Language in the age of artificial intelligence

How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Our Language and Scientific Methods? The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology invites academics and practitioners to discussions on the impact of AI on the Lithuanian and other languages, its influence on language status, and changes in language usage. The event, taking place on May 8-9, 2025, in Kaunas, will provide an opportunity to exchange insights and strengthen the scientific community.

Conference publications

The scientific conference “Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” took place on 8-9 May, 2025.

We are delighted and grateful to all those who were a part of it!

We invite you to submit scientific articles based on the conference presentations.

We will publish selected linguistic articles in the journal “Studies about Languages”. Other selected articles will be published in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings.

Articles can be submitted until 1 September by email: ltech@ktu.edu

The template for the articles in Lithuanian and in English is available on this website.

Template of an Article

Peer review process

Two independent experts will review each submitted manuscript. The identity of the reviewers and the authors will not be disclosed to either party.

Peer-reviewers assess if the submitted article is an original work that has not been published previously, complies with scientific ethics and is methodologically valid. Peer-reviewers assess whether the article can be accepted for publication without any further changes, whether proofreading is needed or whether the manuscript should be rejected.

Book of abstracts

Conference materials

Conference Programme | 8–9 May

Book of Abstracts

About the Conference

Banner: Abstract submission and Registration

About the Conference

The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology is organizing a research conference aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application changing the turn of research.

We cordially invite specialists and researchers in the area of Philology, Educational Sciences, language and technologies to share their experience and insights and take part in resourceful discussions about the use of artificial intelligence in the research of language, didactics, impact of machine translation and AI on language and AI ethics questions.

The conference will take part on the 8–9th of May, 2025 at Kaunas University of Technology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (A. Mickevičiaus g. 37).

Summer school

As part of the conference events on the 8^th of May, 2025, the 5th EMT Train the Trainer Summer School, titled Audiovisual Translation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: changes, challenges, possibilities is jointly organized by the Research Group of Language and Technologies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), together with the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission (DGT) (Vilnius Field Office), and in collaboration with the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, (Slovakia), the University of Vienna (Austria), Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP) (Portugal) and Università degli studi Internazionali di Roma, UNINT (Italy). More about the event is available under the link.

Topics

Usage and application of AI in research and teaching of Lithuanian and other low-resourced or less-resourced languages;
Possibilities and challenges of using AI in audiovisual translation;
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.

Important dates

Abstract submission extended until 14 April, 2025
Notification of acceptance on 18 April, 2025
Registration of participants until 21 April, 2025
Fee payment until 1 May, 2025
Final programme until 5 May, 2025

Participation fee

Participation fee – 120 euros.

Co-author attending the conference – 40 euros.

Co-author not attending the conference – 20 euros (will receive a certificate).

Audience member – 20 euros (will receive a certificate).

Props:

Name of bank: AB SEB bankas
Address: Gedimino pr. 12, LT-01103 Vilnius, Lithuania
Swift: CBVILT2X
Account number: LT387044060003104481
Company name: Kaunas University of Technology
Address: K. Donelaičio st. 73, LT-44029 Kaunas, Lithuania
Payment purpose: LTech conference fee Surname, Ko039