Katja Meden

Repository CLARIN.SI will not be open to new submissions on December 21-22 due to planned downtime for upgrades.

We are happy to announce a new addition to the CLARIN.SI family of concordancers:

CLARIN.SI Crystal noSketch Engine concordancer is an open-source version of the commercial Sketch Engine, developed by Lexical Computing, that now offers a new and improved user interface, Crystal.

We are pleased to announce that Jakob Lenardič is the recipient of the award for the best doctoral dissertation in humanities and social sciences at the Faculty of Arts, the University of Ljubljana in 2020/2021. He received the award for his work “Skladenjsko-pomenska razčlemba srednjiških zgradb v tvorbeno-pretvorbeni slovnici.”

Congratulations!

We are pleased to announce that Darja Fišer has been appointed Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC, starting the new position in January 2023. More on her work and vision for the CLARIN ERIC infrastructure is available here.

We are happy to announce that on 25th March 2022, young researcher Kaja Dobrovoljc will hold a presentation on Open language resources for smarter artificial intelligence at The ESFRI 20th Anniversary Conference: European Research Infrastructures at the Heart of Scientific Discoveries.

The agenda for the conference is available here.

We are pleased to announce that the paper on ParlaMint corpora of parliamentary proceedings, has been published in the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal as an Open Access paper. The CLARIN.SI team lead the compilation of the corpora, which are all encoded in a common and interoperable format, and contributed the Slovenian and Croatian corpora.

The full paper is available here.

In November, Tour de CLARIN presents the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for South Slavic Languages (CLASSLA), which offers support for automated processing of South Slavic languages, and is operated by the Slovene CLARIN.SI and the Bulgarian CLaDA-BG.

The full article is available at the following link.

We are pleased to announce that Tomaž Erjavec is the winner of this year’s Steven Krauwer Award for outstanding contributions to the goals of the CLARIN ERIC infrastructure. The award was presented at the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021. More information on the award, as well as an interview with its winner, can be found here.

CLARIN.SI in 2020 again launched a call for project proposals for the members of its consortium. The two successfully concluded projects (Tutorial on the siParl 2.0 corpus: Voices of the parliament – Corpus linguistics approach to parliamentary discourse and The compilation of the MEMIS epigraphic corpus of Medieval and Early Modern inscriptions in Slovenia) are described on the CLARIN.SI Projects page.

The ParlaMint project in which CLARIN.SI is one of the main partners, recently featured in the CLARIN Café, where the current results of the project were presented. A video of the talks is also available.