Program

Saturday 16/05/2026

Morning Session

9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Introduction to the workshop goals and themes

• Overview of schedule and participation format

9:30 Panel Session I - About the LANLP supporting organizations 

Presentations (10 min each + Q&A)

• SEPLN, Rafael Muñoz

• PROPOR, Pablo Gamallo

• AmericasNLP, Luiz Chiruzzo

• CLARIAH-ES, German Rigau

10.30 Coffee break & Networking

11:00 Keynote Antonio Branco

Opportunities & Challenges of LLMs for Ibero-Latin Languages

Focus: using LLMs in low-resource settings; bias and governance.

12:00 Paper Session I: Language Technologies for Low-Resource and Underrepresented Language Communities

Paper presentations  (15 min each + 5 min. Q&A) - 3 presentations

1. An Oral-first Interactive Agentic System for Guaraní Speakers
   Samantha Adorno, Akshata Kishore Moharir, Ratna Kandala

2. AI-TraLow: AI-Driven Translation for Low-Resource Languages and Cultures
   Antoni Oliver, Maite Melero, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena

3. OpenCor: Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum
   Livy Real, Valeria de Paiva

13:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00 Paper Session II: LLMs in Specialized Domains: Evaluation, Privacy, and Real-World Applications

Paper presentations  (15 min each + 5 min. Q&A) - 4 presentations

1. MedicaLLM: LLM-Driven Speech and Language Solutions for Healthcare
   Pedro José Vivancos-Vicente, Juan Salvador Castejón-Garrido, Ronghao Pan, Tomás Bernal-Beltrán, Rafael Valencia-García

2. mCS-LM: Multimodal Customer Service and Incident Management Systems Based on Large Language
   Carlos Díaz-Morales, Marcos Checa-Rubio, Tomás Bernal-Beltrán, Ronghao Pan, David Barbáchano, María del Pilar Salas-Zárate, Mario Andrés Paredes-Valverde, Rafael Valencia-García

3. SAFEWORDs: un marco reproducible para anonimización conforme al RGPD y evaluación de generación en lenguas cooficiales
   Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Manuel Palomar, Elena Lloret, Nuria Fernández

4. Exploration of Sentence Representations in Spanish BERT-like Models
   Gonzalo Herrera, Aiala Rosá and Luis Chiruzzo

15:20 Panel Session II: Strategic Network RutaMdL

LLMs: Opportunities and challenges for Iberian and Latin American NLP

- Data, HPC (Training and Inference), Experts, Evaluation, Use Cases

- Rafael Muñoz, Pablo Gamallo, Luis Chiruzzo, German Rigau

16:00 Coffee Break & Networking

16:30 Hands-on LANLP

Breakout Groups / Roundtables

• Identify collaboration opportunities and plans for follow-up (e.g., joint projects, publications, network formation)

• Small-group discussions on focused topics

• Each group summarizes insights and recommendations

17:15 Group Reports & Discussion

• Summary from breakout sessions

• Reflections from organizers and invited experts

17:45 Concluding Remarks & Next Steps

18:00 Closing