Publications 2026

This list includes all the publications which were created in the context of the LLM4DH project in 2026.

Book chapters

Journal articles

  • Ulčar, M., Žagar, A., Armendariz, C.S., Repar, A., Pollak, S., Purver, M., and Robnik Šikonja, M. (2026). Mono- and cross-lingual evaluation of representation language models on less-resourced languages, Computer Speech & Language, 95, 101852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2025.101852
  • Verdonik, D., and Vidinić, J. (2026). Dialoška dejanja v zasebni govorni interakciji / Dialogue acts in private spoken interaction. Slavistična revija, 74(1), 77–96. https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/4295
  • Chatterjee, N., Koloski, B., Doucet, A., Pollak, S. and Purver, M. (2026) Evaluating fine-tuned, embedding-based, and zero-shot models for aspect-based sentiment analysis in South Slavic news. Frontiers in Artificial Intelliegence. 9:1844418. doi: 10.3389/frai.2026.1844418

Conference papers

  • Arčon, T. (2026). Lost in instructions? Developing a systematic approach to instruction tuning datasets for LLMs (Tjaša Arčon). Proceedings of the 17th Postgraduate International Conference on Advancements in Computer Science and Applications PICACSA, pp. 1-9.
  • Arhar Holdt, Š. & I. Kosem. (2026). Lifelong Development of Literacy Skills. Conference on Literacy (6. – 8. July 2026). https://www.literacyeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Abstract-Book-Zbirka-povzetkov.pdf
  • Blevins, T., Mayhew, S., Suppa, M., Gonen, H., Mirkin, S., Pais, V., Dobrovoljc, K., Giouli, V., Kevin, J., Jang, E., Kim, E., Seo, J., Gialis, X., & Pinter, Y. (2026). Universal NER v2: Towards a Massively Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Benchmark. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 6609–6618). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/4qhcjikvgeda.
  • Caporusso, J., Hoogland, D., Koloski, B., Purver, M., Pollak, S., & Vintar, S. (2026). Exploring Social Bias in Slovenia: The EEC-SL Dataset. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 4019–4030). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/2pdt2x4ci6e5.
  • Debevc, L., & Martinc, M. (2026). Lost in Translation or Found in Ideology? A Robust Statistical Assessment of Political Bias and Steerability in Slovenian Large Language Models. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765800
  • Dinić, V., Kuzman Pungeršek, T., Rupnik, P., Porupski, I., & Ljubešić, N. (2026). The Dialect Gap: Model Recency Dictates Commonsense Reasoning Performance in South Slavic Varieties. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766101
  • Dobranić, F., & Pesek, M. (2026). Commerce in Columns: Automated Detection and Corpus Construction for Advertisements in Slovenski narod from 1868 to 1914. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765812
  • Dobrovoljc, K., Verdonik, D., Čibej, J., Rupnik, P., & Ljubešić, N. (2026). ROG: A Multi-Layer Manually Annotated Corpus of Spoken Slovenian. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 5701–5710). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/44np3dvumisj.
  • El Haff, K., & Tratnik, P. (2026). Annotating the Outlaw-Hero: Evaluating Large Language Models on a Folkloristic Classification Task. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766103
  • Gantar, P., Kosem, I., Arčon, T., & Krek, S. (2026). Generiranje slovarskih definicij s pomočjo velikih jezikovnih modelov. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765820
  • Gorjanc, V., Dobranić, F., Pejić, O., Šmajdek, U., Munda, T., & Fišer, D. (2026). Combining Graph Visualisation and Critical Discourse Analysis in the Study of Slovene Historical Newspapers. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765822
  • Ivačič, N., Pollak, S., Caporusso, J., Purver, M., & Lavrač, N. (2026). When Is Multilingual Transfer Beneficial for Slavic Named Entity Recognition?. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765830
  • Klemen, M., Arčon, T., Terčon, L., Robnik-Šikonja, M., & Dobrovoljc, K. (2026). Towards corpus-grounded agentic LLMs for multilingual grammatical analysis. In E. Hinrichs, J. Nivre, P. Osenova, J. Pustejovsky, & C. Zinn (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE) (pp. 136–147).
  • Knez, T. and Žitnik, S. (2026). Improving Slovene Language Models for Lexicographic Question Answering through Continued Pretraining and Instruction Fine-Tuning. Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation, pp. 114–123. https://www.slide-workshop.org/book.pdf#page=128
  • Kosem, I., & Arhar Holdt, Š. (2026). Od predloga do slovarja: Uporabniški predlogi v Slovarju sopomenk sodobne slovenščine. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766115
