The 2026 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) together with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Education) and EURAC Research.    

It focuses on Natural Language Processing for the Society, covering topics from Low Resources Languages, Speech and Text, Embodied AI, Interpretability and Small Language Models for education in schools. Featuring frontal classes, evening lectures and hands-on labs, it provides both a high-level overview of the field as well as an introduction to specific topics, and practical experiences.  

SPEAKERS  

Tutorials:  

• Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)  
• Elia Bruni (University of Osnabrück) 
• Barbara Schuppler (TU Graz)  

Evening Lectures:  

• Julia Hockenmaier (University of Illinois)  
• Aurelie Herbelot (Denotation UG)  

Labs:  

• Loredana Schettino and Alessandro Vietti (Faculty of Education, UNIBZ)  
• Leonardo Bertolazzi (University of Trento)  

• Egon Stemle and Luca Ducceschi (EURAC Research)  

The detailed programme is available at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2026/program/