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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Just wanted to keep you posted about some things happening on the CLARIN front. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kind regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vincent Vandeghinste</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">National Coordinator CLARIN-BE</span></p>
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<p><strong>1. Vacancy Communication/Dissemination WP leader.</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the newly approved project ELEXAI (European Lexicographic Infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence), CLARIN-ERIC is recruiting for a Communication/Dissemination WP leader. For more info you can contact me.</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project duration: 3 years (1 May 2026 - April 2029)</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Capacity: </span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CLARIN person months: 11 pms in WP9 and 11 pms in WP10 = 22 pms, </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><span style="font-weight: 400;">approximately 0,6 FTE for 36 months</span></li>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preferred start: May/June 2026</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kick-off 3-5 June 2026 Ljubljana, Slovenia</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>2. Call for Extended Abstracts for the CLARIN conference </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">at <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-conference-2026">https://www.clarin.eu/content/call-extended-abstracts-clarin-annual-conference-2026</a> (Deadline 6 April). Upcoming conferences, workshops and other events related to CLARIN. <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/events">https://www.clarin.eu/events</a>. <br /><br />Associated with the conference, if you have any PhD students that do anything with CLARIN, you can consider nominating them for the CLARIN conference phD session. CLARIN covers conference fee, hotel and catering, so only travel is on your account (Brighton, UK)</span></p>
<p><strong>3. TextLens tool for tagging-as-a-service is available</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/10032/tm-a3-c4">http://hdl.handle.net/10032/tm-a3-c4</a></p>
<p>Paper accepted for LREC describing the details: <strong>Cynthia Van Hee, Jonas Doumen, Vincent Prins, Pranaydeep Singh, Vincent Vandeghinste and Els Lefever </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">(accepted). TextLens & Lettuce: Automated Corpus Annotation and Multilingual Tagging as a Service. </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Proceedings of LREC 2026.</span></em></p>
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