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CLARIN The Infrastructure for Language Resources: book published with OA
Publication date: 8 May 2023
CLARIN, the “Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure”, has established itself as a major player in the field of research infrastructures for the humanities. This volume edited by Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt (De Gruyter, 2022) provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, its members, its goals and its functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure.
The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law to psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future.
Part I: CLARIN: An Introduction of the ERIC
Part II: Technical Infrastructure
Part III: Knowledge Infrastructure
Part IV: Research Driven by Infrastructure
Access all chapters with OA here.
New SWISSUbase version release: April 2023
Publication date: 27 April 2023
SWISSUbase has a new version release (April 2023). 
Watch this video to see the new features and updates of this SWISSUbase version release. For a step-by-step guidance about discovering the new release, read here.
Among the new features: SWISSUbase now has download statistics for your datasets, updated catalogue search and license types, among others. See the SWISSUbase release updates for more details.
New to SWISSUbase? Click here to learn more.
Participation of CLARIN-CH in the UPSKILLS workshop (Geneva, 21-22 April 2023)
Publication date: 27 April 2023
The UPSKILLS project is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership for higher education that seeks to identify and tackle the gaps and mismatches in skills for linguistics and language students through the development of a new curriculum component and supporting materials to be embedded in existing programmes of study. All the materials produced by the project will be made available with OA on the project website around June 2023 by means of a Moodle platform. Keep an eye on it!
As partner of the Geneva UPSKILLS workshop, we participated to provide an overview of CLARIN ERIC and CLARIN-CH.
Here you can find the slides of the presentation made on April 21, 2023, in Geneva.
Presentation of Switzerland and CLARIN-CH in the CLARIN ERIC General Assembly 2023
Publication date: 19 April 2023
After joining CLARIN ERIC as observer in January 2023, Switzerland was invited to present the CLARIN-CH consortium, the national infrastructure and our plans for the future. This presentation was done at the CLARIN ERIC General Assembly 2023 by Cristina Grisot, Scientific Coordinator, and Katharina Eggenberger, National Representative.
Here you can find the slides of the presentation made on April 19, 2023, in Lisbon.
Deadline Extension: Call for Abstracts CLARIN2023
Publication date: 14 April 2023
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 (CLARIN2023) is now extended to 28 April 2023.
The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences community in order to exchange experiences in working with the CLARIN infrastructure, share best practices, and discuss plans for future developments.
CLARIN2023 will be a face-to-face event, which will also be fully accessible virtually (hybrid format). The conference will take place in the historic city of Leuven, Belgium.
Read the full call here.
Swiss national conference Open Up Digital Editions
Publication date: 6 April 2023
The conference Open Up Digital Editions will take place on January 25 and 26, 2024 in Zurich and will be hosted by the Center for Digital Editions (UZH) and the Research and Infrastructure Support unit RISE (University of Basel).
The conference will focus on the use and re-use of digital editions and edition data. With the growing number of digital editions and the continuous availability of new edition data, issues of use and re-use are increasingly coming to the fore. However, many questions remain open and unresolved: Do editions meet the research needs? Which standards should future projects adopt? How do digital editions remain accessible after the end of the project? How can edition projects be linked with each other?
Round tables with: Prof. Tara Andrews (University of Wien), Prof. Elena Pierazzo (University of Tours), Stefan Dumont (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Dr. Rita Gautschy (DaSCH), Dr. Matteo Romanello (University of Lausanne), Silke Bellanger (UB Basel Open Science), e-editiones, Dr. Rainer Hugener (Staatsarchiv | Kanton Zürich), Elena Chestnova (Università della Svizzera Italiana), among others.
Everyone interested in digital scholarly editions is cordially invited to submit a contribution.
All information, including how to submit a contribution, can be found on the conference website: https://open-up-dse.github.io/.
