The Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities - A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs and Språkbanken, The Swedish language bank have been awarded the B-centre status. Congratulations!
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The Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana (CJVT) and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI organise the conference “Language Technologies and Digital Humanities” on 20-21 September 2018.
Find out more about CLARIN DLU/Flanders, a founding member of CLARIN that represents Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.
With this Special Issue of the CLARIN Newsflash we would like to highlight two important news items from the upcoming February Newsflash, that require urgent attention due to their deadlines.
A metadata curation meeting, attended by 14 representatives of various CLARIN-affiliated institutions, was held with the aim to establish a value normalisation scheme for selected facets in the on the basis of an agreed-upon controlled vocabulary, as well as to perform hands-on work on normalisation. Read more in this blog post by Jakob Lenardič.
We’re looking to hire an experienced Financial Assistant (0.6 – 1.0 FTE) who feels at home in an (international) scientific environment and is able to support the Financial Officer in managing financial-related tasks for CLARIN .
On 30 January 2018, Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) co-hosted a workshop in Brussels to discuss how to manage research data in an era of Open Science. The initiative was also presented and discussed at this workshop, which gathered over a hundred interested participants from the EU institutions, research organisations, and data expert groups, including CLARIN Executive Director Fransicka de Jong.
Tour de CLARIN highlights prominent User Involvement (UI) activities of a particular CLARIN national consortium. This time the focus is on Poland and Dr Maciej Maryl, the Deputy Director of the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
A budget of € 20.000 is available for (co-)financing of CLARIN User Involvement events to be organized by representatives of the national consortia.
The PARTHENOS e-Humanities and e-Heritage Webinar Series provide an opportunity to explore the new possibilities arising from the digital and infrastructural developments in the Humanities and Cultural Heritage research.
Learn more about plWordNet (Polish Słowosieć), a (large) lexico-semantic network reflecting (the current content and structure of) the Polish lexical system and inspired by the Princeton University WordNet – the very first wordnet, which has been in development since the 1980s.
Blogpost about the CLARIN workshop on Interoperability of Second Language Resources and Tools written by Elena Volodina, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg (Swe-Clarin).
The book CLARIN in the Low Countries has been published. This book (Odijk, van Hessen eds.) describes the results of activities undertaken to construct the CLARIN research infrastructure in the Netherlands and in Flanders.
Find out more about the series of workshops and lectures titled “ CLARIN-PL in Research Practice” organized by CLARIN-PL since 2015.
Blogpost by Jozef Misutka from Czech LINDAT/CLARIN who received a CLARIN Mobility Grant in October 2017 to visit the CLARIN.SI team at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Together with DARIAH and the DHBenelux 2018 organisers we are looking into organising an unshared task at # DHBenelux2018. Help us to find out what the community needs are by filling out this short survey.
Call for Abstracts CLARIN2018 still open. Submission deadline extended to April 30, 2018.
Find out more about WebSty, a powerful web-based system for stylometric, semantic and comparative analysis of texts.
In this issue: 4.3 released, Security-related maintenance, CLARIN-PLUS Deliverables, Short news
