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.
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.
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
Kebed Zagidov & Thomas Brochhagen — ComputEL-9 (Ninth workshop on computational methods in the study of endangered languages) (2026)
corpusmorphology
Integrated digital ecosystem for Avar covering dictionary, morphology, and corpus tooling. To appear.
BibTeX
@misc{avarlab2026,
title = {AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar},
author = {Kebed Zagidov & Thomas Brochhagen},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {ComputEL-9 (Ninth workshop on computational methods in the study of endangered languages)},
}
Plain-text citation
Kebed Zagidov & Thomas Brochhagen (2026). AvarLab: An Integrated Digital Ecosystem for Avar. ComputEL-9 (Ninth workshop on computational methods in the study of endangered languages).