Who will use CLARIN?

CLARIN aims at bringing together producers and consumers of language resources and technologies. A producer is a contributor of linguistic data, tools or services. Mainly these are research organisations, such as a university or an industrial company that is collecting and annotating textual or speech corpora, or is inventing and implementing natural language processing technologies or applications. A consumer is a researcher or a group in need of linguistic data or processing technologies. In CLARIN, this person is seen mainly as a scholar in the humanities or social sciences. Although the consumer may have no computational linguistics background, CLARIN will aim to help to address research problems involving processing of linguistic data.