Keynotes, talks, and presentations on AI, language technology, and Tetun.
Date: February 26, 2026
Event: Keynote Speaker at the FTH Round Table
Venue: Dili, Timor-Leste
This talk presents Labadain LIX-R361, an agentic AI system for Tetun that improves performance through LLM customization and supports use cases such as translation, news generation, and writing assistance, while highlighting opportunities and challenges for AI in Timor-Leste.
Date: November 21, 2025
Event: Keynote Speaker at the TLNOG2 Conference
Venue: Dili, Timor-Leste
This talk explores how AI can support Tetun, a low-resource and official language of Timor-Leste, by enabling inclusive digital access through language technologies, datasets, and information retrieval systems.
Date: November 20, 2025
Event: Invited Talk at the DEI–FECT–UNTL National Seminar
Venue: Dili, Timor-Leste
This talk introduces Labadain as the foundation of Tetun language technology, showcasing how datasets, tools, and AI systems enable inclusive digital access for Tetun speakers.
Date: May 22, 2024
Event: Conference proceedings talk at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Venue: Torino, Italy
This talk presents Labadain Crawler, a web-based data collection pipeline designed for low-resource languages, detailing its architecture, language processing components, and its application to building a high-quality Tetun text corpus.
Date: May 20, 2024
Event: Conference proceedings talk at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages at LREC-COLING 2024
Venue: Torino, Italy
This talk presents Labadain-30k+, a manually audited Tetun text dataset, outlining the data collection pipeline, quality control process, and key insights from content analysis to support NLP and information retrieval research in a low-resource language.