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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Deadline for applications is today, <br>
<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Friday
June 27th<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>! <br>
<br>
The Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus project <br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.talkofeurope.eu">www.talkofeurope.eu</a>) aims to
instigate pan-European <br>
collaboration by organizing three international creative camps in <br>
2014 and 2015. The first camp will be held 6-10 October at the <br>
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the <br>
Netherlands. <br>
<br>
The Talk of Europe (TOE) project is curating the proceedings of <br>
European Parliament (EP) from 1996 onwards, available in 21 <br>
languages, and converting these to RDF. Moreover, the data are <br>
enriched with biographical and political information on the <br>
speakers. Since the data are available in multilingual form, this <br>
dataset lends itself to be linked with resources in other <br>
European countries, such as parliamentary records or news <br>
reports. The RDF dataset and a SPARQL endpoint will be made <br>
available in September 2014. <br>
<br>
The creative camp intends to bring together developers and <br>
academic researchers, with the goal of making inventive use of <br>
the EP dataset, exploiting web and natural language processing <br>
techniques to add new knowledge and functionality to the dataset. <br>
The goal is to develop proof-of-concept tools that can be applied <br>
in scholarly research in the political sciences and humanities. <br>
<br>
The event will comprise five consecutive days, which will include <br>
1) presentations by humanities scholars and political scientists <br>
on how they use political datasets, 2) presentations by computer <br>
scientists showing best practices from other projects and 3) <br>
practical sessions for tool development. <br>
<br>
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS <br>
<br>
In order to participate, the TOE organisers welcome proposals <br>
describing ambitions for research tools and/or links with other <br>
datasets. Submissions should describe the following: <br>
<br>
<br>
- General description of idea (should not exceed 1000 words) <br>
including: <br>
- The research tool to be developed. <br>
- The datasets to be used. <br>
- The scholarly research problem or question to be <br>
addressed. <br>
- Contact info and a short description of research <br>
interests for all participants who would like to <br>
attend. <br>
- A work plan to indicate feasibility of proof-of-concept <br>
creation in 5 days. <br>
- A description of how the tool will be made available after the <br>
creative camp. <br>
<br>
For inspiration, please see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp/inspiration">www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp/inspiration</a>.
<br>
To submit a proposal, please send a docx or pdf file to <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:kemman@eshcc.eur.nlbefore">kemman@eshcc.eur.nlbefore</a>
20 June 2014. Accepted proposals will <br>
be made available on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.talkofeurope.eu">www.talkofeurope.eu</a>. <br>
<br>
CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE <br>
<br>
- Participants must work in a European country. Proposals from <br>
developers and academic researchers from one of the following <br>
CLARIN ERIC member or observer countries are particularly <br>
welcome: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, <br>
Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Dutch Language Union. <br>
- Participants are not required to have already been involved <br>
with CLARIN. <br>
- Master or PhD students, academics further in their career and <br>
non-academic developers are welcome. <br>
- Proposals that include international collaboration will be <br>
prioritized. <br>
- Datasets to be linked with the EP data may be from any type or <br>
source. Proposals with datasets available in <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/">http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/</a>
are particularly welcome. <br>
- Proposals will be ranked to create a distribution of geography <br>
of participants, language and type of tools <br>
<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES <br>
<br>
Submissions due: Friday 20 June <br>
Acceptance notification: Friday 27 June <br>
Creative camp: Monday 6 - Friday 10 October 2014 (5 days) <br>
<br>
LOCATION <br>
<br>
The first creative camp will be held at Netherlands Institute for <br>
Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the Netherlands. <br>
<br>
BURSARIES <br>
<br>
The TOE organisers will offer bursaries for all participants to <br>
cover all expenses of travel to the venue and staying in the <br>
hotel in the period of Sunday 5 until Saturday 11 October 2014. <br>
<br>
FURTHER INFORMATION <br>
<br>
Visit the website <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.talkofeurope.eu">www.talkofeurope.eu</a>. For
further information and <br>
questions, please contact Max Kemman (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kemman@eshcc.eur.nl">kemman@eshcc.eur.nl</a>).
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Martin Wynne
IT Services, University of Oxford
Oxford e-Research Centre
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics
Director of User Involvement, CLARIN ERIC
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk">martin.wynne@it.ox.ac.uk</a>
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