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Oggetto: [Ncf] CLARIN ANNUAL CONFERENCE: deadline for Abstracts extended to April 30
Data: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:23:34 +0300
Mittente: inguna.skadina@lumii.lv
A: ncf@lists.clarin.eu


Dear National coordinators,

Please, find below information about deadline extension for CLARIN 
conference. Please, distrubute it in National consortia and other 
interested organizations.

Best wishes,
Inguna

Submission deadline for Abstracts extended to April 30, 2018

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CLARIN ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
8–10 October 2018, Pisa

Special topic: multimedia, multimodality, speech

Submission deadline (extended): April 30, 2018

Conference Website: 
https://www.clarin.eu/event/2018/clarin-annual-conference-2018-pisa-italy
Call for abstracts: 
https://www.clarin.eu/news/call-papers-clarin-annual-conference-2018
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2018
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CLARIN ERIC is happy to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2018 and 
calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is a 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.

IMPORTANT DATES

- 30 April 2018 Submission deadline
- 2 July 2018 Notification of acceptance
- 10 September 2018 Final version of extended abstracts due
- 8–10 October 2018 CLARIN Annual Conference

CONFERENCE AIMS

The CLARIN Annual Conference is organized for the wider Humanities and 
Social Sciences communities in order to exchange ideas and experiences 
with the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes 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, its 
relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge 
Sharing Infrastructure.


KEYNOTE  SPEAKERS

We are proud to have the following keynote speakers at CLARIN 2018:
• James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
• Costanza Navarretta,University of Copenhagen, Denmark


CONFERENCE TOPICS

Special topic: multimedia, multimodality, speech

We especially invite papers for a thematic session in the areas of 
multimedia, multimodality and speech. Topics of interest include, but 
are not limited to, the collection, annotation, processing and study of 
audio, visual or multimedia data with language as an important part of 
the content, for instance the following:

• Multimedia (including image/video processing and 
multimedia/interactive/algorithmic literature)
• Spoken data (including dialogue and media studies)
• Multimodal data (including Oral History, sign languages and 
e-learning)

Other topics:

Use of the CLARIN infrastructure, e.g.
•Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in Humanities and Social Sciences 
research
•Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services
•Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage, identification of user 
audience and impact studies
•Showcases, demonstrations and research projects in Humanities and 
Social Sciences that are relevant to CLARIN

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 single sign-on 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 and projects, e.g.
•Relations with other SSH research infrastructures such as DARIAH, 
CESSDA, etc.
•Relations with meta-infrastructure projects such as EUDAT, RDA and 
Digital Humanities
•Relations with national and regional initiatives


FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS

The programme of both the general sessions and the thematic session may 
include oral presentations, posters, and demos. The type of session for 
which a paper will be selected will be not be dependent on the quality 
of the paper but only on the appropriateness of the type of 
communication (more or less interactive) in view of the content of the 
paper.

SUBMISSIONS

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. 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 proposal. 
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 both individual criteria and global 
criteria. The latter include thematic, linguistic and geographical 
spread. Individual acceptance criteria are the following:
•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.). In addition, submissions to the special thematic 
session will be selected on the basis of their appropriateness to the 
special topic.
•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 extended abstract must be informative, clear and 
understandable for the CLARIN audience.
•Timeliness and novelty: the work must convey relevant new knowledge to 
the audience at this event.


ATTENDANCE

For each accepted presentation one author will be granted reimbursement 
of travel costs (up to 220 Euros), free accommodation and meals.

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 at 
Linköping University Electronic Press within about 8 months after the 
conference.

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
•Griet Depoorter, Dutch Language Institute, The Netherlands/Flanders
•Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
•Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
•Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
•Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany
•Nicolas Larrousse, Huma-Num, France
•Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland
•Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
•Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics «A. Zampolli», 
Italy
•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
•Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
•Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Latvia (chair)
•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

PROCEEDINGS OF SELECTED PAPERS FROM PREVIOUS CLARIN CONFERENCES
•CLARIN 2014: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=116
•CLARIN 2015: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=123
•CLARIN 2016: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=136

LINKS
•CLARIN ERIC website: http://www.clarin.eu
•CLARIN Annual Conference 2018 website: 
https://www.clarin.eu/event/2018/clarin-annual-conference-2018-pisa-italy
•EasyChair submission: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2018
•Template for submissions: 
https://www.clarin.eu/sites/default/files/CLARIN2018templates.zip
•Contact for general information on the conference: events@clarin.eu
•Contact for information on the call for papers and programme: 
clarin2018@easychair.org
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