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<p>Dear CLARIN and CLARIAH colleagues,</p>
<p>see the below call - spread the word!</p>
<p>kind regards,</p>
<p>v.</p>
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<td>[NCF] Urgent Call for a Partner – CHIST-ERA 2025: “Science in Your Own Language”</td>
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<td>2025-03-07 09:20</td>
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<td>Darja Fišer via NCF <ncf@lists.clarin.eu></td>
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<td>NCF list <ncf@lists.clarin.eu></td>
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<td>"Lek, I. van der (Iulianna) via BoD" <bod@lists.clarin.eu></td>
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<td>Darja Fišer <Darja.Fiser@inz.si></td>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>please see the very interesting and relevant invitation to join a project proposal below. Feel free to forward the message within your communities and get in touch with the main proposer directly but pls add me to cc / inform me of any developments so that I can keep track of your expressions of interest and follow up as/if needed.</div>
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<div>Many thanks,</div>
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<div>Darja</div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:operas-sac-request@groups.openedition.org" rel="noreferrer">operas-sac-request@groups.openedition.org</a><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:operas-sac-request@groups.openedition.org" rel="noreferrer">operas-sac-request@groups.openedition.org</a>><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>On Behalf Of<span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>Mikołaj Leszczuk<br /><strong>Sent:</strong><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, March 6, 2025 8:37 PM<br /><strong>To:</strong><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:operas-sac@groups.openedition.org" rel="noreferrer">operas-sac@groups.openedition.org</a><br /><strong>Cc:</strong><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kamel Smaïli <<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:Kamel.Smaili@loria.fr" rel="noreferrer">Kamel.Smaili@loria.fr</a>><br /><strong>Subject:</strong><span class="v1Apple-converted-space"> </span>[operas-sac] Urgent Call for a Partner – CHIST-ERA 2025: "Science in Your Own Language"</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Members of the OPERAS Scientific Advisory Committee,<br /><br />We hope this message finds you well. We are reaching out on behalf of Pr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kamel Smaïli (LORIA, UL, CNRS, France) and Dr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mikołaj Leszczuk (AGH University of Krakow, Poland) to urgently request your support in identifying a third partner for our new project proposal under the CHIST-ERA Call 2025: "Science in Your Own Language" (SOL). We have a strong track record of collaboration in CHIST-ERA (notably the 2014 project Access Multilingual Information opinionS – AMIS), and now we aim to build on that experience with an ambitious, multidisciplinary consortium.<br /><br />Project Focus and Goals<br /><br />Our proposed project centers on developing AI-driven tools to tackle language and cultural barriers in scientific communication. Specifically, we plan to:<br /><br />1. Transform complex scientific content (including text, graphs, equations, tables, images, and video) into accessible multimedia formats that are adaptable to diverse linguistic and cultural contexts.<br /><br />2. Implement a real-time system for text translation, explanation, and summarization, allowing users to explore scientific output at various levels of complexity (from general public to expert audiences).<br /><br />3. Enhance scientific integrity by detecting cross-lingual fraud, plagiarism, and misinformation in research outputs across different languages and disciplines.<br /><br />4. Generate interactive audiovisual material (e.g., videos, animations) from textual content to make knowledge dissemination more engaging and user-friendly.<br /><br />These objectives are aligned with the CHIST-ERA 2025 SOL theme, emphasizing multilingual scientific communication and broadening access to research findings.<br /><br />Current Consortium<br /><br />• AGH University of Krakow (Poland): Expertise in multimedia processing, AI-driven document analysis, and knowledge adaptation.<br /><br />• LORIA, UL, CNRS (France): Expertise in machine translation, natural language processing, large language models, and domain-specific linguistic adaptation.<br /><br />The Missing Partner<br /><br />To meet the formal CHIST-ERA requirement of at least three partners from three different participating countries, we are actively seeking a third partner from among the other CHIST-ERA nations, such as Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, or the United Kingdom. Desired expertise includes one (or more) of the following areas:<br /><br />• Humanities, Linguistics, or Digital Humanities – adapting scientific writing style to varied cultural and linguistic contexts and understand sociolinguistic variations.<br /><br />• Scientific Publishing & Digital Repositories – structuring and enhancing accessibility of scientific outputs and adapting it to the skill of the user. For instance, providing simplified abstracts or summaries for non-experts, offering in-depth technical details for researchers and domain specialists and enabling multilingual access for broader audience reach.<br /><br />• AI-based Plagiarism & Fraud Detection – developing innovative methods for cross-lingual research integrity and verification and performing a subjective evaluation by experts.<br /><br />• Advanced Pattern Recognition in Scientific Documents – analyzing graphs, tables, formulas, or complex visual structures.<br /><br />We intend to submit our proposal by April 2025, hence the urgency in finalizing our consortium. The approximate project budget per partner is expected to range from €600,000 to €1</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">million (depending on each funding agency's regulations).<br /><br />Contact<br /><br />Please feel free to contact us directly at:<br /><br />• Pr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kamel Smaïli –</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[LORIA/UL/CNRS, France]<br /><br /><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:Kamel.Smaili@loria.fr" rel="noreferrer">Kamel.Smaili@loria.fr</a><br /><br />• Dr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mikołaj Leszczuk –</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[AGH University of Krakow, Poland]<br /><br /><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:mikolaj.leszczuk@agh.edu.pl" rel="noreferrer">mikolaj.leszczuk@agh.edu.pl</a><br /><br />If you are not interested, we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your time in reading this message.<br /><br />We look forward to the possibility of collaborating and would be grateful if you could share this call with other researchers or organizations that might be interested.<br /><br />With kind regards,<br /><br />Dr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kamel Smaïli (LORIA, UL, CNRS, France)<br /><br />Dr.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mikołaj Igor Leszczuk (AGH University of Krakow, Poland)</span></div>
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