CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 and
calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European
research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available
to scholars, researchers, students and citizen scientists from a wide
range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources
and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate,
analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location.
New in this year's call is the topic of Education and Training with
CLARIN tools.
Submission deadline: 12 April 2024
LOCATION
After the successful hybrid editions of 2022 and 2023, we plan to repeat
the same format in 2024. The CLARIN Conference 2024 will be a
face-to-face event that will be fully accessible virtually. The
conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be hosted
and organised by CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES and the
Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ).
IMPORTANT DATES
* 24 January 2024: First call published on CLARIN website,
disseminated, and submission system open
* 12 February 2024: Second call for abstracts disseminated
* 29 March 2024: Third call for abstracts disseminated
* 12 April 2024: Submission deadline
* 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance
* 2 September 2024: Camera-ready version deadline (that will be
extended)
* 15-17 October 2024: CLARIN Annual Conference
CONFERENCE AIMS
The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and
Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and
best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share
plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of
topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN
infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should
contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties,
its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN
Knowledge Infrastructure.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
To be confirmed.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the
following aspects:
Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure:
* Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond
* Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services
* Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use
cases
* Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer
communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science,
information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI
* Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to
CLARIN
Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure:
* Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure
* Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing
* Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms
* Access, including single sign-on authentication and authorisation
* Search functions, including Federated Content Search
* Web applications, web services and workflows
* Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources,
tools and services
* Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including
curation, migration financing and cooperation
* Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure.
CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination;
* User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs)
* CLARIN portals and outreach to users
* Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures
* Knowledge centres.
CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives:
* SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH [1] and CESSDA [2] and
the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster [3], etc.
* Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as [4]EOSC [5], Europeana
[6], Language Data Space [7], etc.
* Projects such as ATRIUM [8], EOSC Focus [9], ERIC Forum [10], EOSC
Future [11], FAIRCORE4EOSC [12], OSCARS [13], OSTrails [14]
* National and regional initiatives.
Education and Training
* Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and
training activities targeting audiences from different sectors
(academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt
* The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH
curricula, student exchange programmes)
* Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university
curricula
* Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN
Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS)
FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS
The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and
posters, and may also include demos. Due to limits in the time schedule,
the number of oral presentations is limited. Authors can select if they
prefer a poster presentation. If not, papers are allocated a
presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for a session
as decided by the programme committee. Authors of accepted submissions
will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their
presentation.
SUBMISSIONS
The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made
in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be
submitted as _extended abstracts_ (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including
references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive
[15], Overleaf [16] template). Authors can choose whether to submit on
an anonymous or non-anonymous basis.
Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant
to CLARIN's activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance
should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the
presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for
the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also
eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved
in national or cross-national CLARIN projects.
Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission
system [17] and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All
proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:
* Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN
infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design,
construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible
applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated
in the submission.
* Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and
factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to
best practice, and preferably evaluated.
* Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is
aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant
differences.
* Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference
over ideas and plans.
* Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community
and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower
impact.
* Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured.
* Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge
to the audience at this event.
ATTENDANCE
For each accepted abstract, CLARIN ERIC offers one author free access,
free accommodation and meals . Travelling costs are not covered by
CLARIN ERIC. Authors are encouraged to reach out to their national
consortium, to their home institution or to third party funds to cover
travel costs.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of
Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s)
of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12
pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts.
Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference
proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference
Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx [18]
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following
members:
* Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch
Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium -- chair
* Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies,
Iceland
* Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
* António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
* Cristina Grisot, University of Zurich and at the Swiss National
Center for Data & Services for the Humanities DaSCH
* Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
* Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland
* Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics 'A.
Zampolli', Italy
* Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
* Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands
* Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology,
Poland
* Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece
* German Rigau, HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology, Spain
* Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia, Latvia
* National Coordinator Norway
* Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
* Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
* Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Hungary
* Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia
* Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany
* Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources,
North-West University, South Africa
* Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Links:
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[1] https://www.dariah.eu/
[2] https://www.cessda.eu/
[3] https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster
[4] https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT
[5] https://eosc.eu/about-eosc
[6] https://www.europeana.eu
[7] https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/
[8] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-atrium
[9] https://www.clarin.eu/content/factsheet-clarin-eosc-focus
[10] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-eric-forum-2
[11] https://eoscfuture.eu/
[12] https://faircore4eosc.eu/
[13] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-oscars
[14] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-ostrails
[15]
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/biicfb3pulc4xtgcvm34j/CLARIN2024_Templates.zip?rlkey=g8piimnzfqgb2s3qjz30so17c&dl=0
[16] https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f
[17] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2024
[18] https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx
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