Partners of the CLARIN-CH Consortium

✔️ LiRI: national Linguistic Research Infrastructure

LiRI is a technology platform to serve the needs of quantitative research at UZH, Switzerland and beyond. As national research infrastructure, LiRI:

Provides support services, facilities and equipment
Enables collaborative research
Deals with big data
Engages with Open Science
Enables Data Reproducibility
Deals with the entire data life-cycle

The Languge Technology LiRI team provides:

IT services
Application development, such as the LiRI Corpus Platform (LCP) to handle and query large corpora
Data processing & NLP, such as automatic data processing with NLP tools, best practices, coaching, workshops, programming, and Swissdox@LiRI: a tool that allows retrieving large quantities of Swiss media data for research purposes

Lab space and equipment:

LiRI lab for experimental research is equipped with a bundle of data acquisition units, mainly for use in phonetics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
On site and portable

Statistical consulting:

Advice or feedback on study design, statistical methods
Data analysis service

For more on LiRI's services, read here and have a look at the LiRI flyer.

✔️ SWISSUbase and the Language Repository of Switzerland LaRS : national data publication and archiving platform

LaRS is a FAIR compliant national platform for the publication and long-term achiving of linguistic research data on Swiss servers. It uses SWISSUbase as its repository system.

LaRS collaborates with LiRI to provide long-term data archiving services (such as, data processing and conversion, compilation of datasets for archiving, anonymization, metadata). The services are free for the CLARIN-CH community.

Fore more, read here and have a look at the SWISSUbase-LaRS flyer.

✔️ ZHAW / USI Doctoral Progamme in Applied Linguistics: Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society

The programme is geared towards doctoral students whose research project focuses on languages, data, argumentation and narration.
Participation is possible in individual courses or in the entire doctoral programme.

E.g. Python for Linguists, Designing empirical studies in linguistics, Open Science Publication

All courses are free for PhD students from Swiss universities that are members of the CLARIN-CH network.
Fore more about the programme and how to enroll, read here.

✔️ Zürcher Korpuslinguistik und Korpuspragmatik Sommerschule

Kulturlinguistisch grundiert werden wir den Fokus auf Fragestellungen der Lexik, Semantik, Pragmatik und Diskurs-/Kulturanalyse legen – dies sowohl synchron als auch diachron.

ZuKoKo-Sommerschule 2023 findet vom 11. bis 14. September 2023 als Präsenzveranstaltung in Zürich statt. ZuKoKo bietet in diesem Jahr Doktorand:innen, PostDocs und fortgeschrittenen Student (35 Plätze)

Bewerben Sie sich bis zum 31. März 2023 und diskutieren Sie mit uns über Korpuslinguistik und Korpuspragmatik!

Fore more about the programme and how to register, read here.