Journées LIFT2 2026: Du Terrain aux Modèles

The Journées LIFT2 2026: Du Terrain aux Modèles (From Fieldwork to Models) is a French-language workshop at the boundary of field linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational modeling. The event brings together linguists who collect primary language data and computational researchers who build formal or statistical models, facilitating genuine dialogue between these often-separate communities.

Topics include fieldwork methodology, corpus annotation practices, NLP approaches to low-resource and endangered languages, formal linguistic modeling, and the epistemological challenges of moving from raw linguistic data to theoretical representations. Field linguists, corpus builders, computational linguists, and typologists will all find the workshop relevant. LIFT2 addresses an important gap: ensuring that the richness of observed language data informs and constrains the models researchers build.

computational linguistics field linguistics corpus annotation NLP for low-resource languages linguistic modeling formal linguistics language documentation