This year’s CLARIN annual conference will take place in Vienna, Austria from September 30, 2025, until October 2, 2025. It is the yearly main event for those working on the construction and maintenance of CLARIN across Europe. The conference remains central in fostering exchange within the community of the humanities and social sciences. Interchanging expertise, ideas, and design of the CLARIN infrastructure, as well as collaborating on data, tools and services that it contains, the conference provides the essential foundations necessary to uphold the core values of the research infrastructure.
CLARIN-CH is happy to announce that Lonneke van der Plas, associate professor in NLP and co-representative of USI in the CLARIN-CH consortium, is keynote speaker at this year’s CLARIN Conference and will talk about “Creativity and AI”.
The CLARIN conference 2025 is set to be a hybrid event with the wider public joining the event virtually. Taking place in Vienna, Austria, on-site participants are welcome by host and organizer CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-AT.
The programme
Spanning over more than three days, the conference has a wide variety of workshops, talks, poster sessions, meet-ups and other events to offer. Before the start of the conference, invited researchers have the chance to take part in the pre-conference which takes place from September 29 to the afternoon of the following day.
During the first day of the main part of the conference, Andreas Baumann from the University of Vienna will give a keynote speech on “Language change as an epidemiological phenomenon” followed by a poster session. The main event on day two consists of a panel in the afternoon titled “Language Technology: AI, Industry, and Research Infrastructure in Collaboration” after which the CLARIN Bazaar will take place.
On the third day of the main conference, after Lonneke van der Plas’s keynote talk, presentations on the design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure will be made by members of the CLARIN community. The main part of the conference closes at 1pm on day three with the awarding of the best PhD poster. However, workshops will continue for invited researchers during the post-conference sessions until the end of the next day.
Swiss contribution
CLARIN-CH will significantly contribute to the 2025 conference. Besides the keynote talk from Lonneke van der Plas (read the abstract and paper here), the national coordinator Cristina Grisot is the chair the leading programme sub-committee and co-organises the panel on language technology. An oral presentation by Cristina Grisot and Joanna Blochowiak will focus on “Building up the CLARIN-CH Training Program”. Finally, a collaborative poster of the Swiss language researchers “The Swiss FAIR-compliant ecosystem of infrastructures 2.0” will be presented.
Registration
Many of the sessions during the conference are in a hybrid format (on-site and online). The wider public is welcome to join the conference virtually and take part in the online events. Find out which sessions can be attended online in the programme of the conference.
