Text Technology/Digital Linguistics Colloquium HS 2026

Time & Location: every 2 weeks on Tuesdays 10:15-12:00 in room BIM 4-033.

Online participation via the MS Teams Team CL Colloquium is also possible.

Colloquium Schedule

15.09.2026	Mark Fišel	Jana Massoud & Sina Ahmadi
29.09.2026	Ahmed A. Ali	Tanja Samardžić
13.10.2026	Anna Bondar	Michelle Wastl
27.10.2026	Cui Ding	Bastian Rieck
10.11.2026	Jan Brasser	Jason Armitage
24.11.2026	Kirill Semenov	Andrianos Michail
08.12.2026	Longqian Ming	Gerard Sant Muniesa

15 Sep 2026

Mark Fišel

TBA

Jana Massoud & Sina Ahmadi: Towards a quantitative language resource index

The term "low-resource" in NLP is too vague to be useful. This talk presents our project that aims to move towards a quantitative resource index that scores 8,168 languages across six key dimensions (from corpora and models to dictionaries). Our analysis reveals a heavily skewed landscape where 75% of the world's languages are entirely absent from contemporary NLP. We validate this index against downstream tasks, offering a new, fine-grained tool to accurately situate languages in the tech ecosystem and identify where resources are needed most.