<div dir="ltr"><span>Apologies for <em>cross postings. Please distribute as appropriate.<br></em></span><br><font size="-1"><big><big>The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN
workshop</big><br>
LT-based e-HSS in Sweden – taking stock and looking ahead</big><br>
<br>
CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)
was established by the European Commission as an ERIC (European
Research Infrastructure Consortium) in 2012. In 2013,
Vetenskapsrådet (the Swedish Research Council) approved a proposal
for Swedish membership in CLARIN, including a Swedish national
CLARIN organization. The process of setting up SWE-CLARIN is
ongoing, and it is likely that Sweden will be able to join the
CLARIN ERIC during 2014.<br>
<br>
CLARIN aims at making language-based material available as primary
research data to the humanities and social sciences (HSS) research
communities with the help of the sophisticated language and speech
processing tools and language resources (LRs) that have been
developed over many years through research in language technology
(LT), and taking advantage of the fact that increasing amounts of
text and speech material – including historical material – are
available in digital form, thus allowing for the utilization of
unprecedented volumes of text and speech data in HSS research. The
expectation is that this LT-based e-HSS paradigm will lead to
completely new kinds of research as well as to new ways of
addressing old research questions.<br>
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This first national Swedish CLARIN workshop is organized in
conjunction with SLTC 2014, the Fifth Swedish Language Technology
Conference, in Uppsala on the morning of the 13th of November
2014. The purpose of the workshop is to take stock of ongoing
activities falling within the remit of SWE-CLARIN, as well as to
look ahead, by formulating needs to be filled and research avenues
to be explored over the upcoming years.<br>
<br>
We invite contributions for either 10-minute oral presentations or
poster presentations. Posters will typically describe ongoing or
completed work, while oral presentations will be expected to
describe needed or planned work. Both kinds of submissions should
be in the form of an extended abstract (3-5 pages in the
COLING/NoDaLiDa format). Accepted abstracts will be published on
the workshop website prior to the workshop.<br>
<br>
In line with the exploratory nature of this first national
SWE-CLARIN workshop, we welcome submissions describing completed,
ongoing, and planned e-HSS work – crucially involving the use of
LT and LRs – on (but not limited to):<br></font><br><font size="-1">- specific e-HSS projects<br>
- digitization efforts involving intangible cultural heritage<br>
- concrete efforts as well as general methodology development
aiming at adaptation of LT and LRs to, e.g., historical or
non-standard language varieties and genres (e.g., social media)<br>
- multilingual aspects of LT-based e-HSS<br>
- efforts to create workflows and effective user interfaces<br>
- research questions relevant to the LT-based e-HSS paradigm<br>
- how to reconcile large-scale quantitative and "close-reading"
qualitative research methods<br>
<br>
Important dates<br>
<br>
- First call for papers: 19th June 2014<br>
- Second call for papers/Submission opens: 4th August 2014<br>
- Deadline for submissions: 8th September 2014<br>
- Notification of acceptance: 6th October 2014<br>
- Workshop: 13th November 2014, 9–12am<br>
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Workshop organizers<br>
<br>
- Johanna Berg, Digisam<br>
- Lars Borin, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg<br>
- Rickard Domeij, the Swedish Language Council<br>
- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University<br>
- David House, KTH<br>
- Hans Jørgen Marker, SND<br>
- Magnus Merkel, Linköping University<br>
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University<br>
- Mats Wirén, Stockholm University<br>
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More information will be available from<br>
<a href="http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws" target="_blank"><http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws></a></font></div>