TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching NLP in the AI Era
T2 - 7th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing, TeachNLP 2026
AU - Skadiņa, Inguna
AU - Bārzdiņš, Guntis
AU - Bojārs, Uldis
AU - Grūzītis, Normunds
AU - Paikens, Pēteris
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - From being a niche technology with practical applications in translation and speech recognition, NLP is now underpinning the AI era through LLMs, promising a universal economic impact in the future. Although transitioning to the AI era is hyped by BigTech companies, practical adoption of the LLM capabilities for economically impactful tasks and processes goes via education of specialists capable to apply it properly. Human-in-the-loop, accuracy measurement, fine-tuning, on-premises processing of sensitive data have become essential skills for applying NLP. This short paper introduces two language technology modules developed and piloted at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Latvia.
AB - From being a niche technology with practical applications in translation and speech recognition, NLP is now underpinning the AI era through LLMs, promising a universal economic impact in the future. Although transitioning to the AI era is hyped by BigTech companies, practical adoption of the LLM capabilities for economically impactful tasks and processes goes via education of specialists capable to apply it properly. Human-in-the-loop, accuracy measurement, fine-tuning, on-premises processing of sensitive data have become essential skills for applying NLP. This short paper introduces two language technology modules developed and piloted at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Latvia.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105040143905
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2026.teachingnlp-1.6
DO - 10.18653/v1/2026.teachingnlp-1.6
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:105040143905
T3 - TeachNLP 2026 - 7th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
SP - 34
EP - 36
BT - TeachNLP 2026 - 7th Workshop on Teaching Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop
A2 - Assenmacher, Matthias
A2 - Biester, Laura
A2 - Borg, Claudia
A2 - Kovacs, Gyorgy
A2 - Mieskes, Margot
A2 - Serrano, Sofia
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Y2 - 29 March 2026
ER -