CLaDA-BG 2026 Conference: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)

CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modelling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history.

This is the fourth edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modelling and linking data for research.

Topics of Interest
The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support, applications
• Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trustworthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H
• Knowledge Modelling and Elicitation for digital SS&H
• Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data, etc.
• The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research
• Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H
• Knowledge-modelled and linked applications in SS&H
• Large Language Models for DH
• Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modelling and Linking for language, culture and history

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 03.05.2026 (Extended)
Notification of acceptance: 24.05.2026
Final Submission: 20.06.2026
Conference: 25-26.06.2026