CLARIN-CH News
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SENPro community workshop in December
On 2 December 2025, from 01:00 p.m. – 03: p.m., the project team of the Swiss EOSC Node Prototype (SENPro) invites researchers from across Switzerland to a virtual meeting focused on shaping Switzerland’s engagement with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Save the date for Swiss NLP Expo 2026
The next SwissNLP Expo will take place on 9 June 2026 at the University of Zurich. This year the event is co-organised with ZHAW and UZH. The format will be similar to last year with booths for both academic and industry exhibitions, workshops, job-seeking activities, networking spaces and more. Save the date and register for the event!

Public panel on what AI does and should know
On November 12 from 15:30 – 18:00 at UZH center, the Digital Society Initiative together with LiRI will hold a public panel discussion on “What does and what should AI know?”.

New CLARIN Citation Guidelines
On September 30, 2025, the first version of the official CLARIN citation guidelines were published. They define the minimal information required when referencing datasets archived within the CLARIN network. We encourage the CLARIN-CH community to make use of these guidelines as they will strengthen the visibility of shared resources.

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.