Organisers: Yann Stricker (ZDE) and Elena Spadini (RISE)
Kick off event for the CHORD-Talk-in-interaction project
Publication date: 29 March 2023
A workshop about spoken corpora as open research data (ORD) will take place on the West campus of USI Università della Svizzera italiana, main building, room 253, on April 28, 2023, 4 pm - 6:30 pm:
KIParla corpus: history, methodological choices and future challenges / Corpus KIParla: storia, scelte metodologiche e sfide future
Caterina Mauri and Silvia Ballarè (University of Bologna) will present the KIParla corpus of spoken Italian, in dialogue with Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel), and engage in a debate with the audience about practices and challenges related to data collection, storage, sharing and reuse in the study of talk-in-interaction. The workshop addresses a public of researchers in interactional linguistics and neighbouring fields and, more generally, of researchers in the humanities who are interested in the topic of open data. It can be attended on site and online via Zoom. On site participants are invited to a small networking reception after the workshop. Please register for participation by April 24th, 2023 (see the links below).
The workshop kicks off the project Data-sharing skills in corpus-based research about talk-in-interaction (short title: CHORD-Talk-in-interaction), which is part of the Open Research Data grant program (ORD) promoted by SwissUniversities and involves a team of linguists from USI and the universities of Basel, Lausanne and Neuchâtel.
Contact for CHORD-Talk-in-interaction: Johanna Miecznikowski (USI)
Workshop webpage: https://bit.ly/CHORDTalk-WS1
Registration form: https://usi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cZleO2fnCSM4cNo
Twitter: @CHORDTalk
Swissdox@LiRI Newsletter: March 2023
Publication date: 27 March 2023
There are interesting news about Swissdox@LiRI, the media database of the Linguistic Research Infrastructure - LiRI:
1) Swissdox@LiRI is now also accessible via an API: so you can access the database directly from a script, submit queries and download data. All information can be found in the manual available here.
2) As part of the SwissText conference in June 2023, we are calling for a hackathon: We provide a dataset from Swissdox@LiRI containing 100,000 Swiss news articles from each newspaper (German and French language). This large dataset makes it possible to answer a variety of questions from the perspective of political science, media studies, linguistics, history, and other fields. Researchers who normally do not have access to the Swissdox@LiRI database can also participate! Read more here.
CLARIN-CH is an academic partner of SwissText conference so all participants, who are members of the CLARIN and CLARIN-CH communities, get 25% discount on the registration fees.
3) SwissBERT: Jannis Vamvas, Johannes Graën and Rico Sennrich published a language model trained with 21 million articles from Swissdox@LiRI. The language model and all information about it are available here. This is just one of many examples of great research being done with Swissdox@LiRI data!
The Swissdox@LiRI team hopes you can do great research with the data as well and is always happy to hear about it. Please don't forget to mention the use of the data in your publications. This will help Swissdox@LiRI to continue to operate and fund the service in the years to come.
Tour de Suisse: UNIFR on 31 March 12h00-13h00
Publication date: 27 March 2023
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Fribourg, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to Cristina Grisot to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
If you have missed the presentation or want to have access to the slides, please find them here.
Linguists in tech: closing the skills gap
Publication date: 21 February 2023
This workshop is the second Swiss multiplier event of the UPSKILLS project. It will take place at the University of Geneva on 21-22 April 2023.
Its goal is to bring together members of academia and companies across Switzerland to work on improving employability of language and linguistics students. Why is this necessary? Because language and linguistics students are generally excluded from the job market working with language data due to the fact that the relevant university curricula do not provide adequate training in a narrow range of technical domains.
The Linguists in tech: closing the skills gap workshop will present the needs analyses that led to the planification and the design of a repository of didactic material targeting at bridging the mismatch between what the job market needs and what is currently offered to language and linguistics students. The event will also revolve around several social moments to favour informal exchanges between guests from the industry and the academic community.
Find the programme here.
Anyone interested in the topic is welcome to take part in the event. The participation is free. PhD students are particularly welcome. To register, please fill in this form before March 20 at the latest.
UNIFR joins the CLARIN-CH Consortium
Publication date: 9 February 2023
We are happy to announce that the University of Fribourg has joined the CLARIN-CH Consortium! We are grateful to the vice-rector for research, prof. Katharina Fromm, as well as the members of the local scientific community, for their support.
We are looking forward to collaborating with all our members to further develop the CLARIN-CH network!
Call for Abstracts: CLARIN Annual Conference 2023
Publication date: 25 January 2023
CLARIN ERIC announces the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location.
