{"id":7679,"date":"2013-07-02T19:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2013-07-02T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:00:50","slug":"the-long-road-to-language-resources-clarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2013\/07\/the-long-road-to-language-resources-clarin\/","title":{"rendered":"The long road to language resources\u2014CLARIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLARIN, the ‘Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure’<\/a> is a European initiative to support the creation, curation and exploration of language material for research purposes and for as broad an audience as possible. The stated aim is that you should not need to be a technical expert to use the corpora, lexica and annotations that are targeted in CLARIN.<\/p>\n

It is part of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). <\/a> This is a huge project, with a budget of some \u20ac104 million<\/a>. CLARIN-D is the German section of CLARIN and it recently had its 2-year showcase, which I was able to attend (see current activities at http:\/\/clarin-d.net\/de\/aktuelles\/<\/a>). Given that this is the first two years of a longterm project it has clearly achieved a great deal already, and certainly more than can be glimpsed in a short blog post.<\/p>\n

This is part of a ‘roadmap’ process that actually leads somewhere, unlike the Australian version I reported on earlier<\/a> that appears to have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars only to have been abandoned even before it was published.<\/p>\n

In its place arose yet another committee structure, the Australian Research Committee<\/a> (not to be confused with the Australian Research Council) which is now setting a new Australian research agenda and that includes not a single Humanities and Social Science (HASS) researcher in its membership (see its webpage<\/a>). This ARCommittee released a set of guidelines on June 21st<\/a> which may, for the next period, be important for funding applications to the Australian government.<\/p>\n

But I digress. Back to CLARIN-D and the 9 centres in Germany working on a timeline ending in 2020 (yes, a funding programme that covers 12 years!).
\nThe sort of questions that CLARIN should be able to answer are:<\/p>\n