With its theme “Lexicography in the Age” of AI, the conference aims to bring together professional lexicographers, linguists, publishers, researchers, software developers and anyone interested in dictionaries and their educational, cultural, political and social impact on everyday life.
The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing and the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, organize the SIG Writing Research School from May 29 to June 1st, 2026. The research school takes place prior to the 21st biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland, from June 2nd to 4, 2026.
This full-day workshop bridges the gap between Large Language Model (LLM) development and the specific research needs of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Join experts in Language Technology and SSH to explore how multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning models can be better aligned with the epistemic values of the humanities.
The Swiss EOSC Node Project (SENPro) invites researchers, data stewards, infrastructure providers, and stakeholders in Swiss and European research ecosystems to their second online update on 18 December 2025 from 9:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m. Join the discussion and learn how Switzerland is approaching EOSC integration through SENPro, fostering Open Science, and creating synergies between national and European infrastructures.
The Writing Conference 2026 from the EARLI Special Interest Group Writing will take place in Winterthur and is co-organised by ZHAW. Learn how to submit your proposal for one of the five different presentation formats and sign-up until 17 December 2025. Keynote talks, symposia, roundtables, outings, networking activities and more await you!
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On 4 December 2025, Goran Glavaš from the University of Würzburg will hold a talk titled: “Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models” which will focus on how to effectively use specific techniques to improve LLMs in a low-resource language context.
On 2 December 2025, from 01:00 p.m. – 03: p.m., the project team of the Swiss EOSC Node Prototype (SENPro) invites researchers from across Switzerland to a virtual meeting focused on shaping Switzerland’s engagement with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
The next SwissNLP Expo will take place on 9 June 2026 at the University of Zurich. This year the event is co-organised with ZHAW and UZH. The format will be similar to last year with booths for both academic and industry exhibitions, workshops, job-seeking activities, networking spaces and more. Save the date and register for the event!
On November 12 from 15:30 – 18:00 at UZH center, the Digital Society Initiative together with LiRI will hold a public panel discussion on “What does and what should AI know?”.