Event type On-site Event
Location
15 - 16.06.2026 at NOI Techpark BZ, Seminar 2, Building A1, –1 floor
17.06.2026 at Eurac Research, Auditorium
Departments ENG Faculty
Contact
ailc.lectures@gmail.com
Lectures on Computational Linguistics 2026
The event focuses on Natural Language Processing for the Society, covering topics from Low Resources Languages, Speech and Text, Embodied AI, Interpretability and Small Language Models
Event type On-site Event
Location
15 - 16.06.2026 at NOI Techpark BZ, Seminar 2, Building A1, –1 floor
17.06.2026 at Eurac Research, Auditorium
Departments ENG Faculty
Contact
ailc.lectures@gmail.com
The 2026 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) together with unibz (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) and ·¡±«¸é´¡°ä R±ð²õ±ð²¹°ù³¦³ó.   
It focuses on Natural Language Processing for the Society, covering topics from Low Resources Languages, Speech and Text, Embodied AI, Interpretability and Small Language Models for education in schools. Featuring frontal classes, evening lectures and hands-on labs, it provides both a high-level overview of the field as well as an introduction to specific topics, and practical experiences. 
SPEAKERS 
Tutorials: 
- Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) 
- Elia Bruni (University of Osnabrück)
- Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz) 
 
Evening Lectures: 
- Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois) 
- Aurelie Herbelot (Denotation UG) 
 
Labs: 
- Loredana Schettino and Alessandro Vietti (Faculty of Education, unibz) 
- Leonardo Bertolazzi (University of Trento) 
- Egon Stemle and Luca Ducceschi (·¡±«¸é´¡°ä R±ð²õ±ð²¹°ù³¦³ó) 
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- Local Organizing Committee 
Raffaella Bernardi, Faculty of Engineering, unibz - Alessandro Vietti, Faculty of Education, unibz
- Luca Ducceschi, EURAC Research
Student Presentations 
Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a 500-word abstract t´Ç ailc.lectures@gmail.com b²â May 16, 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 23, 2026. 
The registration will close on May 27, or earlier — as soon as the maximum number of participants (150) is reached.