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'Reflections on the CLARIN-PLUS workshop "Creation and Use of Social Media Resources' by Adrien Barbaresi / 30 August 2017
The H2020-project CLARIN-PLUS is related to the European research infrastructure CLARIN-ERIC. One of its goals is to promote networking and scientific events among various communities of researchers. In this context, the workshop dedicated to "Creation and Use of Social Media Resources", held on the 18 and 19 May 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania, was a good occasion to gather specialists from various countries working on comparable language data, from microblogs and short messages to online communication platforms. |
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'Empirical data in linguistics' by Ana Slavec and Jakob Lenardič / 17 July 2017From 21 to 23 June 2017, the national project JANES in cooperation with the Slovene consortium CLARIN.SI organized the fifth ReLDI seminar “Empirical data in linguistics”. The seminar, which took place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana, was attended by 50 participants from 5 former Yugoslavian republics.
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'CLARIN-PLUS Workshop on User Involvement by FIN-CLARIN' by Tero Aalto (FIN-CLARIN) / 20 June 2017The fourth type I CLARIN-PLUS workshop for new countries and consortia was organized by FIN-CLARIN in Helsinki 8-9 June. The topic of the workshop was user involvement, and it was aimed at the people responsible for user involvement activities in the national consortia. A total of 23 participants from all over Europe came together to discuss new ideas and best practices to engage existing users of CLARIN services, and to discover and to attract new ones. |
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'Impressions of CLARIN-LT on the CLARIN-PLUS Workshop on Social Media Resources' by CLARIN-LT / 20 June 2017In May 2017, CLARIN-LT hosted the CLARIN-PLUS Workshop “Creation and Use of Social Media Resources “in Kaunas, Lithuania, the fourth and final workshop in a series of user involvement workshops within the CLARIN-PLUS project. The aim of the workshop was to gather researchers interested in social media data from computational linguistics, social sciences, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, language variation and other research domains, so that they could share their ideas on a number of themes and topics. |
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'Reflections on CLARIN workshop on Oral History in Arezzo' by Bianca Pastori / 23 May 2017The recent CLARIN workshop took place in Arezzo on 10-12 May 2017 at the Department of Education, Human Sciences and Intercultural Communication – Siena University, Campus ‘Il Pionta’. The topic of the workshop was Oral History Transcription Chain. As a member of the Italian Oral History Association (AISO) I was invited by CLARIN to discuss technologies that could help scholars and researchers managing oral sources, which I found attractive and compelling opportunity. |
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'Reflections on CLARIN-PLUS workshop in Sofia' by Martijn Kleppe / 10 April 2017At the end of March 2017 some 35 researchers gathered in Sofia, Bulgaria, to discuss scholarly work based on parliamentary data in digital format (see image, taken on 28 March 2017). Central questions included: What are the opportunities and challenges for researchers working with parliamentary records within different disciplines? How might digital parliamentary collections be improved in terms of accessibility / usability / searchability / other? And how could parliamentary collections from different parliaments be linked? |
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