CLARIN 2024 Keynote – Maite Melero – The Future of Language Diversity in the Age of AI

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The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN2024 is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure.

The event was organised and hosted by CLARIN ERIC, in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES. It took place between October 15 and 17 in Barcelona, Spain.

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Maite Melero leads the Machine Translation research group in the Language Technologies Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her primary research interests include unsupervised methods for machine translation, and the detection and mitigation of bias in translation models. She has a strong commitment to minority languages and accessibility and serves on the board of the Special Interest Group on Underresourced Languages (SIGUL), which organizes annual scientific workshops. Additionally, she is part of the Organizing Committee for the forthcoming UNESCO-sponsored conference, LT4All 2025. In 2006 she obtained a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with a thesis titled "Combining Machine Learning and Rule-Based Approaches in Spanish Syntactic Generation". Before joining BSC, she held research positions at the University of Barcelona, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Microsoft Research. In 2017 she co-authored the report "Language Equality in the Digital Age" commissioned by the European Parliament. In 2021, she coordinated a special issue on language technologies and language diversity published by Linguapax International. She frequently speaks on the impact of technology on the preservation of linguistic diversity and minority languages.

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Event date: [15/10/2024]

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🕑Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
00:55 – The Future of Language Diversity in the Age of AI
52:58 – Discussion and closing