Events

We are happy to announce that version 5.0 of the ParlaMint corpora has been released, which is available for download in three variants: Multilingual comparable corpora of parliamentary debates ParlaMint 5.0, with linguistic annotations and machine translated to English. The corpora are also integrated into the CLARIN.SI noSketch Engine concordancer.

As opposed to the previous version, version 5.0 adds information on the automatically computed CAP (Comparative Agendas Project) topic of each speech and sentence-level sentiment for all corpora, as well as correcting some errors in individual corpora.

We cordially invite you to participate in the international symposium SyntaxFest 2025, which will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from August 26 to 29, 2025. The event will host five conferences in the field of empirical syntax and natural language processing (IWPT, UDW, TLT, DepLing, QUASY) and two workshops of the European COST network UniDive.

Early bird registration is open until July 15.

We have launched a new webpage highlighting current research activities related to large language models (LLMs) in Slovenia, created in the context of our membership in the CLARIN ERIC LLMs4SSH Knowledge Centre.

The site brings together essential information on key projects focusing on LLMs in Slovenia, existing benchmarks for LLMs in Slovenian, benchmarks and datasets for LLM evaluation in South Slavic and other languages provided by the CLASSLA K-Centre, and the openly-available large language models and other language technologies for Slovenian.

We are pleased to announce that the CLARIN.SI repository has been recertified with CoreTrustSeal certificate, which confirms its trustworthiness as a data repository and its compliance with international standards for research data management.

Further information can be found in the certification document.

Over the past week or so, there have been intermittent issues with access to CLARIN.SI. The problems are caused by several large AI companies aggressively harvesting all content under the www.clarin.si domain, while ignoring our robots.txt directives that explicitly prohibit such activities. This harvesting includes our services (e.g., the concordancers), which require some time to process each request. As these requests are sent repeatedly, several times per second, the infrastructure becomes overloaded and unresponsive, much like during a typical DDoS attack.

We are actively blocking the offending IP addresses, but new ones keep appearing. We are implementing various measures to address the situation, but unfortunately, it may take some time to fully resolve. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding!

CLARIN.SI Team

CLASSLA-Express Workshops are Back!

We are excited to announce the next iteration of the CLASSLA-Express workshops. This year, the workshops will take place in Austria, Croatia and Slovenia. We will continue to explore corpus-linguistic research using CLASSLA-web corpora for South Slavic languages and CLARIN.SI resources, while also testing how large language models (LLMs) perform linguistic tasks.

For more information, please visit the CLASSLA-Express website or read the full announcement below.

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We are pleased to announce the new CLARIN K-Centre for Large Language Models in SS&H, in which CLARIN.SI is also a participating institution. The newly established K-Centre provides expertise on various applications of LLMs in processing language data, as well as on their expansion and adaptation to the needs of researchers in the social sciences and humanities and their tasks.

We are pleased to announce that the 15th European Summer School on Digital Humanities, “Culture & Technology“ (ESU-2025), will take place from July 21 to August 2, 2025, in Besançon, France. The event is organized by Université Marie et Louis Pasteur.

For more information, please visit the website.

The call for applications opens on March 24, 2025.

As 2024 comes to a close, CLARIN.SI team is pleased to share a brief 1-minute video summarizing how the CLARIN.SI website, repository, and concordancers were used this year. For the first time, we have been able to collect detailed usage data for our concordancers, thanks to a new tool that we developed for this purpose.

The video is available here.

Thank you for being a part of the CLARIN.SI community and contributing to its growth.
We look forward to many more successful collaborations and shared achievements in the coming year!

The CLARIN.SI Team

The Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages CLASSLA has released a brief summary of the main activities and progress made during 2024, which include the launch of a crawling infrastructure for the (bi)annual collection of web corpora for South Slavic languages (CLASSLA-web corpora), a very successful CLASSLA-Express workshop series, benchmarking large language models on South Slavic languages and dialects, and development of speech technologies.

We invite you to read their full overview and discover more about these accomplishments, available here.