[Clarin-Be] key achievements for period October 2024 - September 2025

[Vincent Vandeghinste]

DEAR CLARIN-BE MEMBERS,

For the CLARIN annual report we need to collect information from the 
consortium members on their key achievements.

Would it be possible for you  to provide me with the information of your 
group for the rubriques you find below. I've added the information I was 
already aware of.

Please do this before end of August 2025.

Thank you,

kind regards and enjoy the summer,

v.

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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

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EVENTS

  	* CLIN 35 organised by KU Leuven

  	*

RESOURCES (DATASETS, TOOLS, SERVICES)

  	* March: The Spoken Corpus of the Southern Dutch Dialects is released 
for online search with blacklab and gretel 
https://portal.clarin.ivdnt.org/gcnd-gretel [1]
  	* June: Launch of TextLens [2], multilingual tagger
  	* July: Update of the Text2Picto engine at https://picto.ivdnt.org [3]

  	* Collaborations (with other national consortia, K-centres, other RIs, 
industry/GLAM, or others)
  	*

PROJECTS

  	* February: New CLARIAH-VL+  project approved 
https://clariahvl.hypotheses.org/2582 [4]

  	* National B-centres
  	*

TRAINING MATERIALS

  	* Participation in online course for Humanities and Social Sciences 
professionals. AI to Understand and Connect People:  
https://www.vaia.be/nl/opleidingen/humanai [5]

  	* Publications

  	* Publications by members of the national consortia

  	* Pouya Mehralian, Hugo Van Hamme (2025). _Leveraging Geographic 
Metadata for Dialect-Aware Speech Recognition. _Interspeech
  	* Zhengjun Yue , Mara Barberis , Tanvina Patel , Judith Dineley , 
Willemijn Doedens , Lottie Stipdonk , YuanYuan Zhang , Elke de Witte , 
Erfan Loweimi , Hugo Van Hamme , Djaina Satoer , Marina Ruiter , 
Laureano Moro Velazquez , Nicholas Cummins, Odette Scharenborg (2025). 
_Challenges and practical guidelines for atypical speech data 
collection, annotation, usage and sharing: A multi-project perspective. 
_Interspeech
  	* Katrien Beuls, Paul Van Eecke (2025). Humans Learn Language from 
Situated Communicative Interactions. What about Machines? Computational 
Linguistics (2024) 50 (4): 1277-1311.
  	* Natalia Evgrafova, Loic De Langhe, Els Lefever, Veronique Hoste 
(2025). _Stance-aware Definition Generation for Argumentative Texts.  
_ARGMining (co-located with AC)
  	* Pranaydeep Singh, Eneko Agirre, Gorka Azkune, Orphee De Clercq, Els 
Lefever (2025). _EnerGIZAr: Leveraging GIZA++ for Effective Tokenizer 
Initialization. _ACL.
  	* Colin Swaelens, Ilse De Vos, Els Lefever (2025). _Lemmatisation & 
Morphological Analysis of Unedited Greek: Do Simple Tasks Need Complex 
Solutions? _ACL.

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PUBLICATIONS BY USERS OF YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE

  	*

RI FUNDING AND EVALUATION (PLUS WORK PLAN, IF AVAILABLE: UPLOAD HERE [6] 
(IN ENGLISH, MACHINE TRANSLATED IF NEEDED)).

  	*

OTHER

  	* Newly joined the consortium:

  	* Department of Linguistics at UGent [7]. Prof. Dr. Anne Breitbarth
  	* KU Leuven Libraries [8]
  	* Leuven Interdisciplinary Linguistics Institute [9]



Links:
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[1] https://portal.clarin.ivdnt.org/gcnd-gretel
[2] https://portal.clarin.ivdnt.org/textlens/
[3] https://picto.ivdnt.org
[4] https://clariahvl.hypotheses.org/2582
[5] https://www.vaia.be/nl/opleidingen/humanai
[6] https://www.dropbox.com/request/miF1clYkEcd2RKGfdUnD
[7] https://www.ugent.be/lw/taalkunde/en
[8] https://bib.kuleuven.be/english
[9] https://www.kuleuven.be/lili
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