The CLARIN Conference 2023 will take place on 16-18 October 2023 and it will be a face-to-face event, which will also be fully accessible virtually. The conference will take place in the historic city of Leuven, Belgium, at the heritage campus of the Irish College.
Conference Aims
The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments.
The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure.
Please read here the details description of the conference topics and the types of submissions.
Submission deadline: 14 April 2023
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications Call for papers
Publication date: 20 January 2023
CLaDA-BG, the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN ERIC and DARIAH ERIC, announces the :
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference
Sofia, Bulgaria
10-12 May 2023
CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history.
This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research.
Topics of Interest:
- Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support
- Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H
- Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H
- Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data
- The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research
- Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H
- Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H
- Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history
Invited Speakers:
- Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy
- Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany
- Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: 24.02.2023
- Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023
- Final Submission: 3.05.2023
- Conference: 10-12.05.2023
Submissions:
Oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo) are welcomed. There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings.
Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link.
For contacting organizers, please use this email.
Winter School on Corpus Data for the Analysis of Discourse, Interactions and Arguments
Publication date: 20 January 2023
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), together with the CLARIN-CH consortium, is happy to announce the Winter School on Corpus Data for the Analysis of Discourse, Interactions and Arguments, which will take place on February 7-9, 2023, in Lugano.
The main goal of the Winter School is to create a stage where PhD students can meet, interact and discuss their corpus data with Swiss and international senior researchers who are recognized leaders in the domains of corpus studies, discourse analysis and argumentation mining. The school involves three types of activities: 1) longer methodological seminars, 2) shorter interactive sessions guiding students through issues of data analysis, and 3) data sessions where PhD students present their ongoing research and discuss issues and solutions regarding the analysis of corpus data pertaining to
their PhD theses.
In the programme:
Data-focused seminars
- QT30 and beyond: Analysing argumentation in the wild, Chris Reed (University of Dundee) and Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau):
- Collecting and analyzing data on social media, Aleksandra Gnach (ZHAW)
Interactive seminars
- Corpus Linguistics for Discourse Analysis: Data and Methods, Noah Bubenhofer (UZH), Julia Krasselt (ZHAW)
- Transforming talk into data: the role of transcription Panel on Open Research Data in the area of linguistics, Johanna Miecznikowski (USI)
Panel on Open Research Data in the area of linguistics:
- Upgrading the linguistic ORD-ecosystem Up-LORD (main applicant: UZH, PI: Noah Bubehofer)
- Swiss-AL: Linguistic ORD Practices for Applied Sciences (main applicant ZHAW, PI: Julia Krasselt)
- Data-sharing skills in corpus-based research on talk-in-interaction (main applicant: USI, PI: Johanna Miecznikowski-Fuenfschilling)
Presentation of CLARIN-CH and CLARIN resources, Cristina Grisot (University of Zurich, Scientific Coordinator)
Please find here the Programme and the abstracts of alls seminars.
Attenting the conference is still possible as audience. For PhD students, the costs for the travel and hotel are covered by the Doctoral programme.
If you want to participate, please contact Dr. Olena Yaskorska Shah.
SwissText - Swiss Text Analytics Conference: Call for papers
Publication date: 17 January 2023
CLARIN-CH is an academic partner of the 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) which takes place on June 12-14, 2023 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland at the HE-Arc - Haute École Arc.
SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and the data innovation alliance.
The conference will feature the following tracks:
✅ Applied track: Short abstract (approx 0.5-1 page) in the form of a talk, poster or Demo.
✅ Scientific Research
✅ Regular Track: Full paper (6-8 pages)
✅ Junior Track: Short paper (up to 4 pages), extended feedback, possibility to re-submit revised version.
Submission deadline: March 15, 2023
All CLARIN and CLARIN-CH members get a 25% discount on the conference fees.
For more details and information about the submission procedure, read here.
[C4Education] Call for heritage showcase funding - Deadline 31 January 2023
Publication date: 16 January 2023
Open Call for Projects/Applications
C4Education, which is a EU-fuded project, will develop and run a virtual lab comprising an application marketplace that includes certification criteria and distribution models for digital tools for cultural heritage as well as a corresponding training platform.
