Sectoragenda

The Extended Semantic Web Conference is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies.

Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant related research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role.

'The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services in which the semantics of content is made explicit and content is linked to both other content and services allowing novel applications to combine content from heterogeneous sites in unforeseen ways and support enhanced matching between users needs and content. This network of knowledge-based functionality will weave together a large network of human knowledge, and make this knowledge machine-processable to support intelligent behaviour by machines. Creating such an interlinked Web of knowledge which spans unstructured text, structured data as well as multimedia content and services requires the collaboration of many disciplines, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science.'


For more information, please visit the ESWC conference website.

The TOTh Conference brings together researchers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, users and industrialists interested in terminology and, more generally, in the links between language and knowledge, considering conceptual and technological advances in disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence.


For more information, visit the TOTh conference website.

'When arriving in a new country, effective communication in the initial stage is one of the main tools to achieve integration in that country. A newcomer will obviously not immediately be able to master the local language, which is why the services of a public service interpreter play an important role in this initial stage. Practices of how interpreters can be and are employed in such settings differ widely across Europe, and there is no European framework of minimal standards for public service interpreting (PSI) yet. This causes unequal access to basic services across the EU. An additional challenge for newcomers is the mismatch between interpreter supply and demand: speakers from languages of lesser diffusion (LLDs) are often excluded from access to essential services due to insufficient interpreters in their languages.'

To tackle these challenges, the EU-WEBPSI project aimed at:

• Developing minimum standards to guarantee high-quality language support and equal access to basic services for newcomers across the EU;
• Facilitating access to interpreting services by offering remote solutions that are more adapted to contemporary needs;
• Increasing the interpreting capacity for LLDs to make sure that more newcomers have access to essential language services and to empower the speakers of these languages.

For more information about the end-of-project symposium, please visit the EU-WEBPSI website.

NITS is the Network of Interdisciplinary Translation Studies in the Netherlands and Flanders.

The aim of the network is for researchers in Translation Studies and other related disciplines, such as Interpreting Studies, Machine Translation or Translation Technology, to come together once a year for a one-day conference to present research ideas, ongoing projects or teaching innovations that happen at the intersection of Translation Studies with other disciplines in this geographical area, and from this platform be able to collaborate further on projects, research and teaching.


For more information, visit the NITS website.

Stadtrundgang und Workshop | Auf der Suche nach deutschsprachigen Spuren in Brüssel

Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite des Goethe-Instituts Belgien.

The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB) is a biennial conference on a wide range of issues concerning bi/multilingualism. Since its inaugural conference in 1997 at Newcastle University, ISB has become the most significant conference in the field of bi/multilingualism.

ISB has a strong focus on showcasing multidisciplinary research with a representation from a range of disciplines at every conference, including education, linguistics, neuroscience, psychology and sociology.

The aim of ISB is to bring together bi/multilingualism researchers from all around the globe to advance the theoretical and applied research in bi/multilingualism, and to support bi/multilingualism practices in the community.

The theme of the 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB15) is 'The Different Faces of Bilingualism', a deliberately broad theme, aimed at creating a space for researchers working on different faces of bilingualism, including different research areas, methodological approaches, and populations.

'In line with this aim, we have invited plenary speakers who represent different faces of bilingualism, from sociolinguistics to education, psycholinguistics to translation.'

This broad theme reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the organizing committee, based in a center of excellence for neuroscientific research into language and bilingualism. 
To capitalize on this expertise, ISB15 will feature The Bilingual Brain Day, which is intended to share the core insights of the field with researchers of other areas and to discuss the state-of-the-art with researchers in the field. 
The conference theme also aims to promote inclusivity, inspired by its location in the Spanish Basque Country, one of the few regions in the world that has successfully revived its bilingual heritage across all aspects of society.


For more information, please see the conference website.

This conference explores the intersections of language, technology, and society.

'In today’s world, marked by rapid technological advancements, social transformations, and global challenges, linguistics plays a pivotal role in understanding how we connect with our environment.

The theme for TABU Dag 2025, 'Linguistics in a Fast-Changing Society,' reflects the power of language in shaping and being shaped by communication, technology, and social interaction. With the rise of digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and the need for responsive communication, our understanding of language is evolving faster than ever before.'




