[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus - Extended deadline Fri June 27th almost over

[Martin Wynne]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - Deadline for applications is today,
*Friday June 27th*!

The Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus project
(www.talkofeurope.eu) aims to instigate pan-European
collaboration by organizing three international creative camps in
2014 and 2015. The first camp will be held 6-10 October at the
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the
Netherlands.

The Talk of Europe (TOE) project is curating the proceedings of
European Parliament (EP) from 1996 onwards, available in 21
languages, and converting these to RDF. Moreover, the data are
enriched with biographical and political information on the
speakers. Since the data are available in multilingual form, this
dataset lends itself to be linked with resources in other
European countries, such as parliamentary records or news
reports. The RDF dataset and a SPARQL endpoint will be made
available in September 2014.

The creative camp intends to bring together developers and
academic researchers, with the goal of making inventive use of
the EP dataset, exploiting web and natural language processing
techniques to add new knowledge and functionality to the dataset.
The goal is to develop proof-of-concept tools that can be applied
in scholarly research in the political sciences and humanities.

The event will comprise five consecutive days, which will include
1) presentations by humanities scholars and political scientists
on how they use political datasets, 2) presentations by computer
scientists showing best practices from other projects and 3)
practical sessions for tool development.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

In order to participate, the TOE organisers welcome proposals
describing ambitions for research tools and/or links with other
datasets. Submissions should describe the following:


- General description of idea (should not exceed 1000 words)
   including:
         - The research tool to be developed.
         - The datasets to be used.
         - The scholarly research problem or question to be
           addressed.
         - Contact info and a short description of research
           interests for all participants who would like to
           attend.
- A work plan to indicate feasibility of proof-of-concept
   creation in 5 days.
- A description of how the tool will be made available after the
   creative camp.

For inspiration, please see www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp/inspiration.
To submit a proposal, please send a docx or pdf file to
kemman at eshcc.eur.nlbefore 20 June 2014. Accepted proposals will
be made available on www.talkofeurope.eu.

CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE

- Participants must work in a European country. Proposals from
   developers and academic researchers from one of the following
   CLARIN ERIC member or observer countries are particularly
   welcome: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
   Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Dutch Language Union.
- Participants are not required to have already been involved
   with CLARIN.
- Master or PhD students, academics further in their career and
   non-academic developers are welcome.
- Proposals that include international collaboration will be
   prioritized.
- Datasets to be linked with the EP data may be from any type or
   source. Proposals with datasets available in
http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/ are particularly welcome.
- Proposals will be ranked to create a distribution of geography
   of participants, language and type of tools


IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: Friday 20 June
Acceptance notification: Friday 27 June
Creative camp: Monday 6 - Friday 10 October 2014 (5 days)

LOCATION

The first creative camp will be held at Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

BURSARIES

The TOE organisers will offer bursaries for all participants to
cover all expenses of travel to the venue and staying in the
hotel in the period of Sunday 5 until Saturday 11 October 2014.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit the website www.talkofeurope.eu. For further information and
questions, please contact Max Kemman (kemman at eshcc.eur.nl).

-- 
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

martin.wynne at it.ox.ac.uk


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