They kindly invite our community to take this call as an opportunity to showcase their cultural heritage applications with the prospect of economic and societal impact, which are already developed and validated in relevant environments. Be most welcome to apply and potentially benefit from the following offers:
- A voucher of 3.000 € per selected demo-case
- Priority onboarding to the platform (with access to approximately 14.000 cultural heritage professionals and customers)
- High-quality support for developing added-value-services for customers.
Submission deadline: 31 January 2023
All details on the call can be found here: Open Call for Projects/Applications – Heritage Innovation
Register now for the online webinar to discover the Language Repository of Switzerland!
Publication date: 5 January 2023
📢 A live webinar will take place on February 14 (15:00-16:00 CET) to present the new Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS), powered by SWISSUbase.
Register here for this free event!
In this webinar, you will learn about the SWISSUbase archiving platform for the linguistics community and the services provided to researchers including data curation, archiving and publishing of your linguistics data. The session will include a demonstration of the platform and time for questions and answers. The webinar will be held in English.
Join us to discover more about the new Language Repository of Switzerland and SWISSUbase!
For more information, visit the website: Language Repository of Switzerland (LaRS) or download the LaRS-SWISSUbase flyer for more details.
Switzerland joins CLARIN ERIC as Observer starting with 1 January 2023
Publication date: 30 November 2022
📢 We are very happy to announce that Switzerland joins CLARIN ERIC as Observer starting with 1 January 2023.
This is a great accomplishment for the CLARIN-CH Consortium and we are very thankful to all Swiss institutions members of CLARIN-CH for their support and to the SERI for agreeing to request Switzerland's membership.
We are also very thankful to CLARIN ERIC and the CLARIN General Assembly for accepting Switzerland in the CLARIN family and we are looking forward to the next steps.
CLARIN-CH information session at UNIGE on 29 November 12h15-13h30
Publication date: 11 November 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Geneva, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
If you missed the presentation, please have a look at the slides and/or the recording.
CLARIN-CH takes part in the second event organised within the "SSH Research Infrastructures in Switzerland"
Publication date: 11 November 2022
As a follow up to the first event (31 May 2022) and of the position paper (November 2022), the coordination group of this initiative invites the members of the Swiss SSH scientific community interested in research infrastructures to a second event on 18 January 2023 in Bern.
The goals of the event are to raise awareness on the importance of research infrastructure in the SSH domain, to understand how the funding process functions and to learn from the experience of other countries on how collaborations between projects and infrastructures work.
For more information on the programme and to register, please see the webpage of the event here.
UNIGE joins the CLARIN-CH Consortium
Publication date: 4 November 2022
We are happy to announce that the University of Geneva has joined the CLARIN-CH Consortium! We are grateful to the vice-rector for research, prof. Brigitte Galliot, for her support.
We are looking forward to collaborating with all our members to further develop the CLARIN-CH network!
New CLARIN promotion video
Publication date: 27 October 2022
📢 Discover the new CLARIN promotion video, which explains its functioning and utility for research in the field of social and human sciences !
Watch it - it takes only 3 minutes - and we guarantee you will want to start using the CLARIN infrastructure!
Participation of CLARIN-CH in the newly created Swiss EOSC
Publication date: 6 September 2022
The EOSC Association is the legal entity established to govern the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
It's Swiss members aim to build-up an EOSC community in Switzerland.
You are kindly invited to the kick-off event, which will take place:
Thursday 29th September, 16.00-17.15, online via Zoom (registration is not required)
The programme is as follows:
General introduction:
Part 1: What is EOSC? Objectives, EOSC Projects, Achievements
Part 2: What does EOSC mean for Switzerland? – 3 examples
- Some experiences and views (Owen Appleton, SIB)
- Photon and Neutron data services in EOSC (Mirjam van Daalen, PSI)
- Social Sciences and Humanities RIs in EOSC (Cristina Grisot, CLARIN-CH & DARIAH-CH)
Break out rooms: community building - meet the people who work for different EOSC Task Forces, data service and infrastructure providers and domain-specific FAIR initiatives
Discussion: Next steps to build up the EOSC community in Switzerland
About the "Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructures in Switzerland" initiative
Publication date: 30 August 2022
In spring 2022, a coordination group consisting of the directors of national research infrastructures (RIs) in the SSH, the national coordinators of international SSH RIs with Swiss participation (CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, ESS, SHARE, GGP) and the representatives of the Swiss Academy for the SSH was created.