Meer informatie: https://www.tabudag.nl

Three speakers will talk about how they tackle real-world challenges in knowledge retrieval, software security, and business automation with NLP:

• Laurent Sorber (Superlinear) will teach us how to build a modern RAG pipeline that actually retrieves what matters.
• Berg Severens (Aikido Security) will demonstrate how LLMs can detect and prioritize vulnerabilities in code far better than hard-coded rules.
• Wouter Dobbels (Silverfin) will show how multiclass classification can help companies streamline their accounting.

For more information, visit the Belgium NLP Meetup page.

'A key issue in the study of language policy and planning is to describe – theoretically and practically – the language to be promoted or protected.

This often presupposes an essentialist perspective of language: languages are seen to exist as uniform or mono-dimensional entities. It is considered possible to determine what counts and does not count as part of a particular language, with sociolinguistic variation considered to be disturbing and language contact seen as potentially damaging.

Notions of purity are invoked implicitly or explicitly to distinguish between what is core to a language and what is peripheral.

What appears uncontroversial in everyday life is highly problematic in the systemic and social study of linguistics.'


This conference seeks to delve deeper into the fundamental nature of this problem by focusing on minoritized and minority languages.


For more information, please visit the Purity in Minoritised Languages conference website.

This conference brings together specialists in the disciplines of terminology, terminography, computational terminology, specialized lexicography, computational linguistics, Machine Learning, NLP and Knowledge Representation in order to share methodological reflections on design approaches, representation formats and management systems of the digital terminology collected in the terminological resources.


'The professional responsible for designing and populating terminological resources is the terminographer. Producing new terminological resources requires eclectic research skills. The design and implementation phases involve a thorough preliminary analysis of the information needs of the potential user and an accurate assessment of the structural requirements of the resource.

At the same time, the use of ontologies and knowledge graphs is becoming increasingly important in terminology management, particularly with the integration of advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs). These tools contribute to more structured, interconnected, and contextually aware management of terms and concepts within specific domains, enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of how terms are collected, organized, and maintained.'


For more information, please visit the MDTT 2025 conference website.

'When arriving in a new country, effective communication in the initial stage is one of the main tools to achieve integration in that country. A newcomer will obviously not immediately be able to master the local language, which is why the services of a public service interpreter play an important role in this initial stage. Practices of how interpreters can be and are employed in such settings differ widely across Europe, and there is no European framework of minimal standards for public service interpreting (PSI) yet. This causes unequal access to basic services across the EU. An additional challenge for newcomers is the mismatch between interpreter supply and demand: speakers from languages of lesser diffusion (LLDs) are often excluded from access to essential services due to insufficient interpreters in their languages.'

To tackle these challenges, the EU-WEBPSI project aimed at:

• Developing minimum standards to guarantee high-quality language support and equal access to basic services for newcomers across the EU;
• Facilitating access to interpreting services by offering remote solutions that are more adapted to contemporary needs;
• Increasing the interpreting capacity for LLDs to make sure that more newcomers have access to essential language services and to empower the speakers of these languages.

For more information about the end-of-project symposium, please visit the EU-WEBPSI website.

De Literaire Vertaaldagen is een jaarlijks tweedaags evenement rond nieuwe ontwikkelingen in het literair vertaalvak.

'Thema van deze vijfde editie is Gluren bij de buren: in een boekenmarkt die onder hoge druk staat en die onderhevig is aan ingrijpende veranderingen, kan een brede blik naar buiten ons waardevolle nieuwe inzichten geven, helpen grip te krijgen op de uitdagingen waarvoor wij ons gesteld zien, en eenvoudigweg een welkome afleiding bieden van onze dagelijkse beslommeringen.'

'Zowel in de lezingen als in de workshops kijken we letterlijk en figuurlijk buiten onze (taal)grenzen en de gebaande paden. Tijdens het symposium worden de relatief onbekende terreinen van het Zuid-Afrikaanse en Koreaanse letterenveld verkend, de routes waarlangs Nederlandse en Vlaamse werken hun weg naar het buitenland vinden, en het aan literair vertalen verwante vertalen van toneel- en muziekteksten, dat de vertaler toch weer voor net andere uitdagingen stelt.'

'Op de workshopdag wordt een breed palet aan workshops aangeboden, waarbij de deelnemers naast de klassieke vertaalworkshops onder andere kunnen proeven van talen als het Fries, Afrikaans en Papiamentu en van het vertalen van liedteksten en toneelteksten. Daarnaast kunnen deelnemers zich verder verdiepen in belangrijke nieuwe vaardigheden die van de hedendaagse literair vertaler worden gevraagd, zoals het werken met AI, het inschatten van potentieel commercieel succes van een vertaling, en het presenteren van je werk aan de buitenwereld.'

