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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:24.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:22.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>CLARIN newsflash May 2015</span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Knowledge Centres in CLARIN</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The CLARIN Infrastructure is not only about technology and language resources, it is also about knowledge. Many centres inside and also outside CLARIN have not only technical expertise, but are also able to provide knowledge on other topics relevant in the context of languages and language technology.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>As we have announced last month, we have now our first </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/content/knowledge-centres"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Knowledge Centre</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>, the </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/news/congratulations-our-first-clarin-knowledge-centre"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Spanish K-Centre</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>. Two other centres have already applied and are in the pipeline to be approved shortly.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>We herewith encourage centres in and outside CLARIN member countries to apply for being recognized as a K-Centre (or, if the scope is limited to a certain region or country, L-Centre). This is possible independently of whether the centre is already a CLARIN A, B, C, or T Centre.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/CE-2015-0504-Knowledge-Centres-Appl-Instr.pdf"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The application procedure</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> is simple and does not require much; usually two or three A4-pages answering the criteria points are sufficient. For details, please see the page on </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/node/4061"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Knowledge Centres</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>CLARIN Mobility Scheme<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>Applications are invited for researchers and developers for funding for short visits (usually one week long) between centres to collaborate on building and using the CLARIN infrastructure. The mobility grants aim to foster:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB 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-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>sharing of expertise between CLARIN centres and countries;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB 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-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>integration of resources, tools, services and centres in European countries not currently in the CLARIN ERIC;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB 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-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>collaboration between CLARIN developers and researchers in the humanities and social sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-mobility-scheme"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>A Bazaar at the CLARIN Conference 2015<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;color:windowtext'>Do you have a cool new CLARIN webapp or software application that you want to demonstrate? Are you looking for collaborators for a new research project? Have you had a good idea for user engagement? Have you been experimenting with a new approach? Then sign up for the CLARIN bazaar!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt;color:windowtext'>The CLARIN bazaar will be an informal space at the next <a href="http://clarin.eu/event/2015/clarin-annual-conference-2015-wroclaw-poland">CLARIN conference</a> where you can meet people from other centres and countries, find out about their work in progress, exchange ideas, and talk to people about future collaborations. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:windowtext'><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/node/4113"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='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;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>CLARIN ERIC signs The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>CLARIN ERIC </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://thehaguedeclaration.com/the-hague-declaration-on-knowledge-discovery-in-the-digital-age/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>has signed the declaration</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> because it very much reflects our main considerations when we </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/news/clarin-withdraws-licences-europe-dialogue"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>decided to pull out</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> of the Licenses for Europe dialogue about Text and Data Mining.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>We would recommend that you have a look at the declaration and then decide for yourself or for your organization whether or not you </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://thehaguedeclaration.com/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>want to sign it</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>. We feel that it is important that many people sign, in order to show to the EC that this call for a revision of existing legislative frameworks is broadly supported.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>CLARIN services available to Swedish and Austrian users </span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>Since last week, all<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.clarin.eu/content/easy-access-protected-resources"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>CLARIN services with federated login</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>are also available to the Austrian and Swedish academic community.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>CLARIN lectures and workshops for humanists and sociologists in Poland</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>It is a busy spring for CLARIN in Poland! CLARIN-PL has launched a series of intensive workshops, tailored to the needs of researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and of translators. The workshops will teach the practical use of digital tools for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of texts in natural languages.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The first series of lectures and workshops “CLARIN-PL in research practice: digital language analysis tools for the humanities and translation” took place in April 2015 at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Three days of sessions saw over 40 participants, scientists and students, from such areas as history, sociology, psychology, lexicography, and literary theory. </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://clarin.eu/blog/clarin-pl-workshops"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>New service: OAI validator </span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>Thanks to the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.clarin-pl.eu/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>CLARIN-PL</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>colleagues, there is now a<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://oai.clarin-pl.eu/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>mirror available of the OAI repository explorer</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>. As<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://re.cs.uct.ac.za/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>the original</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt;background:white'>is often unavailable or slow, we hope this can be useful for centres preparing the centre assessment and the assessment committee.