This working group has started a reflexion in order gather the SSH community and to defend its interests with respect to RIs. This is being done through a series of events and a position paper:
- The first event, which took place on Mai 31, 2022, gathered several stakeholders - researchers, representatives of academic and research institutions, the SNSF, SERI and Euresearch. You can find here the slides of the meeting.
- The second event will take place on 18 January 2023. The idea is to have a full day event, whose objective are to try to learn about concrete infrastructure proposals and to exchange on how we can coordinate and create synergies between different concrete projects. So, in addition to keynote speakers, there will also be slots for different projects presentations.
For more information about the initiative and how to get involved, please write to Dr. Cristina Grisot, Scientific Coordinator of CLARIN-CH or Prof. Dr. Georg Lutz, director of FORS - Swiss Center of Expertise in the Social Sciences.
CLARIN Annual Conference 2022: virtual participation possible
Publication date: 27 July 2022
The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities, and social sciences.
This year, it will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 10 to 12 October 2022.
Keynotes speakers:
Barbara Plank, professor for natural language processing
Peter Leinen, head of information infrastructure at the German National Library
All the latest details and the programme will be provided on theconference website.
Virtual participation is possible: register here.
Tour de Suisse: UNIBAS on 14 June 13h00-14h00
Publication date: 1 June 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Basel, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
If you missed the presentation, please have a look at the slides.
Tour de Suisse: UNIBE on 1 June 10h00-11h00
Publication date: 1 June 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Bern, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
If you missed the presentation, please have a look at the slides.
Discover SWISSUbase webinar: recording
Publication date: 17 May 2022
Did you miss the webinar “Discover SWISSUbase” provided by Stefan Buerli and Alexandra Stam from FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences team on May 5?
No worries! Here is the link to the recording!
If you have questions, do not hesitate to reach out!
Free UPSKILLS workshop "Linguists in tech- a Swiss perspective"
Publication date: 11 May 2022
WHAT
This multiplier event is the first of two events to be organized in Switzerland by the UPSKILLS project (carried out by CLARIN members). Its goal is to bring together members of academia, students and companies across Europe to work on improving employability of language and linguistics students.
WHY
Many companies, including technology giants, work with language data and the demand for research skills in language-related domains is constantly growing. University curricula, however, are rarely oriented towards specific skills needed for research and industry (such as programming, data acquisition and handling etc.). As a result, language and linguistic students tend to be poorly prepared for research or industry careers. The UPSKILLS project addresses this gap with multiple activities to be presented at this full-day event.
WHEN
The event will take place at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, in Lugano, on 8 June 2022, between 9am and 5pm. See the provisional programme here for details, which will be updated in due course.
Registration is free of charge and is now available on this page (as of May 1st 2022):
on site: https://forms.gle/R2ATxDBm6naqtXZY7
zoom: https://forms.gle/Juo7yKJCmC1H88Kk8
Call for submissions to the next CLARIN / DARIAH conference
Publication date: 11 May 2022
You are kindly invited to submit a paper to the Slovenian Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference - JTDH 2022, which will take place in September 15-16, 2022, in Ljubljana.
This is a joint DARIAH ERIC and CLARIN ERIC event.
Submission deadline: May 30, 2022
The conference is thematically broad and aims to bring together researchers from various backgrounds and methodological frameworks. The main topics include but are not limited to:
✔️ speech and other mono- and multilingual language technologies;
✔️ digital linguistics: translation studies, corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, standardisation;
✔️ digital humanities and historical studies, ethnology, musicology, cultural heritage, archaeology, and fine arts;
✔️ digital humanities in education and digital publishing
Tour de Suisse: USI on 17 May 12h30-13h30
Publication date: 11 May 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the Università della Zvizzera Italiana, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
If you missed the presentation, please have a look at the slides.
Tour de Suisse: UZH on 6 May 13h00-14h00
Publication date: 5 May 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Zurich, on site and online.
If you want to participate, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the location details or the Zoom link.