Meer informatie vind je op de website van het Expertisecentrum Literair Vertalen (ELV).

SENSE is the society for English-language professionals based in the Netherlands.

Members include technical, style and copy editors, translators, proofreaders, copywriters, interpreters, journalists, teachers, researchers, academics and language/communication consultants.

The jubilee features a full day of professional development, networking and socializing, including lunch and dinner.


For more information, please visit the SENSE website.

Alle info is te vinden op de website van de Beroepsvereniging van docenten NT2 (BVNT2).

The Machine Translation (MT) Summit is a biannual international conference, which brings together people from the academic and commercial world developing MT and users of MT systems. The conference overviews state-of-the-art technologies in MT, its major contemporary trends, and practical applications.

The 19th Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), was held in Macau SAR, China in 2023.

The 20th Summit will be organized by the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva in collaboration with the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).


For more information, please visit the summit website.

This event, co-located with MT Summit 2025, brings together researchers, translators and industry stakeholders to discuss the evolving role of language technologies in creative text translation.

The workshop explores translation tools and technologies, such as CAT tools, machine translation and large language models, and their applications in creative fields such as:

• Fiction, poetry and marketing
• Video game localization
• Audiovisual translation
• Multilingual content creation on social media
• and many more...

The workshop will critically examine the synergies between human creativity and technological innovation. We will explore how tools such MT and genAI can enhance or disrupt creative workflows.


For more information, please visit the CTT 2025 website.

The conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) brings together researchers working on second language acquisition, processing, and use from across the world.

The conference covers all areas and approaches to the study of second, foreign or additional languages, bilingualism and multilingualism.

For more information, see the conference website.

Op 28 juni 2025 treedt de Europese Toegankelijkheidswet (European Accessibility Act, EAA) in werking. Die moet ervoor zorgen dat iedereen gelijke toegang heeft tot alle essentiële basisdiensten.

De verwachting is dat ondernemingen hun producten en diensten steeds toegankelijker gaan ontwerpen. Voor de gamingbranche betekent dit dat games toegankelijker moeten worden voor mensen met een beperking.

De Taalsector organiseert op donderdag 26 juni 2025 in Gent een workshop over toegankelijkheid en gamelokalisatie.

In deze workshop onderzoeken we hoe games toegankelijker kunnen worden voor mensen met een visuele, auditieve of andere beperking. We zoomen vooral in op (taal)oplossingen voor mensen met een visuele beperking.

Alle praktische en inhoudelijke informatie vind je op de website van De Taalsector.

This two-part webinar series examines how the globalization and localization industry is evolving beyond MTPE (Machine Translation Post-Editing) toward new business models, services, and skill requirements.


For more information, visit the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) website.

The ever-changing landscape of the translation and interpreting industry and academic research has led in the past 10 years to translation taking place in different places, platforms and modalities. 
It has also led to a shift in the profile of the modern translator and interpreter, who are now expected to work in different domains, with different tools, and according to different workflows. 
Academic research in translation and interpreting studies has also taken on different faces with a multiplication of different areas, tools, methodologies. 
This has strengthened our understanding of translation and interpreting phenomena in all their complexity, but this has also caused a proliferation of discourses about translation and interpreting that do not always coincide or align with those of the industry.

'In this Congress we aim to take stock of these different faces and discourses by sharing different needs and expectations, contrasting conceptual understandings of what translation and interpreting are, and reflecting on potential roles and opportunities for collaboration. The Congress will offer a fruitful forum for dialogue and collaboration between academics from different areas as well as stakeholders from across the industry.'

For more information, visit the EST Congress website.

De telefoon kan een krachtig instrument voor je taalonderneming zijn. Op twee voorwaarden: dat je er een goed gevoel bij hebt én dat je wat basistechnieken onder de knie hebt.

In deze workshop leer je plezier beleven aan het commercieel telefoneren en efficiënt doorpraten van zaken aan de telefoon.

We vertrekken vanuit de herkenbare realiteit in de taalsector en oefenen in een veilige omgeving tot het gesprek aan de telefoon helemaal soepel, prettig en efficiënt loopt.


Meer informatie vind je op de website van De Taalsector.