UniDive dissemination

Workshops and panels

UniDive represented at the LT4ALL 2025 (2nd Conference on Language Technologies for All), UNESCO headquaters, Paris, 24-26 February 2025, in the framework of 2022-2032 International Decade of Indegenous Languages

UniDive paper presented as poster: Agata Savary, Daniel Zeman, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Anabela Barreiro, Olesea Caftanatov, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Gülşen Eryiğit, Voula Giouli, Bruno Guillaume, Olha Kanishcheva, Stella Markantonatou, Nurit Melnik, Joakim Nivre, Atul Kr. Ojha, Carlos Ramisch, Beata Wójtowicz, Alina Wróblewska (2025) UniDive: A COST Action on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology, in the Book of Abstracts.

UniDive represented at the SIGUL 2024 (3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages)

UniDive representative at the panel discussion “In a post-ChatGPT world, what are the Challenges and Opportunities for Under-resourced Languages?”

UniDive paper presented as poster: Agata Savary, Daniel Zeman, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Anabela Barreiro, Olesea Caftanatov, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Gülşen Eryiğit, Voula Giouli, Bruno Guillaume, Stella Markantonatou, Nurit Melnik, Joakim Nivre, Atul Kr. Ojha, Carlos Ramisch, Abigail Walsh, Beata Wójtowicz, Alina Wróblewska (2024) UniDive: A COST Action on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology, in the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 372–382, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.

Training for dissemination

COST Academy “How to coordinate international research networks”, 17 May 2024 - training taken by the Action chair; experience on UniDive management shared with other COST Action leaders

COST training “Science for Policy” and “Science Diplomacy”, 27-28 June 2023 - training taken by a WG leader, reported to the Core Group

Training material

Slides, recordings and exercises from the UniDive webinar on 19 June 2023

Slides and other training material from the 1st UniDive Training School in Chișinău, Moldova on 8-12 July 2024

Dissemination to education experts and policy makers

Lucía Amoros Poveda (Spain): 3 papers in Buzón, O. (Coord.). (2023). Panorama global de las tendencias educativas en 2023. Libro de resúmenes del III Congreso Internacional de Innovación y Tendencias Educativas. Sevilla: Egregius Ediciones. (Spanish).

Paper S11-11. COST ACTION-UNIDIVE. Language technology as a response to inclusion (pp. 511-512) (English)

Paper S01-44. Some Natural Language Processing tools in teaching-learning contexts (pp. 103-104) (English)

Paper S20-18. Quantifying Linguistic Diversity since NLP (pp. 999-1000) (English)

Lucía Amoros Poveda (Spain) “Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in Language Technology for an inclusive education” - a talk (in Spanish) at the 4.0 World Forum, 19 May 2023, Buenos Aires, Argentina, see the recording, minutes 1:51:20 to 2:01:54.

Dissemination in teaching and education

Lucía Amoros Poveda (Faculty of Education, University of Murcia & ISEN Cartagena, Spain):

Event: 1st Science Fair (Santomera Campus), University of Murcia (Spain)

Stand on digital solutions helping to preserve diverse languages and varieties of Spanish

game with a purpose Juegos del español used by the stand visitors (children and their parents)

UniDive represented next to two Spanish projects: CiDiC-EI (Critical Digital Citizenship - Good practice in Early Childhood Education) and MEREVIA, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and

Innovation).

Dates: 28-29 March 2025

Details: report from the event, photos, promotional video

Lucía Amoros Poveda (Faculty of Education, University of Murcia & ISEN Cartagena, Spain)

Course: Teaching practice

Academic year: 2023-24

Public: Teachers in 15 primary schools

Details: The COST UniDive Action was be integrated through the GWAP 'Juegos del español' (Spanish Games); the teachers' role was to test the game for future use in the classroom

Lucía Amoros Poveda (Faculty of Education, University of Murcia & ISEN Cartagena, Spain)

Course: School organization and students diversity

Academic year: 2022-23.

Public: 186 students of the Grade in Primary Education - 1st course.

Details: Integration of the COST UniDive Action into this course has taken place on three occasions: in the presentation session of the subject, through the dynamics of the Fishbowl (OHCRH, 2012), and finally during the theoretical development of one of the course units

Visual evidence: photos