Language in the age of artificial intelligence

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology together with the Lithuanian Museum of Education are organizing a scientific research conference that is aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application that change the turn of scientific research, methodological approaches and, at the same time, increase the access of the society to information in native and foreign languages. 

We are cordially inviting specialists and researchers in the area of Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies or other to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in the research of the Lithuanian language, didactics, the impact of machine translation on language, its ethical use, postediting and other. Moreover, debating about the impact of artificial intelligence and global society on the status of the state language and its prestige is planned as well as how to increase the access to language resources of the native language and contribute to the development of information and knowledge society.   

A parallel section in the English language will be also held with interpreting into the Lithuanian language, thus, researchers from other countries are also invited to take part and share their insights about challenges of the artificial intelligence on their native languages, its impact on the global society and research results obtained. 

The conference is supported by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language and the programme for the increase of the Lithuanian language prestige.  

The conference will take part on the 13–14th of June, 2024 at Kaunas University of Technology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (A. Mickevičiaus g. 37) and the Lithuanian Museum of Education (Vytauto pr. 52). 

AI applications in research of Lithuanian and other low-resourced or less-resourced languages; 

AI use in Lithuanian and other low-resourced language teaching; 

Impact of AI and global society for the status and prestige of the language; 

Aspects, trends and expectations of the use of modern languages in media and academic discourse; 

Impact of AI on machine translation, post-editing, ethics and other. 

Abstract submission until 30 April, 2024.

Notification of acceptance on 5 May, 2024. 

Registration of participants until 10 May, 2024.

Fee payment until 10 May, 2024 m.

Final programme until 20 May, 2024 m.

Participation fee – 80 euros.

All participants are invited to submit their abstracts by 30 April, 2024. 

The authors will be notified about the acceptance of their abstracts by 10 May, 2024.

Time for presentations – up to 20 min. Q&A – up to 5 min.