[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus

[Martin Wynne]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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).


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