Events

In November, RDA Node Slovenia and its partners organised a conference on Open Research Data in Slovenia. A short report on the conclusions of the conference is available here.

Our Bulgarian colleagues, Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov, have prepared FAQ on the Bulgarian language resources and technologies as part of the CLASSLA knowledge centre for South Slavic languages. This is the first joint activity of CLARIN.SI and CLADA-BG inside CLASSLA, with the next one being the addition of Bulgarian to the CLASSLA ReLDIanno text annotation services.

In November, RDA Node Slovenia and its partners organised a conference on Open Research Data in Slovenia. The aim of the conference was to enable exchange of experience and to encourage discussion regarding open research data. In the section dedicated to services provided by field-specific data infrastructures, Tomaž Erjavec presented CLARIN.SI and the FAIR principles for data publication.

In October, Tomaž Erjavec held a lecture entitled Language resources, open science and the future of Slovene language in digital society which was part of the Wednesday colloquia at the Jožef Stefan Institute. Historical overview of the creation of Slovene language resources was followed by an insightful presentation of the CLARIN.SI infrastructure and its efforts to ensure free and open access to Slovene language resources.

The lecture and presentation slides (both in Slovene) are available here.

In the summer, Tour de Clarin – an initiative that aims to highlight the work of national CLARIN centers – stopped in Slovenia. Tour de Clarin blogs bring inspiring presentations of a popular language tool and resource from the CLARIN.SI repository: CSMTiser and Emoji Sentiment Ranking 1.0, and of a highly successful seminar series Janes Express. In the last blog, you can find an interview with Kaja Dobrovoljc, a researcher that closely cooperates with CLARIN.SI, and read about her work.

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We are happy to announce that Darja Fišer (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute) has been appointed as CLARIN ERIC Vice Director at the Clarin Annual Conference 2019. In addition, 2019 Steven Krauwer Young Scientist Award was awarded to our colleague Jakob Lenardič  (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) for his important contribution to CLARIN outreach activities: https://www.clarin.eu/content/jakob-lenardič-awarded-2019-steven-krauwer-young-scientist-award.

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Tour de CLARIN is a CLARIN ERIC initiative that regularly highlights prominent user involvement activities of a CLARIN national consortium. In June & July 2019 this is Slovenia with CLARIN.SI.  So far, two blog post have been published: an Introduction to CLARIN.SI and a prominent resource in its repository, the Emoji Sentiment Ranking lexicon.

We are happy to announce that a special issue of the journal »Contributions to Contemporary History« has been published. It contains an editorial, a report and the 10 best-evaluated articles from the conference Language technologies & digital humanities which has been organised in September 2018 in Ljubljana by the Slovenian Language Technologies Society (SDJT), the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering  of the University of Ljubljana and the research infrastructures CLARIN.SI and DARIAH-SI. The 10 articles written by 23 authors from 5 countries have been expanded and adapted for an international audience.

The issue is freely available at http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/issue/view/18.

On 13th June 2019, the Centre for language resources and technologies, University of Ljubljana, presented Gigafida 2.0 – a new version of the Gigafida corpus. The updated corpus is a reference corpus of written standard Slovene with 1.2 billion words from daily newspapers, magazines, selected web pages and books. The corpus can be accessed through the CJVT Resources portal, a dedicated web page or the CLARIN.SI concordancers.

Tanja Wissik (Centre of Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) received a CLARIN Mobility Grant to visit the Jožef Stefan Institute in April 2019. Tanja has initiated the corpus project ParlAT, a corpus of Austrian parliamentary records but wanted to convert ParlAT into a standard format, such as TEI, to allow interoperability with other data sets and, in doing so, enable efficient research across different parliamentary data and other corpora. During her research visit April 14 – 19, 2019 in Ljubljana, Tomaž Erjavec and Andrej Pančur helped Tanja analyse the corpus and proposed ways in which to convert it to TEI. You can read more about the visit in her CLARIN blog.