Dear all,
We invite everyone interested to attend the 2nd UniDive Training School on
Linguistic Diversity in NLP.
Dates: 20-24 January, 2026 (Tuesday-Saturday)
Location: Yerevan State University (YSU), Yerevan, Armenia
Coordinating Project: UniDive (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in
Language Technology)
Website:
https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:2nd_unidive_training_school
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id%3Dmeetings:other-events:2nd_unidive_training_school&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw0Qrq65Et-FUj9MSC6eMMwG>Cost:
Participants selected on the basis of their applications will be reimbursed,
details below.
We are happy to announce the 2nd edition of UniDive Training School on
Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is
dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators.
Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are
particularly welcome. See below for the application details.
TRAINING SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
Courses
Linguistic Typology for NLP researchers: Methods and Resources in the 21st
century
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch.php?media%3Dmeetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:hammarstrom-ling-typology-for-nlp.pdf&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw2lzTnkPFcN5Mi1bn-4aofQ>
- by Harald Hammarström (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Luigi Talamo
(Saarland University, Germany)
Large Language Models for Low-Resourced Languages: Hands-On Approaches to
Cultural and Genre Diversity in NLP
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch.php?media%3Dmeetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:carp-llms-for-low-resourced-languages.pdf&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw1ymhVGL6tcdne5jlUReuoc>
- by Maria Carp (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) and Nina
Hosseini-Kivanani (RTL Luxembourg and University of Luxembourg)
Diversity quantification in natural language processing: The why, what, where
and how
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/lib/exe/fetch.php?media%3Dmeetings:other-events:2nd-training-school:esteve-et-al-diversity-quantification.pdf&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw15UWnwX3w8zjc83KFvAVLk>
- by Louis Estève
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lisn.upsaclay.fr/membres/esteve-louis/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw01dxGVWSh41RfukaaFsmYO>
(Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France), Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
(Université Catholique Louvain, Belgium), Nurit Melnik (The Open University,
Israel), Agata Savary
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://perso.limsi.fr/savary/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1755963871000000&usg=AOvVaw2EHxQSmyFMNmfPqUBI9-gQ>
(Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France) and Olha Kanishcheva (Heidelberg
University, Germany, SET University, Ukraine)
Poster sessions
Brainstorming hackathon on open issues submitted by the trainees
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Each applicant should submit a project related to language diversity and the
topics of the training school (e.g., research in fields such as linguistic
variation, diversity, typology, and computational linguistics, including
specific topics like diversity quantification across textual genres, corpora
and languages). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding
references). The application should contain:
The title
Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country of the affiliation)
A list of 3-4 key-words
Description of the project related to the topics of the training school
Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the
project
Short statement of the project phase (planned, started, ongoing)
The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview portal
<https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/Training_School>.
IMPORTANT DATES
Trainee's application deadline: 12 September, 2025 (AoE)
Acceptance notification: 17 October, 2025
Invitations for visas (if needed): 20 October, 2025
Official confirmations of travel grants: Early November
Training school: January 20-24, 2026
TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA
We can fund about 40 trainees to come to Yerevan (additionally to local
trainees). In case of a larger number of candidates, the selection criteria
will include:
Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries and Near-Neighbour
Countries can be funded. See here and here
Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted
Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries
and others COST countries)
Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee
Status of the languages, dialects, or varieties on which the trainee intends to
work (low-resourced languages, dialects, or genres are promoted)
If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other
financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also
welcome to participate.
The authors of the selected projects will present them in a poster session
during the Training School.
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Victoria Bobicev
Anna Danielyan
Santiago Herrera
Esther Ploeger
Wessel Poelman
Ranka Stanković
Abigail Walsh
For any question, please contact the organisers at [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> and [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Looking forward to seeing you in Yerevan,
Program Chairs
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