The European Language Data Space, Institute for Bulgarian language and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are bringing together experts from the Bulgarian Industry, Public Administration and Research to discuss the importance of language data for the development of Language Technologies and AI-based tools in Bulgaria.
- digital single market | large language model | natural language processing | artificial intelligence
- Wednesday 8 October 2025, 09:00 (EEST)
- Sofia, Bulgaria
Programme
- 8 Oct 2025, 09:00 - 09:30 (EEST)Registration
- 09:05 - 09:10 (EEST)Short Welcome
Mario Ivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 09:10 - 09:20 (EEST)Opening and Welcome
Svetla Koeva, DCL-IBL, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 09:20 - 09:30 (EEST)Welcome Speech
Radoslav Petkov, Chairman of the Council for Innovation, Digitalisation and New Technologies at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- 09:30 - 10:00 (EEST)Welcome by the European Commission: The Digital Europe Programme and the Common European Language Data Space
Dhafer Lahbib, European Commission
- 10:00 - 10:30 (EEST)European Language Data Space: developing a market for language data and services and benefitting from a joint European effort
Penny Labropoulou, Athena RC, LDS Consortium
- 10:30 - 10:50 (EEST)LDS Demonstration
Penny Labropoulou, Athena RC, LDS Consortium
- 10:50 - 11:10 (EEST)Coffee Break
- 11:30 - 11:45 (EEST)The Critical Importance of Linguistic Data Spaces for Low-Resource Languages
Enabling Digital Participation, Cultural Preservation and Evidence-Based Governance
Iva Krasteva, Gate-ai
Keith Kiely, Gate-ai
- 11:45 - 12:00 (EEST)The Importance of Language Data for the Development of LT Solutions – Future Steps
Svetla Koeva, DCL-IBL, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 12:00 - 12:50 (EEST)Panel Session – Language Data and Language Technologies in Bulgaria and for Bulgarian
Svetla Koeva, DCL-IBL, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Moderator)
Veselin Georgiev, CTO, Plan A
Lora Dineva, CEO, LERAI Foundation
Ivan Ivanov, Stihia.ai
Momchil Ganchev, IBM Bulgaria - 12:50 - 13:40 (EEST)Lunch break
- 13:40 - 14:40 (EEST)Panel Session - Language Data Production and Management: Overcoming Obstacles
Sylvia Iieva, CEO, Gate-ai (Moderator)
Trayan Kosev, KGK
Hristo Dolutarov, Wisertech
Svoboda Todorova, BTA
Ivan Vankov, Iris.ai
- 14:30 - 14:45 (EEST)WASPer: Open-Source AI to Safeguard Misinformation
Bogomil Katanov, Identrics
- 14:45 - 15:30 (EEST)Coffee and Networking
Practical information
- When
- Wednesday 8 October 2025, 09:00 (EEST)
- Where
- Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSofia Center, ul. "15-ti noemvri" 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
- Who should attend
- The workshop is open to everybody and is mainly addressed to data owners and data providers, LT developers and SMEs, as well as to public administration executives, officers and partners.
- Languages
- Bulgarian, English
- Organisers
- Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Institute for Bulgarian language | European Language Data Space
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