The following institutions have been jointly officially recognized as CLARIN K-Centre DANSK - DANish helpdeSK: CST, DNSL, DSN.
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We are pleased to announce that our office has moved to a new location within the Faculty of Humanities of the Utrecht University. Our new address is Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, the Netherlands.
With the recently certified Knowledge Centre on speech data (CLARIN-SPEECH), we now have a total of four K-Centres, all established in 2015, and exemplifying the range of K-Centres that is possible.
Redundant setup for Discovery Service. The CLARIN Discovery Service is now running on two independent servers, with a failover setup. In practice this means that maintenance (restarting the server, updates, etc.) can be done while the service in question remains available. A similar setup is planned for the CLARIN Identity Provider.
An article by Petra Kralj Novak et al describes an analysis of 70,000 tweets in 13 languages, in which they assigned a sentiment score and neutrality level to 751 emoji, the popular characters which feature in much on-line communication. The research has attracted widespread attention, with an
Congratulations to LINDAT/CLARIN (Czech Republic) who has been successfully re-assessed as CLARIN B-Centre! The first round of renewal of the certificate for the established B-Centre has been successfully concluded. The centre has been assessed again according to the current criteria, in a process
Congratulations to the CLARIN.SI Language Technology Centre and the CLARINO Bergen Center who have now been officially recognized as CLARIN B Centres! After a thorough procedure in which they have been assessed externally by the Data Seal of Approval and internally by CLARIN's assessment committee
At the end of December 2015 CLARIN-LT has celebrated their first anniversary of Lithuania joining CLARIN . To commemorate this event a seminar took place at the Vytautas Magnus University to overview the activities and achievements of CLARIN-LT consortium after Lithuania’s one year of membership
There will be 4 workshops over the next two years as part of the CLARIN-PLUS project, which will focus on using CLARIN in research. To ensure that we make a success of these events, we need to draw on the collective knowledge of the CLARIN network to identify successful applications of language and speech technology in these domains.
November and December were busy months for CLARIN.SI, especially in the area of user engagement. In cooperation with the Slovenian research project JANES (Resources, Tools and Methods for the Research of Nonstandard Internet Slovenian), the Slovenian Language Technologies Society, and the Swiss project ReLDI (Regional Linguistic Data Initiative) we organised the Conference Slovenian on the Web and in New Media on 25–27 November 2015 in Ljubljana.
As of today, the 71 Italian Identity Providers have been added to the Service Provider Federation. This means that all users with an account at one of these academic organisations can use federated login to access the password-protected CLARIN services, e.g. the recently added Corpuscle corpus analysis system.
On 19 and 20 November the CLARIN General Assembly had its annual meeting in Copenhagen. The meeting counted 31 participants from 17 countries (including the CLARIN ERIC Board of Directors), several more than last year.
We are happy to announce that Finland has joined CLARIN on 1 November 2015, becoming its 17th full member.
As announced at the latest centre committee meeting, the deadline to participate in the 6th assessment round is 19 November. Please note that the B-centre checklist has been slightly revised (some URLs were updated). If you have not started yet, please use the latest version of the checklist.
On September 24, 2015, the Czech National Consortium LINDAT/CLARIN organized a one-day Digital Humanities Workshop in Prague. The workshop took place under the auspices of the Czech Ministry of education, youth and sport and it was supported also by the EHRI and CESSDA research infrastructures. The
The 2015 CLARIN Young Scientist Award has been awarded to Maarten van Gompel of the Radboud University Nijmegen for his groundbreaking work on FoLiA and CLAM. The award ceremony took place at the annual CLARIN Conference, held this year in Wrocław, Poland.
We are happy to announce that Italy has joined CLARIN on 1 October 2015, becoming its 16th full member.
As of 1 September 2015, Prof. dr. Franciska de Jong has taken up her post of Executive Director of CLARIN .
Norway joined the CLARIN on 1 Oct 2015, bringing the total number of full members up to fifteen.
The facted browser, now at its new host vlo.clarin.eu, has been upgraded to version 3.3. The major addition to this version is the support for advanced querying.