Description
These awards, named in honour of Steven Krauwer (the first Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC) are given annually to scientists or engineers in recognition of outstanding contributions toward CLARIN goals in the areas of:
- language resource building
- tool or service development
- exemplary use cases
- user involvement
- knowledge sharing
The current call for the Steven Krauwer Awards can be found on this year's conference page.
Categories
Steven Krauwer Awards can be granted in the following categories:
1. Early career CLARIN Researcher. The intended goal of this award is to promote an early career person or group of
cooperating persons. This awards comes with a certificate and a prize of 500 Euro.
2. CLARIN Achievement. The intended goal of this award is to recognize the work of a person or a group of cooperating people. The award comes with a certificate.
Selection
The award recipients are selected by the National Coordinators’ Forum (NCF) of CLARIN ERIC.
Overview of previous winners
2024 Winners
Jan Odijk (left) is full professor emeritus of language and speech technology at the University of Utrecht, and director of CLARIAH, The Netherlands.
Mikko Tolonen is professor in computational history at the University of Helsinki, Eetu Mäkelä is associate professor in human sciences and computing interaction at the University of Helsinki, Jukka Suomela is professor in computer science at Aalto University, and Jouni Tuominen (right) is a researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Helsinki. Read more
2023 Winners
Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson is a professor emeritus at the University of Iceland. Over the past two decades, Rögnvaldsson has played a vital role in language technology in Iceland, actively working towards Icelandic being included in digital language developments.
Johan Frid is a researcher specialising in language technology at the Humanities Lab at Lund University in Sweden. Frid has actively been contributing to the CLARIN infrastructure since the establishment of the Swedish node SWE-Clarin in 2015. Specifically, he has played a role in developing and applying language technology tools and methods that can be used when exploring and analysing data in innovative ways. This has raised the scientific impact of several fields of investigation and led to many new funding opportunities.
2022 Winners
Roberts Darģis is a PhD candidate at the University of Latvia (UL) and researcher at Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia (IMCS UL), the leading CLARIN-LV partner. Darģis’ efforts with regards to CLARIN have been manifold: Not only is Darģis a member of Standing Committee for CLARIN Technical Centres (SCCTC), he is also a contributor to CLARIN’s flagship project ParlaMint, the Latvian corpora platform Korpuss.lv, and involved in the development and integration of Latvian NLP tools.
CLARIN Achievements
The u4u team, led by Martin Popel, at Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at Charles University has developed a translation tool for Czech and Ukrainian in order to support Ukrainians in the current situation of war. The translator is publicly available and designed to help those from Ukraine to overcome the language barrier and to navigate the Czech environment.
2021 Winner
2020 Winners
Francesca Frontini has been particularly active in spreading the CLARIN word and helping CLARIN grow. She participated in the preparatory phase of CLARIN-IT and has been active in various CLARIN committees and task forces.
Tomasz Walkowiak has become one of the main designers of the concept and architecture of the CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre. With his knowledge and experience in the field of NLP and software engineering he has been very prominently involved into the Polish in kind contribution to CLARIN ERIC.
2019 Winners
CLARIN has benefitted exceptionally from Menzo’s contributions. He has made outstanding contributions toward CLARIN goals in the areas of language resource building, tool or service development, exemplary use cases, user involvement and knowledge sharing.
2018 Winners
The 2018 Steven Krauwer Award for CLARIN Achievements was awarded to Daan Broeder (Meertens Institute, KNAW)). Daan brought his rich knowledge and expertise into CLARIN from the very start. He was involved in a range of national and international projects and activities that are highly relevant to CLARIN, both on a technical and non-technical level.
2017 Winner
2016 Winner
2015 Winner
2014 Winner
