CLARIN-CH News Archives - CLARIN Switzerland

K-centres with Swiss expertise

October 15, 2025

K-centres are the cornerstone of the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. Two of the 38 centres are either fully developed, or co-hosted by Swiss institutions. LLMs4SSH is a virtual centre in which language researchers from UZH and USI collaboratively support researchers in the effective use of large language models for the social sciences and humanities. Developed by the Digital Discourse Lab at ZHAW, CLARIN-APPLIED is a K-centre offering services concerning applied discourse analysis with the focus on multilingual corpora and corpora suitable for comparative analysis.

Swiss FRILS Planning Workshop

October 3, 2025

Register and attend the Swiss FRILS planning workshop organized by USI, LiRI, and CLARIN-CH. Learn more about the work done in the swissuniversities context, reflect in groups on the future of Swiss research infrastructure, and find out about issues regarding governance and funding.

Online event: European Open Science Cloud and Switzerland’s role

September 25, 2025

On October 9, 2025 the newly launched national collaborative effort SENPro invites the research community to take part in their online event. The pivotal creation of an EOSC Federation of Nodes seeks to enable Open Science to thrive and reduce fragmentation on a national level. SENPro’s mission is to strengthen Switzerland’s contribution to the European Open Science movement and to support the broader vision of EOSC: Establishing a framework for its research data and services according to the FAIR principles.

Federated Content Search for Swiss language corpora

September 11, 2025

CLARIN has developed a search engine that pools results from different corpora made available by multiple CLARIN centres. Such an aggregated search engine now also exists for Swiss language corpora: CLARIN-CH content search.

CLARIN-CH Day 2025

September 10, 2025

Registrations are now open for the CLARIN-CH Day 2025. The new webpage includes the provisional programme and all detailled information published. Researchers are welcome to contribute to the events of the day by submitting an abstract for a 5-7 minute pitch.

Call for participation open at the CLARIN-CH Day 2025

September 2, 2025

Submit a data pitch abstract for the CLARIN-CH Day 2025 at UNIL on October 31, 2025. Submission is free and easily done through the submission form.

Launch of new CLARIN-CH working group

August 28, 2025

The new CLARIN-CH Working Group on Research Data Management for language data is launching. The first online preparatory meeting will take place on September 29, 2025. Register now!

Swiss participation at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2025

August 27, 2025

The CLARIN annual conference will take place from September 30 to October 2 in Vienna, Austria. The wider public is welcome to join the event virtually as many sessions are held in a hybrid format. CLARIN-CH is happy to be a part of the thriving European language research.

LiZZ and LiRI five-year anniversary

August 15, 2025

The Zurich Centre for Linguistics and the Linguistic Research Infrastructure are celebrating their five-year existence on September 30, 2025 at UZH. Seize the opportunity by listening to- and getting-in touch with the language experts first hand.

CLARIN-CH Celebration 2025

June 18, 2025

On June 11, 2025, celebrations took place to mark the 5th anniversary of CLARIN-CH and Switzerland’s membership in the European CLARIN infrastructure. Short speeches and celebratory remarks were delivered by several persons who have played, and will continue to play, a significant role in shaping CLARIN-CH.