CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the 6th CLARIN Annual Conference and invites submission of papers.<\/p>\n
LOCATION
\nThe 6th CLARIN Annual Conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary.<\/p>\n
IMPORTANT DATES
\n* 1st February, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First call published and submission system open
\n* 1st May, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Submission deadline
\n* 24th June, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notification of acceptance
\n* 1st September, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Final version of extended abstracts due
\n* 18th\u201320th September 2017\u00a0\u00a0 CLARIN Annual Conference<\/p>\n
CONFERENCE AIMS
\nThe CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the Humanities and Social Sciences community in order to exchange ideas and experiences on the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes its design, construction and operation, the data and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure.<\/p>\n
CONFERENCE TOPICS
\nOperation and use of the CLARIN infrastructure, e.g.
\n* Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in humanities research, including needs for updated and new\u00a0\u00a0 functionality
\n* Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services
\n* Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage, identification of user audience and impact studies
\n* Showcases and demonstrators
\n* Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including issues in curation, migration, evolution, financing and cooperation
\n* Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure<\/p>\n
Design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, e.g.
\n* Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing
\n* Persistent identifiers
\n* Access, including Single Sign On Authentication and Authorisation
\n* Search, including Federated Content Search
\n* Web applications, web services, workflows and use of the infrastructure
\n* Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services<\/p>\n
CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination, e.g.
\n* User assistance (helpdesks, user manuals, FAQs)
\n* CLARIN portals and outreach to users
\n* Videos, screen casts, recorded lectures
\n* Researcher training activities
\n* Knowledge infrastructure centres<\/p>\n
CLARIN in relation with other infrastructures and projects, e.g.
\n* Relations with other SSH research infrastructures such as DARIAH, CESSDA, etc.
\n* Relations with meta-infrastructure projects such as EUDAT and RDA
\n* Relations with national and regional initiatives<\/p>\n
THEMATIC SESSION: Multilingual Processing for Humanities and Social Sciences
\nThe Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) have formulated research questions pertaining to different languages. However, the number of research tasks in H&SS in which Language Technology has been applied to cross-language barriers and analyse the same phenomena on material expressed in different languages is relatively small. The situation is better in the case genuine linguistic research, but in multilingual research applications in H&SS are mostly based on a kind of \u2018bag of words\u2019 model, and very rarely utilise more advanced multilingual Language Technology methods.<\/p>\n
The general aim of this thematic session is to present examples of multilingual approaches in H&SS research related to CLARIN, and to discuss infrastructural solutions to the problem of multilingual interoperability of the Language Technology that are necessary for more advanced research in H&SS. We expect to organise presentations and discussions during the session on the following aspects:<\/p>\n
1. Examples of applications of Language Technology to multilingual processing for the needs of research in H&SS.
\n2. Research tasks and ongoing projects in H&SS on the basis of multilingual material and application of Language Technology.
\n3. Interoperability of language resources and tools for the needs of multilingual applications in H&SS: models for linking, standards and formats, mapping and linking algorithms, complex processing methods, architectures and platforms.<\/p>\n
We invite submissions describing CLARIN related work addressing these aspects. Submissions (for oral presentations, posters, or demos) intended for the thematic session should be marked as such, and will be evaluated with respect to their appropriateness for the theme, in addition to the general acceptance criteria listed below.<\/p>\n
PROGRAM
\nThe scientific program both of the general sessions and the thematic session will include oral presentations, posters, and demos. There is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered.<\/p>\n
SUBMISSIONS
\nSubmission of proposals for oral presentations, poster presentations and\/or demos must be extended abstracts (length: up to four A4 pages including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template provided on the website.
\nIt is not required that the authors are or have been directly involved in national or international CLARIN projects, but their work must be clearly related to the CLARIN activities, resources, tools or services.<\/p>\n
Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system (link) and will be reviewed by the program committee.<\/p>\n
All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of both individual criteria and global criteria.<\/p>\n
The latter include thematic, linguistic and geographical spread. Individual acceptance criteria are the following:
\n* Appropriateness: the contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure (e.g. use CLARIN, contribute to the CLARIN design, construction, operation, exploitation, etc.). In addition, submissions to the thematic session will be selected on the basis of their appropriateness to the theme.
\n* Soundness and correctness: the content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated.
\n* Meaningful comparison: the abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences.
\n* Substance: concrete work and experiences will be preferred over ideas and plans.
\n* Impact: contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society at large will be preferred over papers with lower impact.
\n* Clarity: the extended abstract must be informative, clear and understandable for the CLARIN audience.
\n* Timeliness and novelty: the work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event.<\/p>\n
PROCEEDINGS
\nIf the submission is accepted, it will be published (possibly in revised form) in the conference Book of Abstracts. After the conference, the author(s) will be invited to submit a full paper (max. 12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be digitally published in a conference proceedings volume at Link\u00f6ping University Electronic Press within about 6 months after the conference.<\/p>\n
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
\nThe program committee for the conference consists of the following members:
\n* Jan Theo Bakker, Dutch Language Union, The Netherlands\/Flanders
\n* Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
\n* Ant\u00f3nio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
\n* Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
\n* Toma\u017e Erjavec, Jo\u017eef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
\n* Eva Haji\u010dov\u00e1, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
\n* Erhard Hinrichs, University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany
\n* Krister Lind\u00e9n, University of Helsinki, Finland
\n* Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
\n* Monica Monachini, Institute for Computational Linguistics \u00abA. Zampolli\u00bb, Italy
\n* Karlheinz M\u00f6rth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
\n* Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
\n* Maciej Piasecki, Wroc\u0142aw University of Science and Technology, Poland (chair)
\n* Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece
\n* Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
\n* Inguna Skadi\u0146a, University of Latvia, Latvia
\n* Jurgita Vai\u010denonien\u0117, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
\n* Tam\u00e1s V\u00e1radi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
\n* Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia
\n* Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n
LINKS CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the 6th CLARIN Annual Conference and invites submission of papers. LOCATION The 6th CLARIN Annual Conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary. IMPORTANT DATES * 1st February, 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First call published and submission system…<\/span><\/p>\n
\n* CLARIN ERIC website: http:\/\/www.clarin.eu<\/a>
\n* CLARIN Annual Conference 2017 website: https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/event\/2017\/clarin-annual-conference-2017-budapest-hungary<\/a>
\n* EasyChair submission: (to be open soon)
\n* Proceedings of previous CLARIN conferences
\n* CLARIN 2014: http:\/\/www.ep.liu.se\/ecp\/contents.asp?issue=116<\/a>
\n* CLARIN 2015: (http:\/\/www.ep.liu.se\/ecp\/contents.asp?issue=123<\/a>)
\n* CLARIN 2016: (forthcoming at http:\/\/www.ep.liu.se\/ecp\/index.en.asp<\/a>)
\n* For general information on the conference: events@clarin.eu<\/a>
\n* For information on the call for papers and program: clarin-pl@pwr.edu.pl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"