[Corpora-List] CfP: The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN workshop

[Yvonne Adesam]

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The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN workshop
LT-based e-HSS in Sweden – taking stock and looking ahead

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.

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.

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.

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.

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):

- specific e-HSS projects
- digitization efforts involving intangible cultural heritage
- 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)
- multilingual aspects of LT-based e-HSS
- efforts to create workflows and effective user interfaces
- research questions relevant to the LT-based e-HSS paradigm
- how to reconcile large-scale quantitative and "close-reading" qualitative
research methods

Important dates

- First call for papers: 19th June 2014
- Second call for papers/Submission opens: 4th August 2014
- Deadline for submissions: 8th September 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 6th October 2014
- Workshop: 13th November 2014, 9–12am

Workshop organizers

- Johanna Berg, Digisam
- Lars Borin, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg
- Rickard Domeij, the Swedish Language Council
- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
- David House, KTH
- Hans Jørgen Marker, SND
- Magnus Merkel, Linköping University
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
- Mats Wirén, Stockholm University

More information will be available from
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws>
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws>
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