Tour de Suisse: UNIFR on 4 May 14h00-15h00
Publication date: 26 April 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Fribourg, on site and online.
If you want to participate via Zoom, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the Zoom link.
Tour de Suisse: ZHAW on 26 April 12h00-13h00
Publication date: 26 April 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the Zurich School of Applied Sciences, on site and online.
If you want to participate via Zoom, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the Zoom link.
Great news for the future of research infrastructures in the area of Social and Human Sciences in Switzerland!
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Yesterday, the Federal Council submitted a dispatch on the Swiss membership in six European research infrastructures (ERICs) to Parliament.
They will also work towards simplifying Switzerland's future membership of ERIC research infrastructures, such as CLARIN.
We are looking forward to getting there!!
You can find the press release in English, German, French, and Italian here: https://lnkd.in/ePxVbiDd
CLARIN Café on Bilingual and Multilingual Corpora
Publication date: 12 April 2022
Are you working with or would like to use bilingual and multilingual corpora?
If yes, join the next CLARIN Café on 29 April 2022 at 2PM (until 4.15PM) on Zoom!
The objective of this Café is to focus on the features of bi-/multilingual parallel, comparable and dialectal corpora (new or already published), and provide demonstrations on how to collect/build, annotate, explore, analyse and archive them in an interoperable way.
Each demo will include hands-on presentations and best practice recommendations for:
✔️ Bi-/multilingual corpus building/collection and metadata
✔️ Corpus exploitation (principles and tools of transcription, annotation)
✔️ Data exploration, cleaning, output reorganisation and analysis
✔️ FAIR issues and perspectives for knowledge sharing.
This edition of the CLARIN café is organised by:
🔘 Eva Soroli, CLARIN Ambassador, Associate Professor, University of Lille, France;
🔘 Thomas Gaillat, Associate Professor, University of Rennes, France;
🔘 Franck Cinato, CNRS researcher, University of Paris, France.
Visit the CLARIN website to register and to receive the Zoom link:
https://lnkd.in/ekNu3gvV
New date for the SWISSUbase webinary
Publication date: 8 April 2022
The FORS Data Archive & the SWISSUbase Team are pleased to announce a new date for the live webinar session
Discover SWISSUbase, which will be held on Thursday, 5th May from 1-2pm.
They are eager to conduct this interactive live session with you, to share the key features and benefits of SWISSUbase and to answer your questions.
Register now for the free online webinar: Discover SWISSUbase https://lnkd.in/e3adnaCk
LiRI: a National Technology Platform
Publication date: 30 March 2022
We are happy to share the new presentation video of the national Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI).
LiRI, hosted at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, provides technical and practical support for research projects in the field of linguistics, language sciences and language-related disciplines at the University of Zurich and beyond.
LiRI services fall into three main categories:
- Data acquisition: The LiRI lab has equipment and software for generating and collecting linguistic research data. The facilities can be used by scientists or other users interested in natural language data (i.e. audiovisual, textual and speech data), and by language researchers working on experimental data (e.g. eye-tracking, electroencephalographic, behavioral).
- Data management: LiRI can set up and manage customized virtual machine (VM) servers for the purposes of processing, analysis, storage and backup of linguistic research data. These VM servers are part of the ScienceCloud environment of the University of Zurich and are accessible both within the UZH network and world wide. From summer 2022 onwards, publication-ready data for long-term archiving can be directly ingested into the SWISSUBase infrastructure, a Swiss national center for research data.
- Collaboration and support:The Linguistic Research Infrastructure offers technical and methodological assistance to researchers on how best to collect, process and analyze the linguistic data they require. A project's infrastructure needs can be discussed in an initial, free of charge consultation. Depending on the complexity of the project, support could range from occasional guidance to LiRI managing all data acquisition and processing. LiRI staff members can also advise on project budgets and data management plans.
CLARIN Annual Conference 2022
Publication date: 25 March 2022
The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities, and social sciences.
Keynotes speakers:
Barbara Plank, professor for natural language processing
Peter Leinen, head of information infrastructure at the German National Library
This year, it will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 10 to 12 October 2022.
Submission deadline: 14 April 2022
Tour de Suisse: IDIAP on 23 March 11h00-12h00
Publication date: 23 March 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, on site and online.
