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Dear colleague,
We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology
webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center
for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one
seminar every month.
Next webinar:
Speaker: Goran Glavaš (Universität Würzburg)
Title: Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of)
Language Models
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 15:00 CET
Summary: Language models tend to excel in languages they see the most
during (pre)training—leaving low-resource languages at a stark
disadvantage. But what if we could boost performance without throwing
(much) more data or compute at the problem? In this talk, I’ll present
a set of resource-lean (read: “cheap”) strategies that enhance
multilingual language understanding and generation in low-resource
settings. I’ll show how conceptually effective knowledge transfer
techniques—not just bigger models—can improve multilingual
capabilities across three major fronts: (1) standard text-based LLMs,
(2) vision-language models, and (3) code language models. The
takeaway? Scaling isn’t the only answer: for truly inclusive
multilingual language technology, we need stronger inductive biases
and more conceptual innovation.
Bio: Goran Glavaš is a Full Professor for Natural Language Processing
at the University of Würzburg (Germany), Center for AI and Data
Science (CAIDAS). His research focuses on multilingual language
understanding and cross-lingual transfer, vision-and-language models,
and trustworthiness of (multilingual) language models. He has
(co-)authored over 120 publications in NLP and IR, regularly
publishing at top-tier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, TACL, SIGIR,
ECIR). He received the best long paper award at EACL 2021 and
outstanding paper awards at EACL 2024 and ACL 2024. He served as an
Editor-in-Chief of the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) and regularly serves
as (Senior) Area Chair for top-tier NLP conferences.
Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea
You can view the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for
upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars
Upcoming webinars:
Thamar Solorio (January 15)
Henning Wachsmuth (February 5)
José Andrés González López (March 5)
Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating,
please complete this registration form:
http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea
If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the
following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form
instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info
Best wishes,
HiTZ Zentroa
P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at
these webinars.
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