Conference Programme Details
The conference will run from Monday 12 October, 9:00 CET, until Tuesday 13 October 12:30 CET.
Day One
| Time | Monday 12 October 2026 |
| 08:30–09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening |
| 09:15–10:15 | Keynote by Marko Grobelnik Chair: Marko Tadić |
| Session 1 — LLM Knowledge, Reasoning & Human Comparison Chair: Marko Tadić | |
| 10:15–10:35 | Anna Mikó and Anna Babarczy – Epistemic Vigilance and the Effect of LLM-Based Assistance on Stress Levels During Cognitively Demanding Tasks |
| 10:35–10:55 | Noémi Ligeti-Nagy – Does Answer Format Matter? Multiple-Choice vs. Open-Ended Evaluation of Cultural Knowledge in Hungarian LLMs |
| 10:55–11:15 | Marina Sokolova, Natalia Moskvina and Nayara Mirio E Silva – Code-Switching as a Parsing Cue: Humans vs. LLMs |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee break |
| Session 2 — Lexical Semantics, Terminology & Lexicography Chair: Enikő Héja | |
| 11:45–12:05 | Claus Zinn and Erhard Hinrichs – Evaluating the Usage of LMMs for an Example-Based Word Sense Disambiguation Task |
| 12:05–12:25 | Barbara Heinisch – Specialised Language and Large Language Models: Terminology as Pain Point in LLM-Produced Translations of University Texts in German? |
| 12:25–12:45 | Alexey Matyushin, Daria Ryzhova, Anastasiya Klenova, Adelina Makarova and Lada Starostina – LLM-Assisted Serbian–Russian Lexicography: The Case of Medical Terminology |
| 12:45–13:45 | Lunch |
| Session 3 — Metadata, Classification & Annotation Chair: Claus Zinn | |
| 13:45–14:05 | Réka Dodé – The Applicability of Keywords and Additional Metadata for Fields of Science Classification |
| 14:05–14:25 | Gaurish Thakkar, Marko Tadic and Nives Mikelić Preradović – Co-text-Aware Croatian Sentiment Annotation Using Open-Source Large Language Models |
| 14:25–14:45 | Réka Dodé, Yang Zijian Győző, Flóra Földesi and Enikő Héja – Prompt-Based Metadata Extraction with Llama, Qwen and Gemma on Hungarian Scientific Corpora |
| 14:45–15:05 | Alexandr Parahonco, Victoria Bobicev, Maria Mitrofan and Verginica Barbu Mititelu – From Metadata to Synthetic Legal Text: A Two-Stratum Romanian Generation Pilot for ADAMo |
| 15:05–15:35 | Coffee break |
| Session 4 — Applications: RAG, Language Learning & Community/Society Chair: Gábor Prószéky | |
| 15:35–15:55 | Boglárka Vermeki –Corpus-Grounded Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Beginner Hungarian: Comparing Pedagogical and Authentic Child-Language Grounding in Communicative Task Generation |
| 15:55–16:15 | Rodrigo Santos and António Branco – RAG vs. Fine-Tuning for Chatbot Enhancement: Empirical Study with a Real-World Public Services Use Case |
| 16:15–16:35 | Sahil Kale – Analysing Temporal Self-Knowledge Signals in Large Language Models |
| 16:35–17:00 | Free time |
| 17:00–19:00 | Guided city tour |
| 19:30–22:30 | Conference dinner |
Day Two
| Time | Tuesday 13 October 2026 |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote by Will Lamb Chair: Martin Wynne Benchmarks aren’t enough: Modelling the sociolinguistic impact of LLMs |
| Session 5 — Language Resources, Tools & Community Infrastructure Chair: Erhard Hinrichs | |
| 10:00–10:20 | Flóra Földesi, Zsófia Ludányi and Noémi Ligeti-Nagy – Large Language Models as Intelligent Gateways for Rule-Based Spelling Consultancy: A Case Study on Hungarian Orthography (helyesiras.mta.hu) |
| 10:20–10:40 | Bence Sárossy – Augmenting Fake News Corpus with Information from LLMs |
| 10:40–11:00 | Tamás Váradi – WoLaLa Wiki: A Community Wiki for Research on Language and Language Models (demo) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| Session 6 — LLM Applications for Texts, Libraries & Digital Humanities Chair: Tamás Váradi | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Nicolae Rusu, Victoria Bobicev and Daniela Istrati – Evaluation of Semantic and Visual Coherence in AI-generated Journalistic Content |
| 11:50–12:10 | Adam Majczyk, Maciej Ogrodniczuk – RAG System for the Digital Library of Old Polish Prints |
| 12:10–12:30 | Berenike Herrmann and Andreas Witt – Textification. On the Role of Text as an Interface in the Age of LLMs |
| 12:30–12:45 | Closing remarks |
| 13:30–22:00 | Free time / self-funded excursion to Trsteno and Ston |
A self-funded excursion by bus will be organised for conference participants and accompanying persons on Tuesday, 13 October 2026 starting from Pile gate at 14:30.
First we’ll visit the Arboretum Trsteno, established in 15 century, which is today under auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Our next stop is the famous Ston Saltworks, established in 13 century, with ca 45 min of free time in the town of Ston (https://www.ston.hr/?l=en).
The dinner will be served in the restaurant Villa Koruna in Mali Ston, the most famous shellfish breeding area in the Adriatic.
Return to Dubrovnik is planned around 22:00.
The fee will be €75, payable on site.