Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2026 Conference
Sofia, Bulgaria Venue: tba 25-26 June 2026
CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. This is the fifth edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research.
Topics of Interest The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones: • Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support, applications • Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H • Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H • Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data, etc. • The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research • Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H • Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H • Large Language Models for DH • Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history
Invited Speakers The invited speakers will be announced soon
Important Dates Submission deadline: 19.04.2026 Notification of acceptance: 24.05.2026 Final Submission: 20.06.2026 Conference: 25-26.06.2026
Submissions We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). We conform to CEUR-WS.org proceedings but the proceedings will not be published there. The instructions for preparing the submissions are here: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART We invite two types of papers: regular papers (between 10 and 12 "standard" pages) and short papers (5-9 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. A "standard" is 2500 characters. We also accept extended abstract submissions (3-5 "standard" pages) in accordance with CEURART, 2-column style. They will be presented at the conference and will be published in a Book of Abstracts in electronic form. Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to following email: ltadh-ra@bultreebank.org For contacting organizers, please use the following email: ltadh-ra@bultreebank.org
The CLaDA-BG Organizers