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Beyond the Digital Humanities</span></span></b><span lang=EN-US style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The NeDiMAH Conference ‘</span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://nedimah.eu/events/beyond-digital-humanities-final-network-event"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Beyond the Digital Humanities</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>’ was held at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, on Tuesday 5th May 2015. NeDiMAH is the final project of the European Science Foundation, backed by research funders in a large number of European countries. This four-year long project has explored the digital methods of practitioners in the arts and humanities, and the outputs of the project include the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO), to be sustained by DARIAH, and the Methodology Map of DH in Europe.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The day's proceedings raised a number of interesting issues relating to possible tensions between the constantly creative, innovative and changing nature of digital methods, and the ambition to create large-scale infrastructures to support them. If the methods are constantly subject to critique, modification and change, then is it possible to provide stable tools and datasets which are adequate for digital scholarship? </span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><a href="http://clarin.eu/blog/beyond-digital-humanities"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Read more</span></span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><br></span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities Report launch in Brussels</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Going Digital: Creating Change in the Humanities was launched 7th May 2015 in Brussels by DRI's Dr. Sandra Collins and Dr. Natalie Harrower, to representatives of the EC and stakeholders of the European scientific community, at a roundtable event organised by Professor Günter Stock, President of ALLEA. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The report is the output of the ALLEA Working Group on E-Humanities, chaired by Dr Sandra Collins, Director of the Digital Repository of Ireland at the Royal Irish Academy. Edited by Dr. Natalie Harrower, the report was co-written by experts in the Digital Humanities from six Academies across Europe. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The report discusses the state of the art of Digital Humanities research and support structures in Europe, and makes key recommendations for the innovations required to foster the continued growth and excellence of the digital humanities in Europe, focusing on digital archiving, long-term preservation, digital research tools, sustained e-infrastructures and research networks. Structured around the data life-cycle, the report is aimed at a range of stakeholders, from humanities researchers to those working with data, and from university administrators to HSS and ICT funding bodies. </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://dri.ie/going-digital-creating-change-humanities-report-launch-brussels"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'><br></span><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Events</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>LaTeCH workshop </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The 9th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities will be held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015 which will take place in Beijing, China, July 26 – 31.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The LaTeCH workshop series aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on developing novel information technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage. </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-2015/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>RDA Sixth Plenary Meeting </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>The 6th RDA Plenary will be hosted in the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (Cnam), Paris from 23-25 September 2015. </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.5pt'>The theme of the Meeting will be Enterprise Engagement with a focus on Research Data for Climate Change. As a part of this focus Cap Digital & RDA have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related Data Sets with startups, SMEs and larger organizations with practical application for these data. </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/rda-sixth-plenary-meeting.html"><span style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:18.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Vacancies</span></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Position in Computational Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany </span></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:13.0pt;color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2F5597;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>The Division of Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, Germany is involved in the construction of research infrastructures for language resources and technology at the local, national, and European levels. See </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/projects.html"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en/ascl/projects.html</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> for more information.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>For the CLARIN and CLARIN-D projects, The University of Tübingen is searching for a computer scientist or computational linguist with expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas: </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='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'>(scalable) web services, web applications, linked data, user interface design and implementation, including usability and user experience.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='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'>Programming experience in Java (or another object-oriented language) are required. Good command of German and good communication skills in English are expected.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-GB style='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'>An M.Sc. in Computer Science or a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, or related field is required.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news/job-advertisements/newsfullview-job-advertisements/article/computer-scientist-or-computational-linguist.html"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.5pt'>Read more</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>CLARIN ERIC </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>| <b> </b></span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.clarin.eu/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:NL'>www.clarin.eu</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> | Follow us on: </span><span lang=EN-GB><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/clarin-eric?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1429785421720%2Ctas%3Aclarin+eric"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=16 height=16 id="Afbeelding_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D09896.A01918A0" alt="De
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