{"id":7157,"date":"2024-03-07T09:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T09:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/?page_id=7157"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:59:34","slug":"classla-express","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/classla-express\/","title":{"rendered":"CLASSLA-Express: Workshops on using CLARIN.SI spoken and web corpora in the analysis of language variation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-Express-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7201 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-Express-logo-300x261.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-Express-logo-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-Express-logo.png 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" \/><\/a>The CLASSLA-Express series of workshops is just entering its 3rd iteration (2026 edition), aiming to train participants in how to <strong>use the <a href=\"https:\/\/clarinsi.github.io\/classla-web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLASSLA-web corpora<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/clarinsi.github.io\/parlaspeech\/\">ParlaSpeech spoken corpora<\/a> in research of language variation<\/strong>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshops comprise <strong>hands-on exercises<\/strong> showing how to query and analyse textual and speech data in various South Slavic languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CLASSLA-express-3.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CLASSLA-express-3.0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1263\" height=\"710\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Registration<\/h2>\n<p>Stay tuned to registrations opening for the first two stops of CLASSLA-express 3.0. Pre-conference events at <a href=\"https:\/\/hdpl.hr\/2026-conference\/\">HDPL 2026<\/a> in Pula, Croatia, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdjt.si\/wp\/jtdh-2026-en\/\">JTDH 2026<\/a> in Ljubljana, Slovenia!<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshops offer hands-on work with spoken and web corpora. In the first part, participants will explore the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clarinsi.github.io\/parlaspeech\/\"><b>ParlaSpeech<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> parliamentary speech corpus using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/ske\/#open\">NoSketchEngine concordancer<\/a>, analyse concordances, and extract variables and speech features with the help of Praat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get a first look at the ParlaSpeech corpus, you can watch the following short video guides:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/video.arnes.si\/watch\/x2w9yy686frl\"><b>Introducing ParlaSpeech<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/video.arnes.si\/watch\/6xf6kp44vxkk\">Exploring ParlaSpeech<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the second part, participants will work with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/clarinsi.github.io\/classla-web\/\"><b>CLASSLA-web<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> corpora, build subcorpora using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/skelog\/\">NoSketchEngineLog concordancer<\/a>, and compare lexical patterns across different genres and domains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To get familiar with CLASSLA-web corpora in advance, we recommend the following video guide:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/video.arnes.si\/watch\/04tnbqzllg9d\">Introducing CLASSLA-web<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants will learn how to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">formulate corpus queries<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analyse concordances and metadata<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">extract and interpret linguistic variables from concordance data<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">build subcorpora<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">compare lexical patterns<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">explore features of spoken language<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Who is it for?\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshops are intended for students, linguists, phoneticians, lexicographers, language teachers, digital humanities researchers, and anyone interested in corpus-based language research.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first two itereations of the workshops were based on using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/ske\/#open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLARIN.SI NoSketch Engine concordancer<\/a> in order to obtain <strong>data on meanings and uses of words, word forms, collocations and grammatical patterns<\/strong>. Moreover, the exercises enable participants to explore uses of words and lexico-grammatical constructions in different types of texts. Additionally, in the 2025 edition of the CLASSLA-Express workshops, CLASSLA-Express 2.0, the focus is on <strong>testing how large language models (LLMs) perform linguistic tasks<\/strong>, identifying which tasks can be entrusted to them, and determining the tasks for which the traditional corpus-based research methods and concordancers are more suitable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshops are aimed at <strong>university students of South Slavic languages, linguists, lexicographers, language teachers and digital humanities scholars<\/strong>. They provide an opportunity for both beginners and more advanced corpus users to query corpora which reflect contemporary language use. Furthermore, the workshops introduce users and researchers of Macedonian to the first general corpus of that language \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/ske\/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_mk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLASSLA-web.mk<\/a>. The practical skills which participants will acquire may be applied in language teaching (both L1 and L2), designing corpus-informed dictionaries and grammars, as well as in digital humanities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CLASSLA-express series consists of two versions of workshops. In the CLASSLA-Express 1.0 version, we introduce participants to the established corpus-linguistic approach based on the use of corpora in concordancers. In 2025, we expanded the series with CLASSLA-Express 2.0, which incorporates large language models (LLMs) for corpus-linguistic tasks and compares their performance with traditional methods. The 2025 workshops focus on two key objectives: first, to continue the goal of sharing knowledge on the usage of language tools from the first edition; and second, to contribute to the development of a methodological framework for integrating AI tools into linguistic research. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This framework combines AI tools with corpus-based methods and establishes criteria for evaluating their results. In doing so, we further explore the benefits and challenges of incorporating LLMs into corpus linguistic research, aiming to create a methodologically sound approach for combining these two powerful toolsets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 16 October 2024, the CLASSLA-Express initiative was introduced to the CLARIN community in a paper presented at the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/event\/2024\/clarin-annual-conference-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLARIN Annual Conference 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Barcelona. The <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.01386\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLASSLA-Express paper<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/02_Ljubes\u030cic\u0301-Kuzman-Filipovic\u0301Petrovic\u0301-Parizoska-Osenova_CLARIN2024_Education.