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CLARIN Newsflash September 2024

  


NEWS


Successful Launch of the ECHOES Project

Earlier this month saw the public launch of the  European Cloud for Heritage OpEn Science project (ECHOES) in Loir-et-Cher, France. The hybrid event had over 300 attendees and featured keynotes by Sally Chambers (DARIAH) and Livio De Luca (CNRS). The project brings together communities of the cultural heritage field and aims to create the ECCCH (European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage) as a shared platform for heritage professionals and researchers to access data, innovative scientific and training resources, and advanced digital tools. 

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CLARIN2024: Virtual Registration is still open!
15 - 17 October 2024, Barcelona, Spain (hybrid event)

The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. 

The special Newsflash CLARIN2024 Edition will be published next week!

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CLARIN Mobility Grants Available

CLARIN Mobility Grants are designed to support individual researchers, developers, and educators with funding for short visits to CLARIN sites from different countries to collaborate on building the  CLARIN infrastructure. Mobility Grants may be also used for short visits between CLARIN and other research infrastructures. For 2024, three grants remain available.

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Introducing Two New K-Centres: RoNLP and DR-LIB

We are pleased to announce the successful certification of two new Knowledge Centres.

 

 


 

RoNLP, the CLARIN K-centre for Romanian Natural Language Processing, is the first centre dedicated to the Romanian language. Hosted by the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, RoNLP offers a wealth of information and support for learners and researchers. Their support desk can assist with queries about data, tools, data processing models, and online repositories, as well as guide users through language processing topics such as information extraction, text mining, natural language processing and generation, topic modelling, and semantic change.  

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DR-LIB, the new K-centre for Digital Resources in the Languages in Ireland and Britain, will support researchers and others who want to find and use software programmes and digital datasets in the native languages of Britain and Ireland. DR-LIB is a joint initiative from Cardiff University, Dublin City University, the University of Edinburgh, Lancaster University, and the University of Oxford, and will also draw on a panel of experts across Europe. The centre aims to answer questions such as ‘Is there a semantic tagger for Welsh?’, ‘How do I do OCR for Scottish Gaelic?’, ‘Is there a corpus of Irish-language social media posts?’, and ‘Is there an online dictionary for Old English?’          

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New National Coordinator and Representative for Norway

Gunn Inger Lyse Samdal at the University of Bergen has been appointed as the new National Coordinator for Norway. She is replacing Koenraad De Smedt, who has represented Norway since 2006 and will retire from the University of Bergen in early 2025. Also starting this summer, the new Norwegian delegate in the General Assembly is Nina Teigland from the Norwegian Language Council, the state's consultative body on language-related issues.

 


CLARIN2023 Proceedings Now in CLARIN Zotero Library

All selected papers of last year’s Annual Conference can now be found online in the dedicated CLARIN Zotero library.

 

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B-Centre Recertification: Saarland University

We are pleased to announce that the CLARIN B-centre at Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany) has been recertified. The centre’s expertise lies in the creation and annotation of corpora, empirical corpus linguistics, language variation and register analysis.

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EVENTS & CALLS 


Call for Submissions: DHNB-2025 Digital Humanities in Nordic & Baltic Countries
5 - 7 March 2025, Tartu, Estonia

The 2025 Digital Humanities in Nordic & Baltic Countries Conference has the theme ‘Digital Dreams and Practices’. The event explores the synergy between dreams in digital humanities and their applications, addressing themes that affect both academia and society at large, such as the potential of AI and its integration with traditional humanities. 

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024

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Symposium 2024
21 - 23 October, 2024, Berlin Germany (hybrid event)

This event enables opportunities to  network and exchange ideas with policy makers, funders, and representatives of research institutions, research communities, and data- and e-Infrastructures active in the EOSC ecosystem.

Virtual registration is still open!

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Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
2 - 5 March 2025, Tallinn, Estonia

The on-site joint conference aims to bring together the communities of computational linguistics and human language technologies from the Nordic and Baltic regions and beyond. 

Deadline for submissions: 21 October 2024

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2025
19 January 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE

This workshop on for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, co-located with COLING2025, is for scholars working on topics related to the study of diatopic language variation from a computational perspective.

Deadline for submissions: 5 November 2024

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23rd Plenary Meeting
12 - 14 November 2024, San José, Costa Rica (hybrid event)

Under the header of ‘Sustainable Science’, this three-day conference will focus on some of the biggest data challenges of today, sharing new ideas and exploring best practices in using data.

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Conference on AI in Archives and Collections of Multimodal Cultural Heritage 
12 - 13 December 2024, Marburg, Germany

This interdisciplinary conference provides a forum for researchers from the humanities, archives and collections to connect with researchers in the fields of AI, computer science and the digital humanities, to exchange new findings and experiences.

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Call for Shared Tasks: RANLP2025
3 - 12 September 2025, Varna, Bulgaria

Recent Advances in Natural Languages Processing (RANLP2025) will be preceded by a summer school on Deep Learning and Large Language Models in NLP, as well as several tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting-edge technologies. The conference will be followed by selected workshops on specialised NLP topics, as well as shared tasks.

Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2024

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ICLC 2025
17 - 19 September 2025, Prague, Czechia

The 11th Contrastive Linguistics Conference 2025 (ICLC) conference series promotes fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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JOBS, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS


EOSC: Call for Candidates for Four Directors

A call for candidates for four director positions has been launched for the 2024 elections, which will take place during the 9th General Assembly of the EOSC Association.

Deadline for applications: 25 October 2024

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