Old news | Verena Blaschke

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29–30 June 2026: I’ll be at ICLaVE to talk about Bavarian text/speech processing
25 June 2026: I passed my Ph.D. defense!
11–12 June 2026: I’ll participate in the workshop on Sociocultural complexity and language technology at the University of Luxembourg
13–16 May 2026: I’ll be at LREC, where my coauthors and I will present work on variation in NLP from a sociolinguistic perspective, on indirect question answering, and on information asymmetry across language varieties
29 April 2026: I gave a guest lecture about dialect NLP at the University of Stuttgart
24–29 March 2026: I’ll be at EACL to co-organize the VarDial workshop!
4 February 2026: Invited talk at Saarland University (Phonetics) about text/speech processing for dialects

12 December 2025: I’m giving a talk about dialect text/speech processing at the University of Groningen (GroNLP)
26 November 2025: I’m giving an online guest lecture about dialect NLP at SKKU
23 October 2025: I’m in a tv segment on our dialect ASR work! It was also recently featured in an AI for Media Network post and the press release got picked up by outlets like Der Spiegel.
October 2025: I’m giving invited talks about dialect NLP at the University of Hamburg (Data Science group) and at MunichNLP
17–21 August 2025: I’ll be at Interspeech to present our dialect ASR dataset and analyses
27 July–1 August 2025: I’ll be at ACL to discuss the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer
20–25 July 2025: I’ll be at the Dagstuhl seminar on linguistics & language models
30 April–4 May 2025: I’m at NAACL to give a keynote on dialect NLP at the WNUT workshop
26–27 March 2025: I was at the HumanCLAIM workshop
19–24 January 2025: I’ll be at COLING where my coauthors and I will present work on dialect NLP in the context of pixel-based models and of information retrieval at the main conference, and work on improving dialectal slot and intent detection with auxiliary tasks and/or other data- or model-centric approaches at VarDial

10 December 2024: I’m giving an invited talk at the University of Passau (Chair for Multilingual CL) about dialect NLP
23 September 2024: I’m giving an invited talk at ITU Copenhagen (NLPnorth) about dialect NLP
11–16 August 2024: I will be at ACL to talk about dialect speakers’ opinions on dialect NLP technologies
8–11 July 2024: I’m at ICLaVE to discuss challenges in processing non-standard language varieties
Jun–Sep 2024: I’m spending the summer in Copenhagen to intern at Apple’s ML research group
20–25 May 2024: I will be at LREC-COLING to present two dialectal datasets for dependency parsing and NER with my colleagues
17–22 March 2024: I’ll be at EACL to discuss the effect syntactic variation has on slot and intent detection

28–30 September 2022: I presented a UI for explainable graph-based ML models at ILP
1 August 2022: I started my PhD!