Do you use language technologies or language resources in creating the products and services that your company provides, or in your scientific work? Do you work in the fields of artificial intelligence, information and language technologies, robotics or computational language processing? Have you looked for language applications to integrate into your developments? Do you know enough about the platforms that provide them? Do you have business strategies for how sharing products and services can contribute to the development of your company or scientific activity?
If these questions interest you and you want to learn more, visit our seminar “European Language Data Space”!
The European Language Data Space and the Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are bringing together experts from Bulgarian technology companies, public administration and the scientific community to discuss the importance of language data for the development of language technologies and AI-based tools in Bulgaria. The event will take place on 8 October 2025 at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
Where: “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall in the Central Building of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1 “15 Noemvri” Street
When: from 9:00 to 15:30
The seminar will present the European platform for collecting, creating, sharing and reusing multilingual and multimodal data “European Language Data Space”. Various topics will be addressed, related to language data and language technologies in Bulgaria and for the Bulgarian language, as well as the difficulties and challenges in the creation, management and dissemination of language data. A welcome address on behalf of the European Commission will be delivered by Mr. Dafer Labib from the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission, who will speak about the “Digital Europe” programme and the Common European Language Data Space. On the Bulgarian side, a welcome address will be delivered by Mr. Radoslav Petkov, Chairman of the Council for Innovation, Digitalisation and New Technologies at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Through the Common European Data Space, communication and the exchange of diverse data and their metadata are becoming a reality for all European countries. Since the beginning of 2023, the European Commission has been providing new large-scale support for the sharing of language data, which is being implemented through the European Language Data Space.
The European Language Data Space aims to build a reliable and effective marketplace for the exchange of language resources in both the private and public sectors in line with the European Data Strategy. In pursuit of this goal, the European Language Data Space is organising a series of national seminars in European countries, which will demonstrate how technology companies can monetise their data in a multilingual Europe, where language technologies and AI-based applications are playing an increasingly significant role.
The event is intended for representatives of technology companies that use language resources and language technologies in the creation and distribution of products and services; for those working in the fields of artificial intelligence, information and language technologies, robotics or computational language processing; as well as for all creators of language data and language resources from the scientific community, public administration and business. The event will be held in Bulgarian and English with simultaneous interpretation for foreign participants into Bulgarian.
More information about the “European Language Data Space” project and the seminar in Bulgaria can be found here.
The event is free, but registration is required so that we can ensure appropriate arrangements for participants.
Organisers:
Institute for Bulgarian Language at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Department of Computational Linguistics)
If you have any questions, please contact us at: forum@ibl.bas.bg | pr@ibl.bas.bg
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EXPERTS DISCUSSED THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AT A SEMINAR AT THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Sofia, 8 October 2025
The national seminar “European Language Data Space” (LDS) was held at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, bringing together representatives of technology companies, scientific organisations and public institutions to discuss the role of language data in the development of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in Bulgaria and Europe.
The event was organised by the European Language Data Space (under the European Commission) and the Institute for Bulgarian Language at BAS (Department of Computational Linguistics) and is part of a series of national initiatives carried out within the framework of the “Digital Europe” programme.
A welcome address to the participants was delivered by Mr. Dafer Labib from the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission, who presented the EU’s vision for the creation of the Common European Language Data Space. On the Bulgarian side, the event was opened by Prof. Svetla Koeva, Director of the Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. Lyubomir Andreychin”, and welcome addresses were delivered by Assoc. Prof. Mario Ivanov, Scientific Secretary of the “Cultural and Historical Heritage and National Identity” Division at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Mr. Radoslav Petkov, Chairman of the Council for Innovation, Digitalisation and New Technologies at the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
During the seminar, participants discussed the challenges and opportunities related to the collection, sharing and reuse of language data. Examples were presented of the application of language technologies in business, scientific research and public administration, as well as their potential for developing products and services based on artificial intelligence.
The seminar was held in “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall in the Central Building of BAS and attracted the interest of representatives of technology companies that use language resources and technologies in the creation of products and services, as well as specialists from the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics and information technologies. Scientists, developers and representatives of the public administration involved in the creation and application of language data and resources also took part. The event was held in Bulgarian and English, with simultaneous interpretation provided for foreign guests.
