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    <p>Dear colleagues,<br>
      <br>
      There are one or two slots available for presentations at the
      workshop on linguistic diversity and digital infrastructures at
      Hamburg University in just four weeks, September 20-21
      (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://inel.corpora.uni-hamburg.de/?p=1642">https://inel.corpora.uni-hamburg.de/?p=1642</a>). The workshop is
      organized in the framework of the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for
      linguistic diversity and language documentation (CKLD, <a
        href="http://ckld.uni-koeln.de/">http://ckld.uni-koeln.de/</a>),
      you will find the workshop description below. <br>
      <br>
      In case you're interested in presenting a paper, please send the
      title and a short (1-2 para) description to <a
        href="mailto:alexandre.arkhipov@uni-hamburg.de">alexandre.arkhipov@uni-hamburg.de</a>
      no later than August 31.<br>
      <br>
      The workshop will be held in a lunch-to-lunch format (afternoon
      20.09 + morning 21.09). 45 min will be allotted for each
      presentation including discussion.<br>
      <br>
      Best regards,<br>
      Alexandre Arkhipov</p>
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      id="docs-internal-guid-87514ad5-7fff-24d0-ecec-2314c09795d8"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Linguistic diversity, minority languages and digital research infrastructures</span></h1>
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    <p dir="ltr"
      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hamburg, September 20-21 2018</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The workshop addresses the requirements on and potential of current developments in digital research infrastructures for the Humanities for research within the fields of linguistic diversity, minority and endangered languages, and further related so called ‘small disciplines’.</span></p>
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      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Contributions will focus on experiences from linguistic research projects and discuss</span></p>
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      <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">solutions for representing and modelling multilingual and non-standardised (in particular spoken) language data in highly standardised environments </span></p></li>
      <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">opportunities and limits of automated methods in language processing, especially considering multilingualism, orality and language variation</span></p></li>
      <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">usage increase, which includes</span></p></li>
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        <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">solutions and strategies (in terms of interfaces or dissemination channels) to gain new users in neighbour disciplines (i. e. Area Studies, Anthropology etc.) </span></p></li>
        <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">making data available to scientific and non-scientific audiences, including speaker communities, in various regions of the world</span></p></li>
        <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">promoting the use of digital linguistic resources in teaching and scholarly publications (with respect to discoverability, citability, recognition of digital resources as publications, etc.)</span></p></li>
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