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the slides from the presentation<\/a> are published online.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about past workshops and view photos in the reports available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Past Workshops<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CLASSLA-express-1.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8907 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CLASSLA-express-1.0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CLASSLA-Express-2.0.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8059 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CLASSLA-Express-2.0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Past workshops took place from April 2024 onward in 11 cities in six countries:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19 April 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Zagreb, Croatia (<a href=\"https:\/\/web2020.ffzg.unizg.hr\/international\/about-fhss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_first_two_stops_of_CLASSLA-Express_Zagreb_and_Rijeka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">26 April 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Rijeka, Croatia (<a href=\"https:\/\/cji.uniri.hr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Language Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_first_two_stops_of_CLASSLA-Express_Zagreb_and_Rijeka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">29 May 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Belgrade, Serbia (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lat.leksikografski-susreti.rs\/po%C4%8Detna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International conference <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leksikografski susreti<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Belgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 June 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Skopje, North Macedonia (<a href=\"https:\/\/flf.ukim.mk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bla\u017ee Koneski Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Skopje\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>26 June 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.0 <\/span>stop in Sofia, Bulgaria (<a href=\"https:\/\/clada-bg.eu\/en\/dissemination\/events\/international-clada-bg-conference-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International CLaDA-BG Conference 2024<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>5 September 2024 &#8211; a workshop by Jelena Parizoska and Ivana Filipovi\u0107 Petrovi\u0107 for the members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phraconrep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhraConRep COST Action<\/a> in Osijek, Croatia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18 September 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Ljubljana, Slovenia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdjt.si\/wp\/jtdh-2024-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Language Technologies &amp; Digital Humanities Conference 2024, University of Ljubljana<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Ljubljana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20 November 2024 &#8211; CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Kragujevac, Serbia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.filum.kg.ac.rs\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=57&amp;Itemid=266&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Kragujevac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>9 January 2025 &#8211; a workshop by Petya Osenova in Sofia, Bulgaria (<a href=\"https:\/\/ibl.bas.bg\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Bulgarian Language<\/a>). Read the report <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the event<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Sofia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20 February and 28 March 2025 \u2013 workshops facilitated by Jelena Parizoska with hands-on exercises based on the CLASSLA-Express 1.0 materials in Zagreb, Croatia (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufzg.unizg.hr\/en\/faculty-of-teacher-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty of Teacher Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web2020.ffzg.unizg.hr\/international\/about-fhss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4 April 2025 \u2013 CLASSLA-Express 1.0 stop in Klagenfurt, Austria (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aau.at\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Klagenfurt<\/a>).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15 April 2025 \u2013 a workshop by Jelena Parizoska and Ivana Filipovi\u0107 Petrovi\u0107 for members of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phraconrep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PhraConRep COST Action<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Zagreb, Croatia (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/web2020.ffzg.unizg.hr\/international\/about-fhss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11 June 2025 \u2013 CLASSLA-Express 2.0 stop in Zagreb, Croatia as part of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hdpl.hr\/hdpl-skup-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HDPL 2025<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/web2020.ffzg.unizg.hr\/international\/about-fhss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb<\/a>). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_20_stop_in_Zagreb_June_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 October 2025 \u2013 CLASSLA-Express 1.0 Plus (corpora meets AI) stop in Graz, Austria (<a href=\"https:\/\/slawistik.uni-graz.at\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Graz<\/a>). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_10_Plus_Corpora_meets_AI_stop_in_Graz_October_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17 November 2025 \u2013 CLASSLA-Express 2.0 stop in Bled, Slovenia as part of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/elex.link\/elex2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eLex 2025<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> conference (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sava-hotels-resorts.com\/en\/sava-hotels-bled\/accomodations\/rikli-balance-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rikli Balance Hotel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). Read the report on the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_20_stop_in_Bled_November_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reports from the workshops:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_first_two_stops_of_CLASSLA-Express_Zagreb_and_Rijeka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Zagreb and Rijeka<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (19 and 26 April 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Belgrade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Belgrade<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (29 May 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Skopje\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Skopje<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (4 June 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Sofia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Sofia<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (26 June 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Ljubljana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Ljubljana<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (18 September 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_stop_in_Kragujevac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report from Kragujevac (20 November 2024)<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_20_stop_in_Zagreb_June_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report from Zagreb (11 June 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_10_Plus_Corpora_meets_AI_stop_in_Graz_October_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from