Keynote speakers

Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute & University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr. Simon Krek is a researcher in computational linguistics, digital lexicography, and language technology infrastructure. He serves as a Senior Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Jožef Stefan Institute and heads the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana.

With a career dedicated to bridging traditional linguistics and cutting-edge language technology, Dr. Simon Krek has driven major advancements in both national and European research infrastructures.

He was the coordinator of the Horizon 2020 funded ELEXIS (European Lexicographic Infrastructure) project, establishing global standards for digital dictionary data. Building on this legacy, he now coordinates the successor Horizon Europe project, ELEXAI (European Lexicographic Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence). This innovative initiative creates a two-way synergy between AI and human expertise: it integrates high-quality lexicographic data into large language models to optimise multilingual AI performance, while simultaneously leveraging LLMs to enrich and update traditional lexicographic resources.

Dr. Simon Krek’s leading role in major collaborative initiatives across corpus linguistics includes the joint development of foundational Slovene text resources like the Gigafida corpus, alongside his active involvement in prominent European networks such as the ENeL, PARSEME, and UniDive COST Actions, as well as the international Universal Dependencies framework.

Through his work on multilingual language resources and research infrastructures, Dr. Simon Krek continues to shape the field of natural language processing and promote linguistic diversity and cross-lingual research.

Tomas Krilavičius, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (to be announced)