From September 25–27, 2025, the Semantics and Computational Linguistics Team (SILK Team) of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences participated in the 7th International Conference on Applied Linguistics “Languages and People” (LiTaKA) at Vilnius University.
Representing the SILK Team, Prof. Andrius Utka and Prof. Jurgita Vaičenonienė presented the team’s achievements in three projects carried out at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, related to broadly defined digital humanities.
Authors of the presentation: Roman Roszko (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS), Tomasz Bernaś (Institute of Slavic Studies PAS), Danuta Roszko (University of Warsaw), Andrius Utka (Vytautas Magnus University), Jurgita Vaičenonienė (Vytautas Magnus University).
The title of the presentation: (en) Lithuanian Text Data and Organic Instruction Corpora in the DARIAH-HUB, HIVE AI, and PLLuM Projects; (lt) Lietuviškų tekstinių duomenų ir instrukcijų tekstynai DARIAH-HUB, HIVE AI ir PLLuM projektuose; (pl) Litewskojęzyczne korpusy danych tekstowych i instrukcji organicznych w projektach DARIAH-HUB, HIVE AI ir PLLuM.
Presentation languages: Lithuanian and English.
In 2024, Prof. Jurgita Vaičenonienė and Prof. Andrius Utka of VDU were members of the SILK Team within the PLLuM project (consortium leader: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, members: Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, National Information Processing Institute – OPI PIB, Research and Academic Computer Network – NASK PIB, University of Łódź) funded by the Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland. Both were responsible for acquiring, describing with metadata, deduplicating and cleaning a portion of Baltic text data, as well as preparing organic instructions (localization, identity-based, single- and multi-turn generative, etc.) necessary during the pre- and post-training phases of the PLLuM model family. The presentation delivered to the audience sparked lively discussion about large language models and their applications. Attendees also expressed interest in the reasons why the SILK Team at ISS PAS conducts research extending far beyond the Polish language, particularly considering that such work requires not only specialized knowledge but primarily significant effort and substantial funding (energy costs).
The SILK team and CLARIN-PL have been closely collaborating with Lithuanian CLARIN-LT structures for ten years. Professor Jurgita Vaičenonienė from Vytautas Magnus University is the national coordinator of the CLARIN-LT infrastructure. Professor Sigita Rackevičienė, pictured in Figure 1, from Michael Römer University in Vilnius, is one of the partners of CLARIN-LT.
