CLARIN-CH News
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K-centres with Swiss expertise
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
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
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
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
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
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.