CLARIN2023 was organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences with the CLARIN infrastructure. This year, the CLARIN Annual Conference was a hybrid event and took place in Leuven (Belgium) and online.
The hybrid format was a big success. Live and on several screens, more than 300 registered participants were able to follow the quality content and learn what CLARIN is about.
Day 1
On Monday 16 October 2023, the conference was opened by Darja Fiser (Executive Director of CLARIN), Krister Lindén (Programme Committee Chair) and Vincent Vandeghinste (Local National Coordinator).
The opening session was followed by the 9th edition of the Steven Krauwer Awards presented by Krister Lindén (Programme Committee Chair, National Coordinator FIN-CLARIN and Chair). This year, two CLARIN Achievements Awards were handed out to Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson and Johan Frid.
The conference continued with the first keynote of CLARIN2023. Jörg Tiedemann, a professor of language technology at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki, presented Lost in Meaning - Found in Translation.
Day 2
Day 2 started with presentations by the programme committee chair, the local national consortium, and the CLARIN committees. Afterwards, Dieter Van Uytvanck, CLARIN Technical Director, presented the state of the technical infrastructure. Concluding the morning, a two-part paper presentation session on the topic of tools and workflows took place, chaired by Stelios Piperidis and Starkaður Barkarson.
The afternoon of Day 2 began with the PhD poster sessions, followed by two thematic sessions: one on ParlaMint, chaired by Maciej Piasecki, and another on tools, chaired by Vincent Vandeginste.
Day 3
The last day of the conference started with a paper presentation session on corpora, chaired by Tomaž Erjavec.
The last keynote of CLARIN2023 was Laurence Devillers, who presented online the Ethical Issues of Generative AI.
The conference concluded with a paper presentation session on metadata and annotations, chaired by Andreas Witt.
Slides, Recordings, Pictures, Proceedings
For more detailed information about the event, visit the CLARIN2023 Annual Conference page, where you can find links to the programme with abstracts, slides, full papers and more.
Accepted papers were published in the CLARIN2023 Proceedings. Selected full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume at Linköping University Electronic Press within about six months of the end of the conference. Once available, a direct link to the publication will be added to the conference page.
More information about previous CLARIN annual conferences can be found here.