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<font size="-1"><big><big>The first Swedish national SWE-CLARIN
workshop</big><br>
LT-based e-HSS in Sweden – taking stock and looking ahead</big><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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):<br>
<br>
- specific e-HSS projects<br>
- digitization efforts involving intangible cultural heritage<br>
- 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)<br>
- multilingual aspects of LT-based e-HSS<br>
- efforts to create workflows and effective user interfaces<br>
- research questions relevant to the LT-based e-HSS paradigm<br>
- how to reconcile large-scale quantitative and
"close-reading" qualitative research methods<br>
<br>
Important dates<br>
<br>
- First call for papers: 19th June 2014<br>
- Second call for papers/Submission opens: 4th August 2014<br>
- Deadline for submissions: 8th September 2014<br>
- Notification of acceptance: 6th October 2014<br>
- Workshop: 13th November 2014, 9–12am<br>
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Workshop organizers<br>
<br>
- Johanna Berg, Digisam<br>
- Lars Borin, Språkbanken, University of Gothenburg<br>
- Rickard Domeij, the Swedish Language Council<br>
- Marianne Gullberg, Lund University<br>
- David House, KTH<br>
- Hans Jørgen Marker, SND<br>
- Magnus Merkel, Linköping University<br>
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University<br>
- Mats Wirén, Stockholm University<br>
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More information will be available from<br>
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Institutionen för svenska språket
Göteborgs universitet
Box 200
SE-405 30 Göteborg
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