Since 2020, the Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology of the Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ) has hosted a webinar series featuring talks by key researchers in the field. The series has had prominent guest speakers such as for example Roger K. Moore.
On 4 December 2025 at 3:00 p.m. CET, the next talk of the webinar series will be held. Goran Glavaš from the University of Würzburg will give a talk on “Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models”. The full professor for NLP focuses his research on multilingual language understanding and cross-lingual transfer, vision-and-language models, as well as trustworthiness of multilingual language models.
In the talk, Glavaš will touch on how low-resource languages are left at a disadvantage during (pre)training compared to languages with ample material. Instead of “throwing” more data at the model, boosting the performance by including resource-lean strategies that are able to improve the performance of the models in a low-resource setting, is explored.
Register
To attend the online webinar on Thursday, simply follow the instructions on the registration page of HiTZ:
Future events
The research center has a list of future speakers on their webinar page. People interested in Artificial Intelligence and Language Technology will find engaging talks in the future events section of the HiTZ website.
However, the Basque Center for Language Technology has more to offer. The infrastructure regularly archives the talks of the webinar series and uploads a recording of the meeting on their official youtube channel. Discover dozens of talks by visiting their extensive video library.
