Organized Conferences, Workshops, etc.

• Conferences
• Workshops
• Shared tasks
• Recent participating committees and reviews
• Recent talks and presentations

Conferences

• The 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), 2019

  The 15th KONVENS “Bridging the gap between NLP and human understanding”, October 9–11, 2019, at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Organized in cooperation with Stefan Evert (in chief), Andreas Blombach, Natalie Dykes, Paul Greiner, Tim Griebel, Philipp Heinrich, Thomas Proisl, and Tanja Schorr; Proceedings edited by The Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology. –> [The 15th KONVENS (2019) Proceedings, bib].

Workshops

• The GlobaLex 2020 Workshop Linked Lexicography @ LREC 2020

  The GlobaLex 2020 Workshop Linked Lexicography. In conjunction with The 12th Edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseílle, France, on May 12, 2020. Organized in cooperation with Ilan Kernerman (in chief), K Dictionaries, Tel Aviv, Israel, Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, John McCrae, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, Sina Ahmadi, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain. –> [GlobaLex 2020 Proceedings, incl. TIAD 3 (2020) –>LREC net, –>ACL net, bib].

Shared tasks

• The 5th “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD) @ LREC 2022

  The 5th shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD 2022) “Linking Bilingual and Multilingual Lexicographic Resources”, as Track 2 of GlobaLex 2022 Workshop: Linked Lexicography @ LREC 2020 in Marseílle, France, on June 20, 2022. Organized in cooperation with Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain, and with Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries – Lexicala, Tel Aviv, Israel. –> [GlobaLex 2022 Proceedings, incl. TIAD 5 (2022) –>LREC net], –>ACL net, [pdf, bib].

• The 4th “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD) @ LDK 2021

  The fourth shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD 2021). In conjunction with the third conference on “Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2021)” in Zaragoza, Spain, on September 1, 2021. Organized in cooperation with Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain, and Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries, Tel Aviv, Israel. –> TIAD 4 (2021) proceedings are available at –>CUER net as part of LDK Workshops and Tutorials 2021, edited by Sara Carvalho and Renato Rocha Souza.

• The 3rd “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD) @ LREC 2020

  The third shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD 2020) “Linking Bilingual and Multilingual Lexicographic Resources”, as Track 2 of GlobaLex 2020 Workshop: Linked Lexicography @ LREC 2020 in Marseílle, France, on May 12, 2020. Organized in cooperation with Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain. –> [TIAD 3 (2020) – Baseline Word2Vec]. –> [GlobaLex 2020 Proceedings, incl. TIAD 3 (2020) –>LREC net, –>ACL net, bib].

• GermEval 2019 (EmpiriST-lemmatization 2019) @ KONVENS 2019

  GermEval 2019 shared task on the lemmatization of German web and social media data. Erlangen, Germany, October 8, 2019. In conjunction with The 15th KONVENS “Bridging the gap between NLP and human understanding”, October 9–11, 2019, at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Organized in cooperation with Stefan Evert, Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich and Thomas Proisl (all, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany). –> [Data on GitHub].

• The 2nd “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD) @ LDK 2019

  The second shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD 2019). In conjunction with the second conference on “Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)” in Leipzig, Germany, on May 20, 2019. Organized in cooperation with Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain and Ilan Kernerman, K Dictionaries, Tel Aviv, Israel. –> [TIAD 2 (2019) Proceedings –>CUER net, bib]

Recent participating committees and reviews (selected)

• LREC 2026 – The 15th Edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Palau de Congressos de Palma, Palma, Mallorca, Spain. 11–16 May 2026. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• LDK 2025 – The 5th Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, University of Naples, Italy, 9-11 September 2025. [Program committee & Reviewer].

• COLING-LREC 2024 – The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino, Italy, 20–25 May 2024. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• I Xeira CLARIAH-GAL. Instituto da Lingua Galega, Facultade de Filoloxía da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2 May 2024. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• ASIALEX 2023 – The 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2023), “Lexicography, Artificial Intelligence, and Dictionary Users”. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 22–24 June 2023. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• LDK 2023 – The 4th Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, University of Vienna, Austria, September 12–15, 2023. Program committee & Reviewer].

• EMNLP 2022 – The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi, December 7th–11th, 2022. [Reviewer].

• AACL-IJCNLP 2020 – The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Taiwan, Taipei, November, 20th–23rd, 2022. [Reviewer].

• EURALEX 2022 – The XX EURALEX International Congress, “Dictionaries and Society”. Department of Lexical Studies, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany, 12–16 July 2022. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• LREC 2022 – The 13th Edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseílle, France, June 20–25, 2022. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

• GLOBALEX 2022 @ LREC 2022, Marseílle, France, June 20–25, 2022. [Track co-organizer, Program committee & Reviewer].

• AACL-IJCNLP 2021 – The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Bangkok, Thailand, August 1–6, 2021. [Reviewer], [Proceedings].

• LDK 2021 – The 3rd Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, University of Zaragoza, Spain, June 14–16, 2021. [Workshop co-organizer, Program committee & Reviewer].

• NAACL 2021 – The 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technologies, Mexico City, Mexico, June 6–11, 2021. [Reviewer], [Proceedings].

