[All] Call for Participation: Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus

[CLARIN EU]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The Talk of Europe - Travelling CLARIN Campus project (www.talkofeurope.eu)
aims to instigate pan-European collaboration by organizing three
international creative camps in 2014 and 2015. The first camp will be held
6-10 October at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum,
the Netherlands.

The Talk of Europe (TOE) project is curating the proceedings of European
Parliament (EP) from 1996 onwards, available in 21 languages, and converting
these to RDF. Moreover, the data are enriched with biographical and
political information on the speakers. Since the data are available in
multilingual form, this dataset lends itself to be linked with resources in
other European countries, such as parliamentary records or news reports. The
RDF dataset and a SPARQL endpoint will be made available in September 2014. 

The creative camp intends to bring together developers and academic
researchers, with the goal of making inventive use of the EP dataset,
exploiting web and natural language processing techniques to add new
knowledge and functionality to the dataset. The goal is to develop
proof-of-concept tools that can be applied in scholarly research in the
political sciences and humanities.

The event will comprise five consecutive days, which will include 1)
presentations by humanities scholars and political scientists on how they
use political datasets, 2) presentations by computer scientists showing best
practices from other projects and 3) practical sessions for tool
development.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

In order to participate, the TOE organisers welcome proposals describing
ambitions for research tools and/or links with other datasets. Submissions
should describe the following:

- General description of idea (should not exceed 1000 words) including:
	- The research tool to be developed.
	- The datasets to be used.
	- The scholarly research problem or question to be addressed.
	- Contact info and a short description of research interests for all
participants who would like to attend.
- A work plan to indicate feasibility of proof-of-concept creation in 5
days.
- A description of how the tool will be made available after the creative
camp.

For inspiration, please see www.talkofeurope.eu/cfp/inspiration. To submit a
proposal, please send a docx or pdf file to kemman at eshcc.eur.nlbefore 20
June 2014. Accepted proposals will be made available on www.talkofeurope.eu.

CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE

- Participants must work in a European country. Proposals from developers
and academic researchers from one of the following CLARIN ERIC member or
observer countries are particularly welcome: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Dutch
Language Union.
	- Participants are not required to have already been involved with
CLARIN.
	- Master or PhD students, academics further in their career and
non-academic developers are welcome.
- Proposals that include international collaboration will be prioritized.
- Datasets to be linked with the EP data may be from any type or source.
Proposals with datasets available in http://catalog.clarin.eu/vlo/ are
particularly welcome.
- Proposals will be ranked to create a distribution of geography of
participants, language and type of tools

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: Friday 20 June
Acceptance notification: Friday 27 June
Creative camp: Monday 6 - Friday 10 October 2014 (5 days)

LOCATION

The first creative camp will be held at Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

BURSARIES

The TOE organisers will offer bursaries for all participants to cover all
expenses of travel to the venue and staying in the hotel in the period of
Sunday 5 until Saturday 11 October 2014.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Visit the website www.talkofeurope.eu. For further information and
questions, please contact Max Kemman (kemman at eshcc.eur.nl).