Programme CLARIN Annual Conference 2024

The aim of this session is to give an introduction to the research infrastructure to those conference participants who are new to CLARIN and/or not yet familiar with CLARIN. After a brief introduction by one of its founders, Steven Krauwer, and an overview of the main services, the participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and try some of the services themselves. The workshop is organised by Steven Krauwer, Vincent Vandeghinste and Iulianna van der Lek.

This first industry track session in a CLARIN Annual Conference brings together academics, research infrastructure experts and industry representatives from the Spanish industry landscape specialising on AI and language technologies, as well as healthcare, customer support and telecommunications. The objective of the session is to build and open up bridges between industrial R&D, academic research and existing resource infrastructures such as CLARIN ERIC. The industry experts will provide their perspectives on the value of collaborating with academic institutions and research infrastructures to foster more effective knowledge, data and technology transfer in order to accelerate technological advancements and create broader societal benefits.

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, language stands at the intersection of technology and cultural identity. This talk explores the complex relationship between AI technologies and the world’s linguistic and cultural landscapes, emphasizing on the critical role of Machine Translation and generative AI in shaping the future of language diversity. We will discuss the impact of globalization on language use and the effects that English as a lingua franca may have on the preservation of linguistic diversity.
As AI-driven tools like machine translation and language processing become more sophisticated, they offer unprecedented opportunities for minority languages, potentially enabling speakers to communicate globally without sacrificing their native tongues. However, as we will explore, these technologies also pose significant challenges, including the risk of reinforcing the dominance of major languages and, crucially,  introducing cultural biases in AI models. These biases, which often go unnoticed, are rooted in the unequal representation of cultures in the training data and can contribute to the silent extinction of cultural diversity in the digital world.
We will also examine the implications of generative AI in the language marketplace, the evolving role of human translators, and the ethical considerations in developing inclusive and culturally aware AI systems. The talk will conclude by reflecting on the role of policymakers, researchers, and language communities in preserving our global linguistic and cultural heritage.

Anda Baklāne - Text collections as data at the National Library of Latvia

Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari and Valeria Quochi - REST services for Corpus management Annotation and SearcH

Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Paula Diez-Ibarbia and Patricia Martín-Chozas - The Spanish INESData and TeresIA Projects as Potential Contributors to CLARIN
 
Tess Dejaeghere, Pranaydeep Singh, Els Lefever and Julie Birkholz - On the creation of multilingual NER and ASBA workflows for literary-historical texts with chat-based LLMs

Kaja Dobrovoljc - Can’t See the Forest for the Trees: Infrastructure for Investigating Slovene Dependency Treebanks

Magnus Ahltorp and Maria Skeppstedt - Word Rain as a Service

Maria Skeppstedt and Magnus Ahltorp - Using Topics2Themes and Word Rain to visualise topics in Swedish news on climate change

Kiril Simov and Petya Osenova - Modeling events in Bulgarian: a Case Study

Elena Callegari, Agnes Sólmundsdóttir and Anton Karl Ingason - Preserving Privacy in Small Communities: Tailored Anonymization Techniques for Icelandic Conversational Data

Jon Alkorta, Aritz Farwell, Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Begoña Altuna, Ainara Estarrona, Mikel Iruskieta, Xabier Arregi, Xabier Goenaga and Jose Mari Arriola - CLARIAH-EUS: A Strategic Network Helping Basque Country Researchers to Participate in European Research Infrastructures

Costanza Navarretta, Dorte Haltrup Hansen and Bart Jongejan - Enriching the ParlaMint-DK corpus with Policy Domains

Bojana Mikelenić, Antoni Oliver and Marko Tadić - Expansion of the RomCro corpus with texts in Catalan

Dragoș Alexandru Bălan, Khiet Truong, Henk van den Heuvel and Roeland Ordelman - Benchmarking and Research Infrastructures: Evaluating Dutch Automatic Speech Recognition

Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak and Magdalena Jaszczyk-Grzyb - Automatic analysis of covert hate speech: A case study with a focus on sentiment analysis

Sylvie De Cock, Gaëtanelle Gilquin, Sylviane Granger, Pauline Jadoulle and Magali Paquot - Different registers, same learners: Towards a multi-register corpus of learner English

Roberta Bianca Luzietti, Riccardo Del Gratta, Valeria Quochi, Roberta Ottaviani, Daniele Carpita and Monica Monachini - CLARIN in the Italian Open Science Cloud: Landscaping and Community Engagement

Kerim Meijer and Menzo Windhouwer - The CLARIAH-NL FAIR Vocabulary Registry

Eliza Margaretha Illig, Nils Diewald, Paweł Kamocki and Marc Kupietz - Managing Access to Language Resources in a Corpus Analysis Platform

Joel C. Wallenberg, Anton Karl Ingason, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson - IcePaHC 2024.03 -- A Significant Treebank Upgrade

Gustaf Gren - Towards a Swedish Sign Language Dataset With Pose Estimation Information: Process and Challenges

Xabier Goenaga, Aritz Farwell, Joseba Fernandez de Landa and Xabier Arregi - Constructing the CLARIAH-EUS CLARIN B-Centre: First Steps

Bence Sárossy and Noémi Ligeti-Nagy - How to talk the talk? A comparative overview of keyword usage in Hungarian and Slovenian parliamentary corpora

Angel Daza and Antske Fokkens - Choosing the Right Tool for You: Informed Evaluation of Text Analysis Tools

Jennifer Ecker, Stefan Fischer, Pia Schwarz, Thorsten Trippel, Antonina Werthmann and Rebecca Wilm - Unlocking the Corpus: Enriching Metadata with State-of-the-Art NLP Methodology and Linked Data

Ingunn Jóhanna Kristjánsdóttir, Hafsteinn Einarsson and Anton Karl Ingason - Improving Phrase Structure Parsing for Icelandic