Looking Back at SwissText 2026

SwissText 2026 has concluded, and it was a remarkable day: more than 130 participants gathered at the University of Zurich for 14 talks and dozens of posters and demos.

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the following:

• The keynote speakers, Alexandra Birch and Valentina Pyatkin.
• This year's sponsors: Google, Karakun, Supertext, SWISSDOX AG, Thomson Reuters, and UZH.ai.
• The SwissNLP association: Mark Cieliebak, Manuela Hürlimann, and Elisabeth Maier.
• The organizers and volunteers from our department and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI): Tilia Ellendorff, Yingqiang Gao, Maritina Panagiotopoulou, Gerold Schneider, Rico Sennrich, Jannis Vamvas, Michelle Wastl, Annalena Alber, Sophia Conrad, Zach Hopton, Jana Massoud, and Kirill Semenov.
• Finally, the research groups of Sarah Ebling, Rico Sennrich, and Lena Jäger at our department, together with the Hasler Stiftung, for their generous financial support.

Our thanks to everyone who helped make this year's conference a success.

We would also like to congratulate Simon Clematide on receiving this year's Best Paper Award for his co-authored paper: Data Augmentation for Historical NER: A Systematic Comparison of Lexical and LLM-based Approaches

Recordings of the keynote speeches will be available soon under: https://www.youtube.com/@swisstext9397