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CLARIN has received two years funding from the EC for a stronger central technical hub, an improved website and for bringing in new countries and user communities. The kick-off meeting on 9th September brought most key participants together.

 

The CLARIN Young Scientist Award is given annually to an outstanding young scientist or engineer in recognition of major contributions to the areas of language resource building, tool development, and knowledge sharing.

 

The conference proceedings in this volume present a selection of the highlights of the CLARIN 2014 Annual Conference in which members of the CLARIN community share their experiences and results.

 
Talk of Europe Creative Camp

CLARIN has some very diverse communities of current and potential users. How should we identify them, and how should we prioritize them in our outreach activities?

 
Collage of CLARIN-UK members

The UK is the latest addition to the fast-growing CLARIN family, joining as an Observer in July 2015.

 
CLARIN Services snapshot

Looking for language data and tools? CLARIN offers a number of ways for you to find and use a variety of software applications for language processing and sets of linguistic data. Whether you're looking for a parser for Estonian, transcription tools for spoken Swedish, optical character recognition

 
14th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

The 14th edition of TLT will take place at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, on 11–12 December 2015.

 
Clarin-D Centres

The first round of renewal of the certificate for established B-Centres has been successfully concluded: all nine German CLARIN B-Centres have been assessed again.

 
CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre

The Language Technology Centre CL-PL at the Wrocław University of Technology has now been officially recognized as CLARIN B Centre.

 

Using CLARIN webservices can speed up the manual annotation process significantly.

 

The new Virtual Language Observatory features user interface refinements, mapping improvements – including the addition of a new facet that helps with finding resources with specific availability levels – and a revised search result ranking strategy.

 
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We are happy to announce that Slovenia has joined CLARIN ! The research infrastructure CLARIN.SI was established as a Slovene research infrastructure in 2013 and became a member of CLARIN ERIC in May 2015.

 

The call for participation for our third and final creative camp is now online. The third camp will be held 26-30 October 2015 at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague, the Netherlands.

 

Applications are invited from researchers and developers for support of short visits ((typical duration: one week) between representatives of CLARIN sites to collaborate on building and using the CLARIN infrastructure.

 
The Bazaar at the CLARIN Conference 2015

Do you have a cool new CLARIN webapp or software application that you want to demonstrate? Are you looking for collaborators for a new research project? Have you had a good idea for user engagement? Have you been experimenting with a new approach? Then sign up for the CLARIN bazaar!

 
CLARIN-PL Workshop for humanities and social sciences

It is a busy spring for CLARIN in Poland! CLARIN-PL has launched a series of intensive workshops, tailored to the needs of researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and of translators.

 
Artistic summary of the day's discussions

The NeDiMAH Conference ‘ Beyond the Digital Humanities’ was held at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, on Tuesday 5th May 2015. NeDiMAH is the final project of the European Science Foundation, backed by research funders in a large number of European countries. This four-year long

 

Upcoming Centre meeting: please register! For the Centre Meeting at 28 and 29 May we would like to remind you to register before next Friday. After that date we cannot guarantee there will still be places available. As part of the agenda depends on preferences indicated by participants we will also

 

We are happy to announce that the following institutions have been jointly officially recognized as the Spanish CLARIN K Centre: CLARIN Competence Centre IULA-UPF and HDLab@UPF, Department of Humanities (at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) UNED – LINHD: Laboratorio de innovación en Humanidades

 

New CLARIN members Recently, both Portugal and Greece have joined CLARIN. A warm welcome to our new consortia and centres! New B-centres Huygens ING and Talkbank have been awarded the B-centre status. Congratulations! Recent server issues On Thursday afternoon www.clarin.eu and the CLARIN mailing