Graz (10 October 2025)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/workshops\/#Report_from_the_CLASSLA-Express_20_stop_in_Bled_November_2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report from Bled (17 November 2025)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Past Programmes<\/h2>\n<h3>Programme of CLASSLA-Express 1.0<\/h3>\n<p>1. Part 1 (90 minutes)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction: The usage-based approach to language; the advantages of using corpora in language research (with examples from the CLASSLA-web corpora)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercises:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basic search: Concordances, Text types<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advanced search: Filter, Collocations, Frequency<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. Coffee break (30 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Part II (90 minutes):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercises: CQL queries\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Discussion and closing (30 minutes)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Programme of CLASSLA-Express 2.0<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part I (90 minutes)<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Overview of Specific Enrichments within the CLASSLA-web Corpora<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence \u2013 An Introduction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples of Using AI Tools in South Slavic Languages Research<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coffee Break (30 minutes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part II (approx. two to three hours): Hands-On Exercises \u2013 Corpora and AI-Driven Interfaces<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exercises on extracting linguistic data, creating definitions, and providing usage examples of phraseological units for dictionaries<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distinguishing literal and figurative uses of phraseological units<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identifying the distinction between animate and inanimate entities<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discussion and closing (30 minutes)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>The CLASSLA-Express Team<\/h2>\n<p>The team is made up of two linguists and three NLP scholars from three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLARIN<\/a> member countries: Bulgaria (<a href=\"https:\/\/clada-bg.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLaDA-BG<\/a>), Croatia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.hr\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR-CLARIN<\/a>), and Slovenia (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLARIN.SI<\/a>). The CLASSLA-Express workshops are supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLARIN.SI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clada-bg.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLaDA-BG<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hdpl.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (HDPL)<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjvt.si\/llm4dh\/en\/project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LLM4DH<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/clanovi\/filipovic-petrovic-ivana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Dr Ivana Filipovi\u0107 Petrovi\u0107<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Senior Research Associate at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.hazu.hr\/en\/jedinice\/zavod-za-lingvisticka-istrazivanja-u-zagrebu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linguistic Research Institute of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, specializing in phraseology, historical and electronic lexicography, and the application of digital tools in lexicography. She is involved in several projects, coordinating the online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/frazeoloski-rjecnik.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dictionary of Croatian Idioms project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and contributing as a researcher to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/benesic.hazu.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dictionary of the Croatian Literary Language<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (vol. S\u2013\u017d) and the Croatian Science Foundation Project <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/semtactic.jezik.hr\/en\/o-projektu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Semantic-Syntactic Classification of Verbs in Croatian<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Ivana is active in the COST Actions <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phraconrep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PhraConRep<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she leads workshops on using corpora and AI tools for researching phraseme constructions, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eneoli.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ENEOLI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she coordinates Croatian equivalents in a multilingual neology thesaurus. In addition to her research, Ivana has co-organized and co-convened several workshops on using <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CLARIN.SI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> corpora in language research across South Slavic countries. Ivana was part of the local organizing committee for the Euralex 2024 Congress, co-chaired the organizing committee of the LinguaDOC conference for doctoral students, received the 2022 Best Project award at the Linguistic Linked Open Data Datathon, and is currently the Head of the Zagreb Branch of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hdpl.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Croatian Society for Applied Linguistics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a member of the editorial board of Studia Lexicographica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufzg.unizg.hr\/zaposlenici\/parizoska-jelena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Dr Jelena Parizoska<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Assistant Professor at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufzg.unizg.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Zagreb. Her research focuses on idiomatic expressions in English and Croatian within the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics. She has taught university courses in figurative language, English syntax, lexicology and lexicography, and English for Specific Purposes. She is currently involved in two COST Actions: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ivi.ac.rs\/en\/project\/cost-ca21167-universality-diversity-and-idiosyncrasy-in-language-technology-unidive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CA21167 Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022-2026) and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ff.um.si\/projekt\/a-multilingual-repository-of-phraseme-constructions-in-central-and-eastern-european-languages-vecjezicni-repozitorij-frazeoloskih-konstrukcij-v-srednje-in-vzhodnoevropskih-jezikih\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CA22115 A Multilingual Repository of Phraseme Constructions in Central and Eastern European Languages<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023-2027).