If you want to participate via Zoom, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the Zoom link.
Tour de Suisse: UNIL on 16 March 12h00-13h00
Publication date: 10 March 2022
The next CLARIN and CLARIN-CH information session will take place at the University of Lausanne on site and online.
If you want to participate via Zoom, please write to cristina.grisot@uzh.ch to ask for the Zoom link.
Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics
Publication date: 10 March 2022
We are happy to announce the Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics: Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society.
The doctoral school is co-organized by two members of CLARIN-CH: the ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics and the USI Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, and funded by Swissuniversities.
The programme is geared towards doctoral students whose research project focuses on languages, data, argumentation and narration.
All courses are free for PhD students from Swiss universities that are members of the CLARIN-CH network. Participation is possible in individual courses or in the entire doctoral programme.
For more information, please check the website and/or write to the Programme Manager Dr. Eva Kuske.
Check the spring programme here.
Webinar to introduce SWISSUbase
Publication date: 8 March 2022
SWISSUbase is the new research data service for the archiving and sharing of linguistic data.
It is implemented by FORS (Swiss Center for Expertise in Social Sciences), UNIL, UZH, DaSCH (Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities) and SWITCH, with the support of Swissuniversities.
Free online webinar to introduce SWISSUbase to the Swiss social science and linguistics community.
🗓️The webinar takes place on March 31, 1-2PM.
Register now!
https://lnkd.in/e3adnaCk
CLARIN-CH Tour de Suisse
Publication date: 24 February 2022
We are happy to announce the CLARIN-CH “Tour de Suisse” consisting in information sessions in every research and academic institution interested!
We are looking forward to meeting you there!
Check also our flyer and the slides.
CLARIN-CH presentation at the VALS-ASLA Forum
Publication date: 24 February 2022
We were very happy to participate in the VALS-ASLA Forum, which took place on 18 February 2022, with a presentation about how CLARIN-CH may serve the national applied linguistics community.
You can download here the slides.
CLARIN Café on Guidelines for Integrating CLARIN resources into Teaching
Publication date: 26 November 2021
The upcoming CLARIN café, taking place on 1 Dec, 14:00 - 16:00 CEST on Zoom, will focus on Guidelines for Integrating CLARIN into Teaching. Lessons learnt from the UPSKILLS project
This event will focus on the current practices for using CLARIN resources in teaching and the creation of best-practice guidelines for lecturers. Although primarily intended for language and linguistics-related disciplines, these guidelines can also be extended and adapted to suit other disciplines.
The UPSKILLS European project is an Erasmus+ strategic partnership for higher education that seeks to identify and tackle the gaps and mismatches in skills for linguistics and language students through the development of a new curriculum component and supporting materials to be embedded in existing programmes of study.
Three Swiss research institutions are members of the UPSKILLS project: the University of Zurich, the University of Geneva and the IDIAP Research Institute.
Here you can find the registration link.
LiRI workshop on dealing with corpora
Publication date: 22 November 2021
LiRI is organizing a workshop on dealing with corpora on November 24, 14:00-17:00. The workshop takes place simultaneously on site (Campus Oerlikon at UZH) and on Zoom.
The number of participants is limited for the on site workshop but there is plenty of place for the Zoom format!
To register: send an e-mail to info.liri@linguistik.uzh.ch until 23 November 2021.
LiRI Opening event
Publication date: 19 October 2021
LiRI- Linguistic Research Infrastructure - is a technology platform hosted by the University of Zürich.
It consists of various laboratory facilities for linguistic research (and related research fields) and technical infrastructure for the analysis of language and speech.
It serves as a national platform for linguistics data storage/processing/science, uniting as many linguistic data resource types as possible in one data center. Its services are available to all researchers working with language data. If you need support from the LiRI consultats, please check here their services: LiRI services.
LiRI entertains tight relations with CLARIN-CH. LiRI and the Zurich Center for Linguistics constitute the UZH center of the CLARIN-CH national network.
LiRI is organising an Opening event on September 24, 2021. You are most welcome to participate!
We will be there with a poster on CLARIN-CH. We are looking forward to meeting you and to answer to any questions about CLARIN-CH.
To have more information and register: Registration