:00

Panel discussion: 
National strategies for language technology 

• Ranka Stanković, Professor at the University of Belgrade
• Goran Nenadić, Professor at the University of Manchester
• Yves Scherrer, Associate Professor at the University of Oslo
• Slobodan Marković, Digital Advisor at United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

18:00 – 18:15

Closing remarks