Workshop

The annual autumn workshop was first organized in October 2011 by the Language Bank in Gothenburg - now Språkbanken Text. Since 2018, the event has been organized by Språkbanken. The workshop is an inspiring day about language technology and is primarily aimed at researchers who use linguistic material and who can benefit from digital tools to explore them.

This Year’s Autumn Workshop: Lived and Experienced Language – Spoken, Signed, and Written

The 2025 Autumn Workshop will take place on 17 October at KTH in Stockholm.

This year’s workshop takes its starting point in language as a lived and experienced practice – through body, voice, and text. Whether signed, spoken, or written, language expresses human connection and meaning in diverse forms. In 2025, we highlight the diversity of language as social action, perceptual experience, and technological challenge. Further details about the programme will be announced in due course.

Time: 1 PM - 5 PM. Location: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

Please register here.

Workshop Program

1:00 PM – 1:20 PM Welcome (Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, and Lars Borin, Director of the National Language Bank, National Coordinator for Swe-Clarin)

1:20 PM – 2:00 PM The Swedish Parliamentary Proceedings 1867–2023: A Research Corpus (Måns Magnusson, Uppsala University)

2:00 PM – 2:40 PM SweCSS: The Swedish Excellence Centre for Computational Social Science (Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University)

2:40 PM – 3:10 PM Coffee

3:10 PM – 3:40 PM What Does a Picture Say with a Thousand Words? Visualization of Texts on Climate Change (Maria Skeppstedt and Magnus Ahltorp, Språkbanken Sam)

3:40 PM – 4:10 PM Preparations for the Automatic Transcription of 50 Years of Parliamentary Speech Recordings (Jim O'Regan, Språkbanken Tal. Presentation in English)

4:10 PM – 4:40 PM Reflections on the Project "Rumor Mining": On How Vaccine-Related Rumors Arise and Spread on Social Media, with a Focus on the Language Technology Analysis (Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Språkbanken Text)

4:40 PM – 5:00 PM Conclusion/Discussion (Sara Stymne)

5:00 PM – Mingle