Language Technology Webinar: Boosting Multilingual Language Models

Join the HiTZ research center’s webinar on December 4, 2025, as Goran Glavaš discusses strategies to improve multilingual language models.

The HiTZ research center is organizing a webinar series on Language Technology. The next webinar will be held on Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 15:00 CET.

Speaker: Goran Glavaš (Universität Würzburg)

Title: Improving Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models

Summary:

• Language models tend to excel in languages they see the most during (pre)training, leaving low-resource languages at a disadvantage.
• The talk will present resource-lean strategies to enhance multilingual language understanding and generation in low-resource settings.
• Techniques to improve multilingual capabilities across three major fronts will be discussed: (1) standard text-based LLMs, (2) vision-language models, and (3) code language models.

Registration: https://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea

View previous webinars and upcoming schedule: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars

Tags: Multilingual Language Models, NLP, Language Technology, Webinar, Goran Glavaš, HiTZ research center, Natural Language Processing