Our training school is aimed at a wide range of linguists, language researchers, and tech developers. LITHME aims to prepare these different fields for the human-machine era, so we want people from every subdisciplinary area.

The training school will be hosted by the University of Porto, Portugal. There is no tuition fee, and trainees’ travel and accommodation will be fully reimbursed after attendance at the event.

Eligibility

Eligibility is determined by our funders, the COST Association. According to the COST rules, the funded participants may have any nationality but must be primarily affiliated to an organisation (academic, public, private, NGO, etc.) based in a COST Member country or COST Near Neighbour country.

If you cannot be reimbursed then you may still be eligible to attend with a separate source of funding (e.g. your own university’s training stipend).

The training school is delivered entirely in English, and we will ask you to give a short ‘pecha kucha’ presentation summarising your own work, also in English. If you are comfortable with that, we have no other formal requirements about your English proficiency.

Application review

In assessing applications, we will prioritise postgraduates and early-career researchers, and we aim for gender balance. We will also prioritise interdisciplinary understanding and growth, for example language technology researchers who may not think of themselves as ‘linguists’ but could gain significantly from linguistic insights; and correspondingly, language researchers whose work is likely to be affected by new language technologies (we think this is most of you!).