(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear colleagues,

We again invite participants to a three-day winter school on web-scale NLP research, with a thematic focus on multilinguality in LLM development and evaluation. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by the following invited speakers:

- Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Laurie Burchell and Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Common Crawl - Max Idahl, ellamind - Julia Kreutzer, Cohere for Labs - other international experts to be confirmed (please monitor the school web page for updates)

The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL) network and Digital Europe project OpenEuroLLM (https://openeurollm.eu/). It seeks to stimulate community formation, i.e. strengthening interaction and collaboration among European research teams in NLP and advancing a shared level of knowledge and experience in using high-performance e-infrastructures for large-scale NLP research. This 2026 edition of the winter school puts special emphasis on NLP researchers from countries who participate in the EuroHPC consortium (https://www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/supercomputers/our-supercomputers_en) and is endorsed as a doctoral training event in the European Circle U university alliance (https://www.circle-u.eu/).

The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 2–4, 2026, in Norway. For additional information, please see:

https://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training

There is no participant fee for the winter school, and the organizers will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3855 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities).

We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. In total, we expect 60–80 participants at the 2026 winter school. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on November 28, another one on December 5, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Friday, December 19, 2025.

Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2026!

Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team)