Team & publications

People behind the Avar Dictionary, acknowledgements, and related academic output.

Project lead

Kebed Zagidov

PhD student · COLT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona

Native speaker of Avar and computational linguist. Lead developer and researcher of AvarLab: platform architecture, morphological models, corpus integration, and community tooling.

kebed.zagidov@upf.edu

Supervisors & collaborators

Thomas Brochhagen

Tenure-track Professor & Ramón y Cajal Fellow · COLT, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona

Doctoral supervisor. Research on language evolution, emergence, and computational linguistics; supervises Avar language resources and the AvarLab ecosystem.

thomas.brochhagen@upf.edu Personal site

Funding & acknowledgements

  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the COLT research group, and Thomas Brochhagen for supervision and linguistic guidance.
  • Native speakers and consultants who review examples and morphology (names withheld when requested).
  • Open-source projects (Django, Bootstrap, Vite) and linguistic resources cited in the repository.
  • The Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the EVOSIG project.
  • The Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), through the Ramón y Cajal research fellowship held by Thomas Brochhagen.

Publications

2026

AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar, a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language

Kebed Zagidov, Thomas Brochhagen — Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9) (2026)

corpus morphology

Kebed Zagidov, Thomas Brochhagen. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9). 2026.

Link PDF DOI
BibTeX 
@misc{avarlab2026,
  title = {AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar, a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language},
  author = {Kebed Zagidov, Thomas Brochhagen},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.computel-1.7},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.computel-1.7/},
}
Plain-text citation

Kebed Zagidov, Thomas Brochhagen (2026). AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar, a Morphologically Rich Low-Resource Language. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9). DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.computel-1.7. https://aclanthology.org/2026.computel-1.7/

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