Frequently Asked Questions - CLARIN for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Mainly, because CLARIN is an infrastructure of language technologies, and the primary users of this technology are the humanities and social sciences. Then, because one of the goals of CLARIN is to make the NLP technology easily available, without the necessity to download, install and get aquainted with all the tools that might be needed for their research. Also because CLARIN will also facillitate the wide distribution of the language resources created by HSS researchers.

Yes. At the beginning of 2009 CLARIN organised a call for collaboration with HSS projects. Three HSS projects were selected as a result of this call. CLARIN will collaborate with these projects during their development and offer language resources and tools, as well as advice on how to use the provided language technology to enhance the work of the projects.

It depends on what you want to do.
If you are searching for a specific corpus, you can find it using the VLW or the facetted search tool. The same happens if you are looking for a specific kind of tool.
If you know the processing steps that would solve your problem, you can use the CLARIN repository to assemble yourself a solution (either browsing through the VLW or searching using the facetted search tool).
CLARIN is currently looking for more advanced solutions that would help even the totally innocent HSS researcher (for instance, guiding him along the process of building a solution).