AWARDS
Following its inception in the 2024 edition of the Conference, the CLIB Programme Committee will confer a Promising Young Researcher Award.
The winner will be selected according to the following criteria:
- The author should be a young researcher (possibly working in collaboration with other authors).
- The paper presented at the Conference deals with a topic related to artificial intelligence.
- The research focuses on low-resource languages.
- The author provides free access to resources and code.
Paper: Towards Frugal BERT Models for Maghrebi Dialects: Pruning and Distillation Approaches
Authors: Amina Laggoun, Youness Moukafih, Ouassim Karrakchou, Kamel Smaili
The monetary award is provided by the LERAI Foundation.
For the first time in the history of the Conference, the CLIB Programme Committee will present the Young Researcher Awards for Best Oral Presentation and Best Poster Presentation. The awards recognise outstanding scientific contributions and excellence in presentation by early-career researchers participating in the Conference.
The recipients will be selected by the CLIB Programme Committee and IBM Bulgaria representatives according to the following evaluation criteria:
- The presenter is a young researcher (including presentations co-authored with senior researchers).
- The work demonstrates scientific originality, innovation, and potential impact.
- The research exhibits a high level of scientific and technical quality, including sound methodology and well-supported conclusions.
- The presentation is clear, well structured, and effectively communicates the objectives, methods, results, and significance of the research.
- The presenter demonstrates excellent communication skills and a thorough understanding of the subject.
- The presenter effectively engages with the audience and provides clear and accurate responses during the discussion.
- For poster presentations, the poster is scientifically informative, visually well organised, and supports effective interaction with conference participants.
Best Oral Presentation
Paper: Towards Frugal BERT Models for Maghrebi Dialects: Pruning and Distillation Approaches
Authors: Amina Laggoun, Youness Moukafih, Ouassim Karrakchou, Kamel Smaili
Paper: Assessing Reading Development through Finger-Voice Span: a Comparative Study of Bulgarian and Italian
Authors: Andrea Nadalini, Claudia Marzi, Marcello Ferro, Vito Pirrelli, Maria Todorova, Valentina Stefanova, Tsvetana Dimitrova, Hristina Kukova, Svetla Koeva
Paper: Everyday Speech of Russian Students: From Field Recordings to the ESC Speech Corpus (Data Processing and Representation)
Authors: Tatiana Sherstinova, Irina Petrova, Aleksei Melnik, Sofiia Chepovetskaia, Karina Azarevich, Viktoria Deborina
Paper: Everyday Speech of Russian Students: From Field Recordings to the ESC Speech Corpus (Data Processing and Representation)
Authors: Tatiana Sherstinova, Irina Petrova, Aleksei Melnik, Sofiia Chepovetskaia, Karina Azarevich, Viktoria Deborina
Paper: Evaluating the Linguistic Properties of AI-Generated Bulgarian News Texts
Authors: Tsvetelina Stefanova, Petya Osenova
Paper: Optimizing LLM-based Discourse Analysis
in Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study of Bulgarian Euro Adoption Narratives
Authors: Dobromir Tsolyov, Keith Kiely, Georgi Goranov, Iglika Ivanova, Stanimir Dimitrov
Best Poster Presentation
Paper: Morphology-Aware Tokenization Improves Turkish Sentence Embeddings under Controlled Training Conditions
Authors: Mehmet Ali Bayram, Öner Aytaş, Tuğçe Şen
Paper: PS-CHILDES-BG: A Constituency Treebank of Bulgarian Morphemically Tokenised Child-directed Speech
Authors: Mila Marcheva-Nash, Weiwei Sun
The non-monetary awards are provided by IBM Bulgaria, whose support makes these awards possible.
