Govorjeni jezik med raziskovanjem in tehnologijo: Zbornik povzetkov

Darinka Verdonik is an Associate Professor at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. Her research focuses on spoken language, discourse markers, disfluencies, and the development of spoken language corpora. She has led and collaborated on several projects in corpus linguistics and language technologies, with particular attention to the compilation and annotation of spoken Slovene corpora. She has published extensively on discourse and interactional phenomena, as well as on methodological aspects of corpus building. Her work connects theoretical linguistics with practical applications in speech and language technologies.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: darinka.verdonik@um.si

Nikola Ljubešić is a Senior Research Associate at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His work focuses on natural language processing for South Slavic languages, with expertise in corpus creation, linguistic annotation, and language technologies for under-resourced languages. He has coordinated and contributed to the development of large-scale resources such as ParlaMint and ParlaSpeech and has played a key role in building datasets for Slovene, Croatian, and Serbian. His research combines methodological innovation in NLP with practical applications, aiming to improve language resources and tools for both academic research and digital humanities.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: nljubesi@gmail.com