Kristina Pahor de Maiti

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.