From 29 September to 1 October 2026, the annual CLARIN conference took place in Brighton (United Kingdom), providing an overview of innovations in research infrastructure and outlining future development directions. Participants also learned about the latest language technology tools and resources, as well as ongoing research projects.
At this conference, CLARIN-LT researchers Andrius Utka (VDU, SITTI), Sigita Rackevičienė (MRU), Jurgita Vaičenonienė (VDU, SITTI), Andrius Puksas (VDU, SITTI), and PhD student Aušra Urbanavičiūtė (VDU) participated in meetings of various working groups and committees and delivered presentations.
Andrius Utka, Aušra Urbanavičiūtė, Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Sigita Rackevičienė, Andrius Puksas
Presentations by CLARIN-LT researchers:
1) Jurgita Vaičenonienė and Vesna Lušicky — presentation “K-centres Annual Report”. K-centre Workshop at CLARIN2026 https://www.clarin.eu/event/2026/k-centre-workshop-clarin2026;
2) Jurgita Vaičenonienė — presentation “Visibility plans and addressing new needs of K-centres’ domains”. Good Practice. K-centre Workshop at CLARIN2026 https://www.clarin.eu/event/2026/k-centre-workshop-clarin2026;
3) Jurgita Vaičenonienė and Vesna Lušicky — presentation “CLARIN K-Centre Reports (2020-2025): Trends, Achievements and Challenges”;
4) Aušra Urbanavičiūtė — “Building a Lithuanian Corpus of Migration Discourse (MiPar-LT)”;
5) Jolanta Kovalevskaitė and Erika Rimkutė — “New Lithuanian Language Resources” (Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Erika Rimkutė, Andrius Utka, and Jurgita Vaičenonienė);
6) Pawel Kamocki, Joanna Blochowiak, Anna Gosławska, Jan Hajic, Mateja Jemec Tomazin, Aleksei Kelli, Erik Ketzan, Saskia Lensink, Krister Lindén, Costanza Navarretta, Noémia Peres De Bessa Vilela, Andrius Puksas, Walter Scholger, Pavel Straˇnák, and Benito Trollip — poster presentation “International Perspectives on Copyright in LLM Training” https://www.clarin.eu/content/programme-clarin-annual-conference-2026;
7) Iulianna van der Lek, Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Petya Osenova, Valeria Quochi, Maria Gavriilidou, Tanja Wissik, Thalassia Kontino — poster presentation “Embedding CLARIN in University Curricula: Recommendations from a Community Workshop” https://zenodo.org/records/23100119.
We are delighted to announce that Assoc. Prof. Jurgita Vaičenonienė was officially elected Chair of the Programme Committee for the annual CLARIN conference 2027.
The next CLARIN ERIC conference will take place on 28–30 September 2027 in Malmö (Sweden).
More information about the CLARIN conference 2026 is available here.
The conference programme can be found here.
The proceedings of the CLARIN conference 2026 can be accessed here.
As in previous years, this year’s event was filmed, and the recordings will soon be available to view on the CLARIN channel.
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