19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Please note that the program uses Mallorca time, i.e., GMT+2 (CEST).

Program: Monday, 11 May 2026

Room: Calvia, 1st floor

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92983398859?pwd=gErMaK7bfqVgkSIaXq9Zb27bzItfnF.1

Monday, May 11, 2026

9:00    Session 1 Chair: Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Université de Montréal

9:00    Introduction

9:06    Keynote: The Cross-Lingual Transfer Myth: Why Modern LLMs Still Fail Without Comparable Corpora and Representations Els Lefever LT3, Ghent University 10:06    A Comparative Study of Parkinsonian Speech Corpora for Deep Learning-Based Detection of Dysarthria Clara Ponchard and Pierre Serrano Inria

10:30    Coffee break

11:00    Session 2: Comparable corpora for linguistics research Chair: Philippe Langlais, Université de Montréal

11:00    Computing Semantic Similarity for Aligning Bilingual Semi-parallel Texts: A Case Study Steffen Frenzel, Maximilian Krupop, Manfred Stede University of Potsdam 11:24    A Comparative Study in Corpus Linguistics Applied to Automatic Terminology Extraction Mercè Vàzquez1, Sergi Alvarez-Vidal2, Antoni Oliver1 1Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 11:48    Comparable Corpora in Cross-linguistic Research: Nominal Number in English, Czech, and Greek Konstantinos Diamantopoulos and Magda Ševčíková Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics 12:12    Liebe Kolleg:innen, Querid@s Compañer@s: Presenting the GILDEES Corpus Marie-Pauline Krielke Saarland University 12:36    A Diachronic Comparable Corpus of Spanish Digital News (2017–2026) for the Study of Stylistic Convergence in the GenAI Era Hugo Sanjurjo-González University of Deusto

13:00    Lunch break

14:00    Session 3: Synthetic corpora Chair: Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds

14:00    Panel discussion: Comparable in the Age of LLMs: Fundamental questions at the intersection of comparable corpora and synthetic data (Chair: Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds) Panelists: Cristina España-Bonet (DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany, and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain) Nizar Habash (NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE) Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada) Benoît Sagot (Inria, Paris, France)

15:12    Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification Luis Kenji Hilasaca Sanchez, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff University of Leeds 15:36    Bi-Text Mining across German Dialects: On the Role of Synthetic Training Data for Dialect Adaptation Jing Wang, Barbara Plank, Robert Litschko LMU Munich

16:00    Coffee break

16:30    Session 4: Building comparable datasets Chair: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS

16:30    Parallel Corpora of Scholarly Documents for English-French Machine Translation Ziqian Peng1, Lichao Zhu2, Rachel Bawden3, Maud Bénard2, Éric de la Clergerie3, Mathilde Huguin4, Natalie Kübler2, Paul Lerner5, Alexandra Mestivier2, François Yvon5 1Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR & Inria, Paris, 2Université Paris Cité, ALTAE, 3Inria, 4CNRS, 5Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR 16:54    Validating a Pipeline to Create a Comparable Corpus of Government-Issued Travel Advisories from the Internet Archives Laura Braun and Christian Oswald University of the German Federal Armed Forces 17:18    Leveraging Comparable Toxicity Lexicons in Prompt Instructions for Multilingual Text Detoxification Yassir El Attar, Esra Dönmez, Nina K. Ohlendorf, Agnieszka Falenska IMS, University of Stuttgart

17:42    Closing words

18:00    End of workshop