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Petya Osenova<\/strong> is professor, PhD in Contemporary Bulgarian Grammar (morphology, syntax and corpus linguistics) in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slav.uni-sofia.bg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty of Slavic Studies<\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-sofia.bg\/index.php\/eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sofia University \u201cSt. Kl. Ohridski\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and senior researcher in the\u00a0Department of AI and Language Technologies\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iict.bas.bg\/EN\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Information and Communication Technologies<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bas.bg\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/a>. Her scientific interests are in the fields of formal and computational linguistics, language resources, language modelling, lexicon-grammar interface. She was a key person in a number of EU projects, related to eLearning, Machine Translation, Language. She is the responsible person for the language resources in <a href=\"https:\/\/clada-bg.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLaDA-BG<\/a> \u2013 the CLARIN and DARIAH joint framework in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian representative at the User Involvement Committee in CLARIN-ERIC. Petya Osenova specialized in computational linguistics as a postdoctoral fellow in the Tuebingen University, Germany (2003) and in Groningen University, the Netherlands (2004); as a Fulbrighter at Stanford University, the USA (2010). In 2018 Petya Osenova received the award of Clarivate Analytics for excellence in science research in South-Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nljubesi.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Nikola Ljube\u0161i\u0107<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/taja-kuzman.notion.site\/Taja-Kuzman-8fdda29e5968470286b57421984ed21d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Taja Kuzman Punger\u0161ek<\/strong><\/a> are researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/kt.ijs.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jo\u017eef Stefan Institute<\/a>, Slovenia. Their research interests cover a broad spectrum of natural language processing (NLP) tasks including web corpus construction (cf., <a href=\"https:\/\/macocu.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MaCoCu<\/a> project), development of tools for automatic linguistic annotation for South Slavic languages (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clarinsi\/classla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLASSLA-Stanza pipeline<\/a>), specialization of language models for under-resourced languages (cf., <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/classla\/bcms-bertic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BERTi\u0107<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/huggingface.co\/classla\/xlm-r-bertic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XLM-R-BERTi\u0107<\/a> models), development of speech corpora and automatic speech recognition models (cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/11356\/1494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ParlaSpeech<\/a> corpora and <a href=\"https:\/\/mezzanine.um.si\/en\/mezzanine-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEZZANINE<\/a> project), <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clarinsi\/benchich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benchmarking South Slavic NLP technologies<\/a>, application of NLP methods to South Slavic dialects (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/vardial-2024\/shared-tasks\/dialect-copa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VarDial DIALECT-COPA<\/a> shared task), and machine learning tasks, including hate speech detection (cf. <a href=\"http:\/\/imsypp.ijs.si\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMSyPP<\/a> project), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/repository\/xmlui\/handle\/11356\/1681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">topic detection<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2504-4990\/5\/3\/59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">automatic genre identification<\/a>. They are the leaders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLASSLA centre (CLARIN Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages)<\/a> which offers expertise on language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages. Nikola and Taja are the main developers behind the CLASSLA-web corpora which are showcased in the CLASSLA-Express workshops.<\/p>\n<h2>About CLASSLA<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLARIN Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages (CLASSLA)<\/a> offers\u00a0<strong>expertise on language resources and technologies for South Slavic languages<\/strong>. Its basic activities are (1) giving researchers, students, citizen scientists and other interested parties information on the available resources and technologies via its documentation, (2) supporting them in producing, modifying or publishing resources and technologies via its helpdesk and (3) organizing training activities.\u00a0Read more about CLASSLA\u2019s activities and its mission in a Tour de CLARIN article, published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.eu\/blog\/tour-de-clarin-clarin-knowledge-centre-south-slavic-languages-classla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0helpdesk of CLASSLA<\/strong>\u00a0can be contacted via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:helpdesk.classla@clarin.si\">helpdesk.classla@clarin.si<\/a><\/strong>. The helpdesk offers additional clarifications regarding the CLASSLA documentation (detailed below) and support in using, modifying, producing, or publishing resources and technologies for South Slavic languages.<\/p>\n<p>The Knowledge Centre currently offers\u00a0<strong>frequently asked questions (FAQ) documentation<\/strong> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/faq4slovene\">Slovene<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/faq4croatian\">Croatian,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/faq4serbian\">Serbian<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/faq4bulgarian\/\">Bulgarian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/faq4macedonian\/\">Macedonian<\/a>\u00a0language. It also offers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/web-services-documentation\/\">documentation<\/a>\u00a0on how to use CLARIN.SI web services which currently cover Slovene, Croatian and Serbian.<\/p>\n<p>The most relevant announcements, discussed in\u00a0<strong>our mailing list<\/strong>, are made available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/k-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. You can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.ijs.si\/mailman\/listinfo\/classla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe to the mailing list here<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>to be informed of new resources, technologies, events and projects for South Slavic languages.<\/p>\n<p>CLASSLA is operated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarin.si\/\">CLARIN.SI<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ihjj.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Croatian Language<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clada-bg.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLaDA-BG<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7196 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background-300x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background-1024x336.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background-768x252.png 768w, https:\/\/www.clarin.si\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CLASSLA-k-centre-transparent-background.png 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7157\" data-postid=\"7157\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7157 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CLASSLA-Express series of workshops is just entering its 3rd iteration (2026 edition), aiming to train participants in how to use the CLASSLA-web corpora and ParlaSpeech spoken corpora in research of language variation. 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