Information about the International Scientific Seminar “Digitization of Folklore Texts: Corpus Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Preservation of Linguistic Heritage”

INFORMATION LETTER

Dear Colleagues,

The Department of Kazakh Linguistics of L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University announces the upcoming international scientific seminar titled “Digitalization of Folklore Texts: Corpus Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Preservation of Linguistic Heritage”, organized within the framework of the grant-funded project AP26103909 “Corpus of Folklore Texts: Linguistic and IT Solutions for the Digitalization of the Kazakh Language” (Project Leader: Professor Karlygash Sarekenova). Date: October 15, 2026 Time: 16:00 Format: In-person and online Working languages: Kazakh, English, and Russian. Materials in Karakalpak, Turkish, Tatar, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Bashkir, and Azerbaijani will also be accepted. Venue: 11 Kazhymukan Street, Astana, Room 203 (Building No. 5). Main Areas of the Seminar: Digitalization and digital preservation; Development of a corpus of folklore texts; Linguistic annotation of corpus texts; Automated processing of corpus data; Artificial intelligence and folklore; Digital research of folklore heritage; Digital modeling of linguistic and cultural units; Preservation of folklore knowledge and development of a knowledge graph; Language teaching based on digital corpora; The digital future of Kazakh folklore.

The seminar materials will be published as an electronic collection. Articles not meeting the requirements will not be accepted. The organizing committee is not responsible for the content of the articles. The committee and editorial board reserve the right to select and publish submitted materials. Deadline for accepting articles in electronic form: until October 14, 2026, together with the receipt of payment. After the publication of the article in the conference collection, participants will be provided with an electronic version. Article formatting requirements: length of 5-6 pages, editor – WORD, font size 12 pt, font – TIMES NEW ROMAN. References should be cited in the text in order of appearance (in square brackets), with a full list provided at the end of the article. For articles written in Kazakh, an abstract in English is required; for articles written in other languages, abstracts in Kazakh and English are required. Keywords should be provided after the abstract. Information about the author (place of employment, academic title and degree, address, and contact information (E-mail)) should be provided after the title of the article. Working languages of the conference: Kazakh, Turkic languages, English, Russian. Articles should be submitted to: E:mail: aitova_nn@enu.kz; akhmetova_mk@enu.kz 11 Kazhymukan Street, Astana City. Department of Kazakh Linguistics, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Room ELB 201). Contacts: Nurlykhan Aitova (+7 700 072 04 10) , Marzhan Akhmetova (+7 747 1162095)

Organizing Committee