Events
19.11.2025
Large Language Models and the Estonian Language: the State of the Art
Schedule:
14.00-14.15 Prof. Maciej Eder, Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities (University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics)
Introduction of DigiTS + Welcome to the LLM Extravaganza!
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 Assoc. Prof. 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 Prof. Mark Fišel, Professor of Natural Language Processing (University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science)
Large Models, Small Data
The event took place at Jakobi 2 & Zoom. The presentations were not recorded but you can access the slides above.
The event was co-organised by the Center of Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS) and Language Data Research Infrastructure (KeTA).
Photos: DigiTS.
22.04.2025
DigiTS kick off event
The kick off event took place at the White Hall, University of Tartu Museum on April 22, 2025.
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.
