The CLIDA 2024 workshop will run on 9 April 2024 at the Lancaster University’s Management School (LUMS), LT16 (for venue click here)
A printable version of the Programme can be found here (click to download)
| 9:00 am – 9:30 | Arrival and Coffee | Management School, Lancaster University |
| 9:30 am – 9:40 | Dr Mo El-Haj and Dr Saad Ezzini | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:40 am – 10:05 | Dr Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen’s University Belfast | Variation and communities among speakers of Breton and Cornish |
| 10:05 am – 10:30 | Dr Daniel Cunliffe, University of South Wales | Exploring the presence of Cymraeg on TikTok |
| 10:30 am – 10:55 | Professor Dawn Knight, Cardiff Universit | Enhancing language technology resources in minoritised language contexts: past, present and future research projects and opportunities |
| 10:55 am – 11:20 | Mr Gruffudd Prys, Bangor University | Recent Language Technology developments for Welsh at Bangor University |
| 11:20 am – 11:35 | Coffee Break | (15 minutes) |
| 11:35 am – 12:00 | Dr Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Dublin City University | NLP and corpus-linguistic tasks: Current work and challenges for the Irish language |
| 12:00 pm – 12:25 | Dr David Howcroft, Edinburgh Napier University | Scottish Gaelic in Natural Language Processing |
| 12:25 pm – 12:50 | Dr Inge Birnie, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) | Gaelic language use and identity in the digital era |
| 12:50 pm – 2:00 | Lunch Break | (1h 10m) |
| 2:00 pm – 2:20 | Dr Nouran Khallaf and Dr Ignatius Ezeani | Advancing Welsh Natural Language Processing: Bridging Gaps in Resources and Tools for Low-Resource Languages |
| 2:20 pm – 2:45 | Dr Cedric Lothritz, University of Luxembourg | Exploring Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning Techniques to Create Language Models for Luxembourgish |
| 2:45 pm – 3:10 | Professor Kevin Scannell | Explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction |
| 3:10 pm – 3:25 | Dr Abigail Walsh | eSTÓR and More: Developing Datasets for Irish NLP |
| 3:25 pm – 3:40 | Professor Paul Rayson | Affordances of the CLARIN research infrastructure for corpus research on Celtic languages |
| 3:40 pm – 3:55 | Coffee Break | (15 minutes) |
| 3:55 pm – 5:15 | Panel Discussion |