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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:24.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>CLARIN newsflash April 2015</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>New CLARIN members<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Recently, both <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/news/portugal-joined-clarin-eric">Portugal</a> and <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/news/greece-joined-clarin-eric">Greece</a> have joined CLARIN. A warm welcome to our new consortia and centres!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>New B centres<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Huygens ING and Talkbank have been awarded the <a href="http://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-two-brand-new-b-centres">B-centre status</a>. Congratulations!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>B-centres have successfully passed the CLARIN <a href="https://www.clarin.eu/node/3767">centre assessment procedure</a> and can officially carry the CLARIN B centre label.</span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Congratulations to our first CLARIN Knowledge Centre!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>We are happy to announce that the Spanish CLARIN K Centre is the first to be officially recognized as a Knowledge Centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Together three institutions cover much of the possible competence on text and language processing technology competence on the major Spanish languages: Spanish (Castellano), Catalan and Basque.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-our-first-clarin-knowledge-centre">Read more</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Call for Papers: CLARIN Annual Conference 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the 4th CLARIN Annual Conference (<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>October 15-17, Wroc³aw) </span></strong>and calls for the submission of papers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The CLARIN Annual Conference <strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>is</span></strong> organized for the Humanities and Social Sciences community in order to exchange ideas and experiences on the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes the infrastructure's design, construction and operation, the data and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The full Call for Papers, with instructions for submission, is available on the <a href="http://clarin.eu/news/call-papers-clarin-annual-conference-2015">CLARIN website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>General details about the CLARIN Annual Conference can be found on the <a href="http://clarin.eu/event/2015/clarin-annual-conference-2015-wroclaw-poland">CLARIN Conference website</a>. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>CLARIN is literally on the map of the European Research Infrastructures<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The map <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm?pg=mapri_european">shows the location</a> of the pan-European research infrastructures (RIs) that are listed in the ESFRI roadmap 2010, including those that are established as ERIC - European Research Infrastructure Consortium. The RIs are visualized through the city of their headquarters. In case of distributed infrastructure, the location of the partner facilities (e.g. CLARIN centres) is also displayed on the map. About four hundred facilities are part of these distributed pan-European research infrastructures that have been (or are being) set up with the support of the European Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>CLARIN featured in EUDAT news<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The CLARIN use case has been featured in a recent press release by the new EUDAT 2020 project.<br>See <a href="http://www.eudat.eu/news/research-data-made-simple">http://www.eudat.eu/news/research-data-made-simple</a> or this <a href="http://www.eudat.eu/system/files_force/EUDAT%20March%202015%20Press%20Release_9%20March%202015.pdf">PDF for distribution</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Workshop on Speech and Audio Technologies for the Digital Humanities (SAT4DH)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The field of Digital Humanities (DH) combines methodologies from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music, and cultural studies) and social sciences with tools provided by digital publishing and computing (such as data visualization, audio-visual indexing, information retrieval, data mining, statistics, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>It is of increasing interest for the speech technology community: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Firstly, this domain has a high demand for speech technology and applications. There are several areas in the Digital Humanities that involve huge amounts of audio-visual data sources (e.g. oral history, archives of special historical fields, endangered languages, etc.). Speech technology can help to provide better access to these data and to extract relevant information. This should allow scientists in the Digital Humanities to generate and answer new research questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Secondly, audio-visual data sets pose new research challenges for speech and audio researchers: Often the recordings of Digital Humanities scenarios are small, fragmented and of limited quality. Little established linguistic knowledge is usually available. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:35.7pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-17.85pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Further, the speech is often natural and spontaneous. Therefore, new and better speech processing techniques are required. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>This workshop is designed to draw the attention of the speech technology community to the field of Digital Humanities and to connect researchers within and (in the past) tangential to this domain. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>It will be held on <b>September 11, 2015</b> in <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/location-1">Leipzig</a>, as a Satellite Workshop to <a href="http://interspeech2015.org">INTERSPEECH 2015</a>. Read on about the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/location">format</a> of the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Click <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/is.cs.cmu.edu/sat4dh/home">here</a> for more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Multilingual Digital Single Market Open Letter<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Exceptionally we would like to forward this important request to support an open letter to the European Commission. Please have a look, and if you agree, sign it! This certainly seems to be in the best interest of CLARIN and similar initiatives.<br>This is the website: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'><a href="http://www.multilingualeurope.eu"><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.multilingualeurope.eu</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Support for LinguistList FundDrive<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>We also would like to approach you exceptionally in behalf of our colleagues from the LINGUIST List. They have asked us to support and divulgate their yearly fund drive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The services of LINGUIST List are certainly of core relevance for many members of the CLARIN community, and indeed also for the CLARIN infrastructure itself: for instance, we refer to LLmap and to the language pages of LINGUIST List so that we do not have to create these valuable resources of our own.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>LINGUIST List’s business model depends to a large extent on donations in order to pay for the student assistants and developers that do most of the editorial and daily work. This year, the fund drive is not going as well as in the previous years and as is needed in order to keep LINGUIST List afloat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>So please, if you have not already done, consider donating to LINGUIST List (and if you have already, consider donating again). More importantly, speak with others and promote this campaign, and consider even if you could suggest that your institution or associations that you are a member of also contribute.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Here are the relevant links:<br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1264.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/26/26-1264.html</a> (announcement)<br><a href="http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/">http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/</a> (fund drive pages)<br>Thank you for your consideration!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#376092'>Vacancy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>The <a href="http://www.labex-efl.org/">Labex EFL</a> (Empirical Foundations of Linguistics) recruits a postdoctoral researcher, Empirical syntax or semantics: quantitative and experimental approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>It is a full time position for 12 months. Depending on the results, the position may be renewed for another 12 months. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Job location : Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Paris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>Application deadline : May, 1st 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%'>More details about the vacancy and how to apply can be found on the <a href="http://www.labex-efl.org/?q=en/node/285">EFL website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>