Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ph.D.
Professor at Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)
https://www.tiagotorrent.com/about
Tiago Torrent is a Cognitive Linguist working on Natural Language Processing within the framework of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. He is head of the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab, PI of ReINVenTA and Professor of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He is a Research Productivity Grantee of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the President of the Global FrameNet Association. He served as a Guest Professor at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism and Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg.
Title of the invited lecture
Curation is also something you need: on the role of Language Resources in AI
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Prof. dr Petya Osenova
Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and IICT-BAS
petya@bultreebank.org
Dr. Petya Osenova is professor in Contemporary Bulgarian Grammar (morphology, syntax and corpus linguistics) in the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski” and senior researcher in the area of Language Technologies in the Department of Linguistic Modelling and Knowledge Processing at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Her scientific interests are in the fields of formal and computational linguistics, language resources, natural language processing, grammar-lexicon interface.
Petya Osenova was a key person in a number of EU projects, related to eLearning, Machine Translation, Language resources (EuroMatrixPlus, AsIsKnown, LTfLL, QTLeap, EUCases, among others). She is the responsible person for the language resources in CLaDA-BG – the CLARIN and DARIAH joint framework in Bulgaria. Petya Osenova is the Bulgarian representative at the CLARIN User Involvement Committee and its chair from 2026 in CLARIN-ERIC. Petya Osenova was a co-coordinator of the ParlaMint project (the first CLARIN flagship project 2020-2023) and is a participant in the follow-up OSCARS project ParlaCAP (2005 - 2007). She is the coordinator of the current CLARIN Flagship project PressMint (2026 - 2027).
Petya Osenova specialized in computational linguistics as a postdoctoral fellow in the Tuebingen University, Germany (2003) and in Groningen University, the Netherlands (2004); as a Fulbrighter at Stanford University, the USA (2010). Her postdoctoral projects were related to the construction of the BulTreeBank, the quantitative measurement of Bulgarian dialects and the Resource grammar construction for Bulgarian.
In 2018 Petya Osenova received the award of Clarivate Analytics for excellence in science research in South-Eastern Europe in the area of Social Sciences.
Title of the invited lecture
PressMint: Towards Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers
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Francesca Frontini
Researcher at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" of the CNR in Pisa
https://sites.google.com/site/francescafrontini/
Francesca Frontini is a researcher at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” (ILC-CNR) in Pisa, Italy. Her research focuses on language resources, corpus linguistics, and natural language processing, with particular attention to the creation, annotation, and interoperability of linguistic datasets. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the CLARIN research infrastructure from 2021 to 2025. She is currently involved in the European initiative LLMs4EU, where she contributes to activities on language resources and AI.