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CLARIN Annual Conference 2021
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CLARIN is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2021 and
calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the
European research infrastructure that makes digital language
resources available to scholars, researchers, students and
citizen-scientists from all disciplines, coordinates work on
collecting language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools
to discover, explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such
datasets, wherever they are located.
Submission deadline (extended!): 28 April 2021
LOCATION
In 2021 we hope to be able to at least partially return to the
traditional face-to-face format, for which in 2021 Madrid, Spain,
would be the venue. The event will be prepared by CLARIN ERIC, in
collaboration with LINHD (Digital Humanities Innovation Labies
Innovation Lab) and UNED (National Distance Education University
of Spain). Final decision on the conference format will be taken
closer to the dates of the event.
IMPORTANT DATES
19 January 2021: 1st Call for Abstracts issued
1 March 2021: 2nd Call for Abstracts issued
12 April 2021: 3rd Call
for Abstracts issued 28 April 2021: Submission deadline (extended!)
30 June 2021: Notification of acceptance
27 August 2021: Camera-ready submission deadline
27-29 September 2021: CLARIN Annual Conference
CONFERENCE AIMS
The CLARIN Annual Conference is organized for the wider Humanities
and Social Sciences community in order to exchange experiences and
best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to
share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a
range of topics, including the design, construction and operation
of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it
contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers,
teachers or interested parties, its relation to other
infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing
Infrastructure.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The keynote speakers for the 10th CLARIN Annual Conference will
be:
- Elena González-Blanco (General Manager of Europe at CoverWallet,
Director and Founder of LINHD, Spain);
- Marco Passarotti (Director of the CIRCSE Research Centre,
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy);
- Tomáš Mikolov (senior researcher leading a new group studying
unsupervised learning inspired by evolutionary principles at
CIIRC, Czech Institute for Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
of the Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic).
CONFERENCE TOPICS
We invite submissions describing CLARIN related work addressing
the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN infrastructure, e.g.
- Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in Humanities and Social
Sciences research and beyond
- Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services,
- Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies
- Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer
communities, including Digital Humanities, computer science,
human-centered AI
- Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are
relevant to CLARIN
- Teaching and learning cases in which CLARIN resources and
services are involved Design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, e.g.
- Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure
- Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing
- Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms
- Access, including authentication and authorisation
- Search, including Federated Content Search
- Web applications, web services, workflows
- Standards and solutions for interoperability of language
resources, tools and services,
- Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including
issues in curation, migration, financing and cooperation
- Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination, e.g.
- User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs),
- CLARIN portals and outreach to users,
- Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures,
- Researcher training activities,
- Knowledge infrastructure centres CLARIN in relation with other infrastructures, initiatives and
projects, e.g.
- SSH research infrastructures such as DARIAH, CESSDA, etc.
- Generic infrastructural initiatives such as Europeana, etc.
- Projects such as SSHOC, TRIPLE, ELE, ELEXIS, ELG, Prêt-à-LLOD,
etc.
- National and regional initiatives
FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS
The conference programme may include oral presentations, posters,
and demos. The type of session for which a paper will be selected
depending on the appropriateness of the type of communication
(more or less interactive) in view of the content of the paper.
The authors of accepted submissions will be provided an additional
opportunity to demo their work. Conference organisers will ensure the authors of accepted
contributions to have a possibility to present and discuss their
work irrespective of the event format (face-to-face, hybrid or
virtual).
SUBMISSIONS
The language of the conference is English and presentations will
be made in English. Proposals for oral or poster presentations
(optionally with demo) must be submitted as extended abstracts
(length: 3-4 pages A4 including references) in PDF format, in
accordance with the template (ZIP-archive, Overleaf template).
Authors can freely choose between anonymous and non-anonymous
submission.
Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant
to the CLARIN activities, resources, tools or services and
this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the
submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference.
Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure
that are currently not in place are also eligible. It is not
required that the authors are or have been directly involved in
national or cross-national CLARIN projects.
Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair
submission system and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following
criteria:
- Appropriateness: the contribution must pertain to the CLARIN
infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g., its use, design,
construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible
applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly
articulated in the submission.
- Soundness and Correctness: the content must be technically and
factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound,
according to best practice, and preferably evaluated.
- Meaningful Comparison: the abstract must indicate that the
author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight
relevant differences.
- Substance: concrete work and experiences will be preferred over
ideas and plans.
- Impact: contributions with a higher impact on the research
community and society at large will be preferred over papers with
lower impact.
- Clarity: the abstract should be clearly written and well
structured.
- Timeliness and Novelty: the work must convey relevant new
knowledge to the audience at this event.
PhD STUDENTS SPECIAL SESSION
After the success of last years' editions, the edition of this
year will again feature a PhD Students Session. The aim of the
session is to enable PhD students to share the next generation of
research that is supported by or contributing to the CLARIN
infrastructure, and receive feedback on their work from CLARIN
experts.
Submissions are welcomed by PhD students (i) who already benefit
from using the CLARIN infrastructure in their research, (ii) whose
envisaged project results could contribute to the enrichment of
the CLARIN infrastructure (new corpora; new showcases; support for
new languages, new formats, etc.) and/or (iii) who can demonstrate
the added value of methodological frameworks for the analysis of
language data that CLARIN could support.
Students are invited to submit a 500-word abstract with a
description of their PhD project. Submitted abstracts should
clearly articulate how the PhD work is making use of the CLARIN
infrastructure or how the results will contribute to CLARIN.
Accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website.
After the conference, authors of an accepted abstract may submit a
full paper to be reviewed for the post-conference proceedings.
ATTENDANCE
In case the dynamics of the pandemic would allow the conference to
take place in traditional format, for each accepted abstract one
author will be granted reimbursement of travel costs (up to 220
Euros), free accommodation and meals. Otherwise, all authors of
accepted contributions will be provided with a possibility to
present and discuss their work in the virtual format.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted submissions will be published in the conference Book of
Abstracts. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted
submissions will be invited to submit full papers (max. 12 pages)
to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts.
Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference
proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic
Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print),
1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the
following members:
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany
Attie de Lange, South African Centre for Digital Language
Resources, South Africa
Nicolas Larrousse, Huma-Num, France
Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics «A.
Zampolli», Italy (CHAIR)
Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology,
Poland
Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece
Eirikur Rögnvaldsson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic
Studies, Iceland
Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia, Latvia
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia
Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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