

19.11.2025 Large Language Models and Estonian Language: State of the Art
Schedule:
14.00-14.15 Maciej Eder, Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities (University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics)
Welcome and Introduction of DigiTS
14.15-14.45 Eleri Aedmaa, Principal NLP Engineer (Estonian Language Institute),
Kristel Uiboaed, Head of Language Data Infrastructure (Estonian Language Institute)
Advancing Language Resources: Infrastructure, Data Collection at Scale, and Benchmarking Strategy
14.45-15.15 Kairit Sirts (Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing, University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science)
Improving Estonian Language Capabilities in Open LLMs: Opportunities and Challenges
15.15-15.45 Mark Fišel (Professor of Natural Language Processing , University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science)
Large Models, Small Data
* there may be changes in the programme.
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https://tinyurl.com/llm-estonian
The event is co-organised by the Center of Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) and Language Data Research Infrastructure (KeTA), operated by the Estonian Language Institute.
22.04.2025 Kick off event
White Hall, University of Tartu Museum
Presentations:
Prof Liina Lindström “Digital Humanities at the University of Tartu”
Joshua Wilbur “DigiTS- A Vision and a Plan”
Prof Maciej Eder “Computational Stylistics: From Authorship Attribution to Assessing Language Change”














Photos: Andres Tennus
DigiTS is a project funded by the European Union under grant agreement number 101186601.
