What is CLARIN about?

CLARIN aims at uniting existing digital archives in Europe that contain language-based material into a federation that will allow the social sciences and humanities research communities to have unified access to the content. It wants to make the wealth of language and speech processing tools that have been developed over the recent years available to interested researchers with a view to opening up new research avenues. Another goal of CLARIN is to provide web based services that will allow non-expert users (especially humanities and social sciences researchers without technological background) to perform complex tasks on the materials contained in the archives, such as ‘Summarize Le Monde of March 17 2008 – in Polish’.