• EACL 2021 – The 2021 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Kiev, Ukraine, April 19–23, 2021. [Reviewer], [Proceedings].

• AACL-IJCNLP 2020 – The 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Suzhou, China, December 4–7, 2020. [Reviewer], [Proceedings].

• European Language Grid – The second annual ELG conference. Berlin, Germany, December 1–3, 2020. [Participating].

• EMNLP 2020 – The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Dominican Republic, November, 16–20, 2020. [Reviewer], [Proceedings].

• GLOBALEX 2020 @ LREC 2020, Marseílle, France, May 12, 2020. [Track co-organizer, Program committee & Reviewer].

• LREC 2020 – The 12th Edition of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marseílle, France, May 11–16, 2020. [Scientific committee & Reviewer].

Recent talks and presentations (selected)

• Kabashi, Besim. 2025. The foundation of language planning: Integrating terminology strategies – Albanian, The 12th EAFT Terminology Summit 2025 – The 12th European Association for Terminology (EAFT) Summit 2025 Terminology Planning in Europe. November 27–29, 2025. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2025. [Thank you AI …!], Semantic Annotation, Dictionaries and AI 2025 – “Semantic Annotation, Dictionaries and AI”. Co-organizer. October 9–10, 2025. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2025. Verb-Noun Collocations in the Albanian Language, ASIALEX 2025 – The 18th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2025), “Traditionality and creativity in the era of AI”. September 11–13, 2025. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2025. The most common features of the Albanian language used in computer-mediated communication – an overview based on corpus data, CMC-12 2025 – The 12th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora. September 4–5, 2025. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2025. Soll ich ein Korpus bauen, oder nicht? Kann ich es? Lohnt es sich? Aufbau von Korpora der albanischen Sprache, [Invited Lecture, IDS 2025]. Vortrag im Rahmen des Linguistischen Forschungskolloquiums / Lecture at the Linguistic Research Colloquium. June, 5, 2025. Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS). Mannheim, Germany.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2024. Linguistic corpora and multimodality. Conferencia plenaria. Humanités numériques 5.0: Lexicografía Digital (HumNum 5.0), Seminario Internacional. October 24, 2024. Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2024. Using multimodal corpora in linguistic research: a tutorial for beginners. Seminario práctico. Humanités numériques 5.0: Lexicografía Digital (HumNum 5.0), Seminario Internacional. October 24, 2024. Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

• Zilio, Leonardo, and Besim Kabashi. 2024. Using Neural Machine Translation for Normalising Historical Documents. The XXI EURALEX International Congress: “Lexicography and Semantics”. October 8-12, 2024. Institut za hrvatski jezik, Dubrovnik Cavtat, Croatia.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2024. Noun-adjective collocations in the Albanian language. The 17th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2024), September 13, 2024. Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2024. Lexical Variation of the Albanian Language Used in Computer-Mediated Communication and the Challenge for Processing.. The 11th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora, September 4–7. Nice, France: Université Côte d’Azur.

• Khan, Fahad, Maxim Ionov, Christian Chiarcos, Laurent Romary, Gilles Serasset, and Besim Kabashi. 2024. On Modelling Corpus Citations in Computational Lexical Resources. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation. May 20-25, 2024. Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy.

• Christian Chiarcos / Besim Kabashi. 2023. FrAC (Frequency, Attestation, and Corpus), [W3c community day @ LDK2023]. Abstract, Ontology-Lexica Community Group. LDK 2023 – The 4th Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. University of Vienna, Austria, September 12–15, 2023.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2023. The lexis of the Albanian language used in social media: An investigation. The 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2023), June 24, 2023. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2022. Lexicographers, corpora and computers. Texas Symposium on Lexicography, March 29, 2022. The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2022. Teaching in EMJMD-EMLex: A6: Computational Lexicography. Informational Session on the European Master in Lexicography program, March 28, 2022. The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2021. “Words, words, … : Usage and Constructions”. International Congress of Albanian Studies, October 26, 2021, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania, Tirana, Albania.

• Kabashi, Besim. 2021. “A Corpus Network of Albanian”. Interdisziplinäre und transnationale Aspekte und Perspektiven der Albanologie: Konferenz in Gedenken an Professor Wilfried Fiedler, October 1, 2021. University of Jena, Germany.

• Proisl, Thomas, Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich, Besim Kabashi, and Stefan Evert. 2020. “EmpiriST corpus 2.0: Adding normalization, lemmatization and semantic tags to a German web and social media corpus.” In 42. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) 2020. Universität Hamburg, Germany. [Abstract, pdf, Poster, pdf, bib].

• Blombach, Andreas, Natalie Dykes, Stefan Evert, Philipp Heinrich, Besim Kabashi, and Thomas Proisl. 2019. “A New German Reddit Corpus (A Report on Work in Progress).” Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019). Erlangen, Germany. [bib]

• Proisl, Thomas, Natalie Dykes, Andreas Blombach, Philipp Heinrich, and Besim Kabashi. 2019. “NLP for German CMC Texts: Tokenization, POS Tagging, and a New Gold Standard for Lemmatization.” Presentation at Annotation of Non-Standard Corpora. Bamberg. [bib].