  • Kropivšek Leskovar, R., Tratnik, P., Doucet, A., & Robnik-Šikonja, M. (2026). Identifying Hero Types in Folk Tales Using Large Language Models. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765836
  • Lenardič, J., & Dobrovoljc Zor, K. (2026). Exploring Syntactically Parsed Corpora in Slovenian with CLARIN.SI’s noSketch Engine. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765842
  • Martinc, M., & Vreš, D. (2026). A Large-Scale Instruction-Tuning Dataset and Models for Slovenian Vision-Language Tasks. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 9420–9433). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/2e3jf6e7tcoh.
  • Munda, T., & Arhar Holdt, Š. (2026). Na poti k skladenjskemu poenostavljanju pravnih besedil: Od metrik do mejnih vrednosti. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766125
  • Munda, T., Pejić, O., Gorjanc, V., Šmajdek, U., Dobranić, F., & Fišer, D. (2026). Evaluative Framing of Collective Identities in Leading Slovene Newspapers from the Late Habsburg Empire. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765846
  • Pannitto, L., Dobrovoljc, K., & Guillaume, B. (2026). Survey of Tools for Manual Linguistic Annotation: Supporting Diversity through Interactive Exploration. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 11562–11573). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/4u4be6bbtj8e.
  • Robnik-Šikonja, M. (2026). Text readability improvement with large language models. Conference on Literacy (6. – 8. July 2026).
  • Rupnik, P., & Ljubešić, N. (2026). Beyond WER and CER: Multi-Reference Evaluation for Slovenian Speech Recognition Benchmarking. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766139
  • Šmajdek, U., Munda, T., & Marolt, M. (2026). Low-Resource Historical Named Entity Recognition in the Era of Large Language Models. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765857
  • Štebljaj, Ž. (2026). Generating Grammatical Errors Explanations for Slovene. Proceedings of the 17th Postgraduate International Conference on Advancements in Computer Science and Applications PICACSA, pp. 193-200.
  • Štebljaj, Ž., Munda, T., Arhar Holdt, Š., Robida, N., Gantar, P., & Robnik-Šikonja, M. (2026). Strojno podprta kontrola kakovosti pri pripravi učnih podatkov za slovnično pregledovanje. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766141
  • Terčon, L., & Dobrovoljc Zor, K. (2026). Evaluating the Linguistic Characteristics of the GaMS Large Language Model in Slovenian. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22765859
  • Vintar, Š., Brglez, M., & Javoršek, J. J. (2026). Building the First Comprehensive Language and Cultural Competence Benchmark for Slovene. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766145
  • Vreš, D. (2026). Robust LLM for a Less-Resourced Language. Proceedings of the 17th Postgraduate International Conference on Advancements in Computer Science and Applications PICACSA, pp. 209-216.
  • Žgank, A., Donaj, G., Kolaric, U., Sereinig, U., Koren-Zwitter, T., Boto, S., Zwitter-Grilc, S., Vidinic, J., & Verdonik, D. (2026). Developing Zila: A Spoken Language Resource for the Endangered Slovenian Gail Valley Dialect. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) (pp. 3325–3332). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/3fhhk948chhm.
  • Žgank, A., Donaj, G., Kolarič, U., Sereinig, U., Koren-Zwitter, T., Boto, S., Zwitter-Grilc, S., Vidinić, J., & Verdonik, D. (2026). Korpus Zila: Govorni vir za raziskave in razvoj avtomatskega razpoznavanja za ziljsko narečje. Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities (JT-DH-2026), Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22766091

Datasets

  • Arčon, T.; Klemen, M.; Robnik-Šikonja, M.; Dobrovoljc, K. and Terčon, L. (2026). A multilingual benchmark for evaluating metalinguistic knowledge WALS-Bench 1.0, Slovenian language resource repository CLARIN.SI.
  • Kuzman Pungeršek, T., Rupnik, P. and Ljubešić, N. (2026). South Slavic web corpus collection CLASSLA-web 2.0, Slovenian language resource repository CLARIN.SI. http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2079.
  • Terčon, L.; Dobrovoljc, K.; Klemen, M., Arčon, T. and Robnik-Šikonja, M. (2026). Corpus-grounded evaluation dataset for grammatical question answering GramQA 1.0, Slovenian language resource repository CLARIN.SI. http://hdl.handle.net/11356/2086.

Other

Large Language Models for Digital Humanities (2026). ContRAG: Contradiction-Aware Retrieval for Legal Texts [Large Language Model]. LLM4DH. https://github.com/clarinsi/LegalContradictionRAG