[All] CfP: The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN workshop

[Lars Borin]

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The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN workshop
LT-based e-HSS in Sweden – taking stock and looking ahead

CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) was 
established by the European Commission as an ERIC (European Research 
Infrastructure Consortium) in 2012. In 2013, Vetenskapsrådet (the 
Swedish Research Council) approved a proposal for Swedish membership in 
CLARIN, including a Swedish national CLARIN organization. The process of 
setting up SWE-CLARIN is ongoing, and it is likely that Sweden will be 
able to join the CLARIN ERIC during 2014.

CLARIN aims at making language-based material available as primary 
research data to the humanities and social sciences (HSS) research 
communities with the help of the sophisticated language and speech 
processing tools and language resources (LRs) that have been developed 
over many years through research in language technology (LT), and taking 
advantage of the fact that increasing amounts of text and speech 
material – including historical material – are available in digital 
form, thus allowing for the utilization of unprecedented volumes of text 
and speech data in HSS research. The expectation is that this LT-based 
e-HSS paradigm will lead to completely new kinds of research as well as 
to new ways of addressing old research questions.

This first national Swedish CLARIN workshop is organized in conjunction 
with SLTC 2014, the Fifth Swedish Language Technology Conference, in 
Uppsala on the morning of the 13th of November 2014. The purpose of the 
workshop is to take stock of ongoing activities falling within the remit 
of SWE-CLARIN, as well as to look ahead, by formulating needs to be 
filled and research avenues to be explored over the upcoming years.

We invite contributions for either 10-minute oral presentations or 
poster presentations. Posters will typically describe ongoing or 
completed work, while oral presentations will be expected to describe 
needed or planned work. Both kinds of submissions should be in the form 
of an extended abstract (3-5 pages in the COLING/NoDaLiDa format). 
Accepted abstracts will be published on the workshop website prior to 
the workshop.

In line with the exploratory nature of this first national SWE-CLARIN 
workshop, we welcome submissions describing completed, ongoing, and 
planned e-HSS work – crucially involving the use of LT and LRs – on (but 
not limited to):

- specific e-HSS projects
- digitization efforts involving intangible cultural heritage
- concrete efforts as well as general methodology development aiming at 
adaptation of LT and LRs to, e.g., historical or non-standard language 
varieties and genres (e.g., social media)
- multilingual aspects of LT-based e-HSS
- efforts to create workflows and effective user interfaces
- research questions relevant to the LT-based e-HSS paradigm
- how to reconcile large-scale quantitative and "close-reading" 
qualitative research methods

Important dates

- First call for papers: 19th June 2014
- Second call for papers/Submission opens: 4th August 2014
- Deadline for submissions: 8th September 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 6th October 2014
- Workshop: 13th November 2014, 9–12am

Workshop organizers

- Johanna Berg, Digisam
- Lars Borin, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg
- Rickard Domeij, the Swedish Language Council
- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
- David House, KTH
- Hans Jørgen Marker, SND
- Magnus Merkel, Linköping University
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University
- Mats Wirén, Stockholm University

More information will be available from
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws> 
<http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/Forskning/Infrastruktur/swe-clarin/first-swe-clarin-ws>

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Lars Borin
Språkbanken • Centre for Language Technology
Institutionen för svenska språket
Göteborgs universitet
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SE-405 30 Göteborg
Sweden

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