Katja Meden

We are pleased to welcome a new member to the CLARIN.SI consortium – the National and University Library of Slovenia.

The National and University Library (NUK) is the Slovenian national library, the central state library and the university library of the University of Ljubljana, the national aggregator of e-content for Europeana, and the home of the Digital Library of Slovenia.

More information about the new member (as well as the other 12 consortium partners) can be found here.

The Institute of Contemporary History (INZ) in Ljubljana is accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship program. Visits are to take place between October 1, 2023 and October 1, 2024.

The application deadline is July 1, 2023

More information about the program, eligibility requirements, and range of topics is available here.

The Call for Extended Abstracts for the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 is now available at this link,

The deadline for abstract submission of abstracts is 14 April 2023.

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.