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CLARIN Annual Conference 2024

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About the CLARIN Annual Conference

The CLARIN Annual Conference is the main annual event for those working on the construction and operation of CLARIN across Europe, as well as for representatives of the communities of use in the humanities and social sciences.

The CLARIN Conference 2024 was a hybrid event. Virtual attendance was open to the wider public. The conference has taken place in Barcelona, Spain. The event was organised and hosted by CLARIN ERIC, in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES.

CLARIN2024 was organised for the wider humanities and social sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences within the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or for which there is a need, its actual use by researchers and teachers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure.

We were pleased to welcome authors of accepted papers, members of national consortia and representatives of CLARIN centres, representatives from partner organisations, and many others who are interested in becoming part of the CLARIN community.

Registration

The 2024 CLARIN Annual Conference has taken place as a hybrid event. Virtual attendance was open to the wider public.

Calls

Call for Abstracts (closed)
Nominations Steven Krauwer Awards 2024 (closed)
PhD Student Session 
CLARIN Bazaar (registered participants only)

Programme

The conference has run from Tuesday 15 October, 16:00 CEST, until Thursday 17 October, 14:00 CEST. Closed meetings of CLARIN committees have preceded the event on Tuesday between 9:00 and 15:30 CEST.
 
The full programme of CLARIN2024 lists all sessions and events in detail.

Keynotes

Maite Melero leads the Machine Translation research group in the Language Technologies Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Her primary research interests include unsupervised methods for machine translation, and the detection and mitigation of bias in translation models. She has a strong commitment to minority languages and accessibility and serves on the board of the Special Interest Group on Underresourced Languages (SIGUL), which organizes annual scientific workshops. Additionally, she is part of the Organizing Committee for the forthcoming UNESCO-sponsored conference, LT4All 2025. In 2006 she obtained a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, with a thesis titled "Combining Machine Learning and Rule-Based Approaches in Spanish Syntactic Generation". Before joining BSC, she held research positions at the University of Barcelona, the Institut d'Estudis Catalans, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Microsoft Research. In 2017 she co-authored the report "Language Equality in the Digital Age" commissioned by the European Parliament. In 2021, she coordinated a special issue on language technologies and language diversity published by Linguapax International. She frequently speaks on the impact of technology on the preservation of linguistic diversity and minority languages.
 

Over the past three decades, Steven Bird has been working with minoritised people groups in Africa, Melanesia, Amazonia, and Australia, and exploring how people keep their oral languages and cultures strong. He has held academic appointments at Edinburgh, UPenn, Berkeley, and Melbourne. Steven established the ACL Anthology, the Open Language Archives Community and the Natural Language Toolkit, and is past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Since 2017 he has been research professor at Charles Darwin University, where he collaborates with Indigenous leaders and directs the Top End Language Lab. Steven pursues other language-related projects at http://aikuma.org.

 

 

Proceedings

 
All abstracts are published in the Conference Proceedings.

Presenter Guidelines

Presenters of thematic sessions, PhD-students session and Bazaar posters or demonstration are advised to take a look at the presenter guidelines, which include information about sending slides to the organisers, available equipment, and more.

Arriving in Barcelona

On this page we have provided a detailed overview of how to reach the conference venue. We advice you to consult it prior to your arrival. You can also download the instructions as a PDF file. 

In case you're looking to do some sightseeing around Barcelona in between conference sessions or before a conference dinner, we've gathered some recommendations on this page.

Code of Conduct

CLARIN aims to create a respectful, safe and inclusive environment for all participants of the CLARIN Annual Conference. CLARIN thus adopts this code of conduct to ensure all participants, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, appearance, ethnicity, race, national origin, age, religion, or any other protected categories under applicable law, can interact in an open and welcoming environment. All participants are expected to behave with integrity and respect towards other participants attending the conference in-person or online.
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