2026

"Modeling Dialectal Variation through Deep Learning: A CNN-Based Approach to German Dialect Classification", oral presentation at the workshop "Embracing Variability in Natural Language Processing" as part of "The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE | 13)", Lausanne, Switzerland (30.06.2026). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Akbar Karimi, Caroline Kleen, Lucie Flek, Alfred Lameli)

 "Beyond Accuracy: Analyzing Dialect Confusion in Automatic Speech-Based Dialect Classification", poster presentation at the workshop "Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes)" as part of the conference "Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)", Palma de Mallorca, Spain (16.05.2026). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Alfred Lameli and Lucie Flek)

 "Speaker Normalization via Voice Conversion Reveals a Human-Machine Dissociation in Dialect Classification?", poster presentation at the workshop "Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes)" as part of the conference "Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)", Palma de Mallorca, Spain (16.05.2026). (Caroline Kleen, Lea Fischbach [presenter], Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek and Alfred Lameli)

 "Can LLM Agents Identify Spoken Dialects like a Linguist?", oral presentation at the workshop "Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective (DialRes)" as part of the conference "Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)", Palma de Mallorca, Spain (16.05.2026). (Tobias Bystrich, Lukas Hamm, Maria Hassan Akhter, Lea Fischbach [presenter], Lucie Flek and Akbar Karimi)

"Analyzing Dialect Confusion in Automatic Speech-Based Dialect Classification", poster presentation at the conference "Dialekt 3.0", Marburg, Germany (25.03.2026). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Alfred Lameli, and Lucie Flek)

2025

 "EDAudio: Easy Data Augmentation for Dialectal Audio", poster presentation at the conference "15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing – Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI era (RANLP 2025)", Varna, Bulgaria (08.09.2025). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Akbar Karimi, Alfred Lameli, and Lucie Flek)

"Deep Learning Pipeline for German Dialect Recognition", oral presentation at the conference "DiaClas Dialect classification – past, present and future", Ljubljana, Slovenia (25.04.2025). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Akbar Karimi, Caroline Kleen, Lucie Flek, Alfred Lameli)

"Does Preprocessing Matter? An Analysis of Acoustic Feature Importance in Deep Learning for Dialect Classification", oral presentation at the conference "Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)", Tallinn, Estonia (04.03.2025). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Caroline Kleen, Lucie Flek, and Alfred Lameli)

2024

 "Fallstricke und Herausforderungen bei der Erstellung einer DL-Pipeline zur Klassifikation deutscher Dialekte aus Audiodaten" (Pitfalls and Challenges in Developing a Deep Learning Pipeline for Classifying German Dialects from Audio Data), oral presentation at the workshop "KI in der Linguistik: Chancen und Herausforderungen (LDDB 2024)" as part of the conference "KI-Methoden im Akademienprogramm: Potenziale und Anwendungsszenarienat", University of Hamburg (23.09.2024). (Lea Fischbach [presenter])

"A Comparative Analysis of Speaker Diarization Models: Creating a Dataset for German Dialectal Speech", oral presentation at the workshop "Field Matters" as part of the conference "62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)", Bangkok, Thailand (16.08.2024). (Lea Fischbach [presenter])

"EDAudio: Easy Data Augmentation Techniques for Audio Classification", oral presentation at the conference "2th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe – ICLaVE\|12" in the panel: EMBRACING VARIABILITY IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Vienna, Austria (10.07.2024). (Alfred Lameli, Lea Fischbach [presenter], Caroline Kleen, Akbar Karimi, Lucie Flek)

"Dialekte des Deutschen multiperspektivisch betrachtet: Digitale Methoden zur Analyse gesprochener Sprache" (The German dialects from a multiperspective view: Digital methods for the analysis of spoken language), poster presentation at the conference "60. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache. Gesprochenes Deutsch: Struktur, Variation, Interaktion", Mannheim, Germany (06.03.2024). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Marina Frank [presenter], Caroline Kleen [presenter])

2022

„Un programma di apprendimento di una lingua regionale in forma di App: Implementazione didattica, utilizzo e realizzazione tecnica“ (A language learning program for a regional language in the form of an app: Educational implementation, usage, and technical development), oral presentation at Università degli Studi die Modena e Reggio Emilia (03.10.2022). (Peter Kaspar [presenter], Lea Fischbach [presenter])

„Apps am Sprachatlas – Modernisierungen und Neuentwicklungen“ (Apps at the Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas – Modernizations and New Developments"), oral presentation at the workshop "Herausforderungen linguistischer Datenvisualisierung (LDDB 2022)" at University of Vienna (16.09.2022). (Lea Fischbach [presenter], Robert Engsterhold [presenter])

2020