June 15–17 2026, Bolzano
June 15-17 : Libera Università di Bolzano, NOI Techpark, Via Alessandro Volta 13/A.
June 17: EURAC Research, Viale Druso 1.

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The Lectures on Computational Linguistics is an event organized yearly under the umbrella of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale).  

The 2026 edition of AILC Lectures is organized together with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Engineering (Raffaella Bernardi) and Faculty of Education (Alessandro Vietti), in collaboration with EURAC Research (Luca Ducceschi). The 2026 edition is organized with a view on the impact of Computational Lingustics and Natural Language Processing for the Society. 

The event is primarily addressed to graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and Master students, but welcomes all those who might be interested in the topics. Participation is free but subject to registration > (up to 150 places available) and membership to AILC. 

The Lectures include: 

• Three 2-hours tutorials on 
• Three 2-hours hands-on laboratories
• Two Student Poster Sessions  
• Two evening lectures 

Program

Monday 15.06 – NOI Techpark 

• 9:00–9:30: Welcome and opening
• 9:30–11:30: Tutorial: Developing ASR Systems for Conversational Speech Transcription and Analysis – Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz) 
• 11:30-12:00: Break
• 12:00-13:30: Students Poster Session
• 13:30-15:00: Lunch Break
• 15:00–17:00: Lab I: Recognition in Spontaneous Speech – Loredana Schettino e Alessandro Vietti (Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, UNIBZ)
• 17:00–17:30: Break
• 17:30–18:30: Evening Lecture: Small Language Models for Education – Aurélie Herbelot (Denotation UG)
• 18:30: Welcome drink

Tuesday 16.06 – NOI Techpark 

• 9:30–11:30: Tutorial II:From Vision Language Models to Embodied AI –Elia Bruni (University of Osnabrück)
• 11:30–12:00: Break
• 12:00–13:30: Students Poster Session
• 13:30–15:00: Lunch Break
• 15:00–17:00: Lab II: Mechanistic Interpretability – Leonardo Bertolazzi (University of Trento) 
• 17:00–17:30: PAUSA 
• 17:30–18:30: Conferenza serale: NLP: Where We Came From, Where We Are, Where We Are/Could Be Going – Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois)
• 20:00: Social Event 

Wednesday 17.06 – EURAC Research, Auditorium 

• 9:00–11:00: Tutorial: Minority Groups and Low Resource Languages – Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) 
• 11:00–11:30: Break
• 11:30–13:30: Lab III: Data Curation and Speech-to-Text Fine-Tuning for Minority Languages – Egon Stemle e Luca Ducceschi (EURAC Research) 
• 13:30–15:00: Lunch Break

Student's Presentation 

Students are invited to present their ongoing research during two Student Sessions. Interested participants are required to submit a 500-word abstract in English to ailc.lectures@gmail.com within the deadline of the 16th of May. Acceptance notices will be sent by the 23rd of May. 

Registration 

Registration closes on May 27th or earlier, if the max nr of places is reached. The registration> will be open soon. 

Scientific Committee 

Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen)
Francesco Cutugno (University of Napoli Federico II)
Felice Dell'Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR – Pisa)
Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) 

Local Organisers 

 Raffaella Bernardi (Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Alessandro Vietti (Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Luca Ducceschi (EURAC Research) 

Organising Committee 

Simone Ciciliano (Faculty of Engineering, UNIBZ)
Domenico De Cristofaro (Faculty of Education, UNIBZ)
Umberto Domanti (Faculty of Engineering, UNIBZ)
Egon Stemle (EURAC Research)
Loredana Schettino (Faculty of Education, UNIBZ) 

Contact: ailc.lectures@gmail.com