Call for Applications

International Summer School

DIGITAL HUMANITIES: UNDER-RESOURCED LANGUAGES AND ARMENIAN

|6–10 July 2026, Yerevan, Armenia|

The international summer school “Digital Humanities, Under-Resourced Languages and Armenian” (6–12 July 2026, Yerevan) brings together experts in Digital Humanities (DH), Natural Language Processing (NLP), linguistics and other social sciences and humanities to provide intensive, practice-oriented training focused on under-resourced languages, with a strong emphasis on Armenian and language variation.

The initiative is embedded in the momentum of the ANR DALiH – Digitising Armenian Linguistic Heritage project and builds on previous international events and initiatives including “Digital Armenian” (INALCO, Paris, 2019), “Processing Language Variation: Digital Armenian” (LREC 2022) and Crisis and Memory: Digital Oral History Laboratory (IAE, Yerevan, 2025-2030).

Who Can Apply

This summer school is open to graduate students, researchers, specialists in social sciences and humanities and professionals from relevant fields.

Program Overview

The program will feature hands-on workshops, interactive sessions, public lectures, and project presentations, enabling participants to apply the resources and methods directly to real-world data (Armenian and other under-resourced languages). The language of instruction will be English.

Core training areas include:

1. Digital corpus creation and management (FAIR principles, metadata, TEI/EpiDoc, CoNLL-U, OCR/HTR workflows),

2. Language documentation and speech processing (transcription/alignment, ASR adaptation, consent protocols),

3. Linguistic annotation and interoperability (collaborative annotation, inter-annotator agreement, format conversion TEI ↔ CoNLL-U),

4. NLP/AI for low-resource settings (lightweight model adaptation, evaluation, bias and limitations),

5. Analysis, dissemination, and sustainability (Python-based exploration/visualization, reproducibility, GitHub + Zenodo publication).

Provisional programme

5-day core programme (details forthcoming).The schedule will follow a mixed format:

● Morning + afternoon: hands-on workshops

● Evening: project presentations / public lectures

A certificate of participation will be delivered at the end of the summer school.

Participation is free.

Application requirements

Please submit one merged PDF in English including:

● CV (max. 2 pages)

● Short motivation letter (max .1 page) (fit with themes, expected benefits, learning objectives, expected outcomes, project presentation if relevant)

Applications should be submitted via https://dh4armenian.sciencesconf.org/. Please note that you must first create an account in order to submit.

Key dates

30 March 2026: Submission deadline
20 April 2026: Notification of acceptance
6–10 July 2026: Summer school

Organizers

● Victoria Khurshudyan, ANR DALiH: Digitising Armenian Linguistic Heritage (ANR-21-CE38-0006), INALCO, SeDyL (UMR 8202, CNRS–INALCO–IRD)

● Hasmik Knyazyan, Crisis and Memory: Digital Oral History Laboratory, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (NAS RA)

● Chahan Vidal-Gorène, École nationale des chartes, PSL, Calfa

Partners

● INALCO, SeDyL (UMR 8202, CNRS–INALCO–IRD)

● Crisis and Memory: Digital Oral History Laboratory, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (NAS RA)

● IT start-up Calfa

● InIdEx EFL- Empical Foundations of Linguistics

● LIPN (UMR 7030, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

● LATTICE (UMR 8094, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

● ERTIM, INALCO

● École nationale des chartes, PSL

● Huma-Num Consortium DISTAM

● TUMO Center for Creative Technologies

● Computer Science, Center of Advanced Software Technologies (CAST), Russian-Armenian University

● AUA Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature (Digilib)

Contact Information

Email: dh4armenian@sciencesconf.org

Website: https://dh4armenian.sciencesconf.org/

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/ARMInalco/

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