Events

The event focused on the first year of the DigiTS project. Prof. Maciej Eder gave an overview of first year’s activities, future plans and introduced the full time hired in the last months. All DigiTS researchers- Thiago Dumont Oliveira, Botond Szemes, Kristiina Vaik and the junior researchers Sofia Kriuchkova and Bhumika Bhattacharyya introduced their ongoing research projects. The aim of the meeting was to give an overview of our activities and first year progress to DigiTS team members and collaborators in partner institutions.

The event, intended for the DigiTS staff from associated Masters student to Professors leading the project, aimed to introduce the Estonian Research Information System, funding opportunities in Estonia, classification of publications and the importance of avoiding predatory journals. At the event, Kalmer Lauk, Analyst of Research and Development at the University of Tartu Grant Office, gave a thorough overview of the topics. Lauk’s slides can be accessed here: Estonian Research Information System (ETIS).

University of Tartu employees can browse different funding opportunities on the Pivot-RP Database, sing up for the funding opportunities newsletter and contact the UT Grant Office for more information, incl. for help with applications.

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).