Leonie Cornips

(Introducing Limburgish)

Leonie Cornips is professor of Language Culture in Limburg at Maastricht University and a researcher at the Meertens Institute (KNAW). Her work focuses on multilingualism, identity, and language policy. She has published widely on how speakers use dialects and languages to shape social belonging, and she actively contributes to public debates about the cultural and political significance of Limburgish.

Peter Gilles

(Digital Tools for Luxembourgish)

Peter Gilles is full professor of linguistics at the Department of Humanities at the University of Luxembourg. His research has consistently aimed to explore and deepen our understanding of language variation, phonetics, and digital speech processing, particularly with a focus on low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish.

Pigga Keskitalo

(The Sámi Languages, Digital Resources, and Revitalisation Efforts)

Pigga Keskitalo works as a professor of education, specifically in Arctic Perspectives in education. She works with the research projects that concern teacher education, Sami language and teaching, Sami perspectives in teaching, indigenous research methodology and research ethics and in addition to, distance learning and digitization of teaching.

Hedwig Sekeres

(A Massive Open Online Course for Gronings: Its design and its learners)

Hedwig Sekeres is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, where together with Centrum Groninger Taal & Cultuur she developed a course Gronings (Low Saxon). Her previous work includes Woordwaark, a Low Saxon corpus for the Groningen variety.  She is currently researching how adults acquire Gronings later in life.

Yves Scherrer

(What can machine translation and language identification tell us about linguistic variation?)

Yves Scherrer is an associate professor in NLP in the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. Until summer 2023, he was a university lecturer in Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on computational dialectology, language variety normalization, and neural machine translation.

Zef Mertens & Stefanie Steinhauer-Ramachers

(Initiatives for the revitalization of Limburgish)

Cultural anthropologist Zef Mertens and psycholinguist Stefanie Steinhauer-Ramachers introduce the Hoes veur ‘t Limburgs, the institute for the Limburgish language in the Netherlands, founded in 2023. The Hoes veur ‘t Limburgs promotes multilingualism and strengthens the position of Limburgish by providing lectures and workshops, developing (educational) products, advising partners and institutions concerning language policy, and contributing to research.