In 2014 the CLARIN Annual Conference (CAC2014) was held at the Kontakt der Kontinenten conference hotel in Soesterberg, The Netherlands. CAC2014 is organized for the humanities and social sciences community to exchange ideas and experiences on the CLARIN infrastructure. This includes its design and construction, its operation and use, data and services that it contains or should contain, research carried out with the CLARIN infrastructure, the relation of CLARIN to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure.
Selected papers from the CLARIN 2014 Conference
The selected papers from the CLARIN Conference 2014 have been (digitally) published by Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet.The conference proceedings in this volume present a selection of the highlights of the CLARIN 2014 Annual Conference in which members of the CLARIN community share their experiences and results.
Acces to the Selected papers from the CLARIN 2014 Conference
Registration
Registration is closed.
Participation in this event is by invitation only. If you have been selected to attend the conference, you have received registration information from your national coordinator or the CLARIN office.
How to get there
By airplan
The best way to get to the conference hotel in Soesterberg from Schiphol Airport (AMS) is to take the train to Amersfoort (45 minutes), which runs every 30 minutes. In Amersfoort you can take bus 52 (direction Wijk bij Duurstede) or 56 (direction Driebergen-Zeist) to the conference venue in Soesterberg (bus stop "Kontakt der Kontinenten"). The entire journey will take between 70 and 90 minutes. Please plan your journey in advance using this website. You can buy a single use OV-chipcard at the Schiphol train station using the NS self-service ticket machine. The train journey from Schiphol to Amersfoort costs around €10. Bus tickets can be bought from the bus driver and cost €2.60 for the trip from Amersfoort to the conference hotel.
By bus
If your train stops at Amersfoort, please see the instructions above regarding the bus journey from Amersfoort to the conference hotel. If your train stops at Utrecht Central Station, you can also take bus 52 (direction Amersfoort) to the conference hotel (bus stop "Kontakt der Kontinenten"). Please plan your journey in advance using this website. Bus tickets can be bought from the bus driver and cost €4.20 for the trip from Utrecht to the conference hotel.
Presenters' guidelines
Guidelines for presenters of papers, posters and/or demos can be found here.
Abstracts
An overview of the extended abstracts of the papers, posters and demos that were presented during the Annual Meeting 2014 can be found here. Abstracts are not available for the posters presented by the future CLARIN ERIC members (Sweden, Slovenia, Finland).
Programme
A pdf of the final programme is now available.
Day 1: pre-conference workshops and opening ceremony
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Thursday 13 October 2014 | Room |
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| 10:00 | DataCite workshop | St. Jan |
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| 11:15 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
| 11:45 | DataCite workshop | St. Jan |
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| 13:00 |
Lunch |
Restaurant |
| 14:00 | CLARIN developers' brainstorm session | St. Jan |
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| 14:00-18:00 Closed Board of Directors meeting | Mozambique | |
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| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
| 16:30 | CLARIN developers' brainstorm session | St. Jan |
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| 18:00 |
Dinner |
Ceciliakapel |
| 20:00 | CAC2014 opening ceremony (Jan Odijk, PDF) | St.Jan |
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Visualizing Literature: Trees, Maps and Networks Invited talk by Jan Rybicki Jagiellonian University (Prezi) |
St. Jan |
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| 21:00 |
Drinks |
Steyl |
Day 2: Papers,Posters and committee meetings
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Friday 14 October 2014 | Room |
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| 9:00 |
General Session: Status of the Infrastructure with contributions of: Steven Krauwer, Dieter van Uytvanck, Erhard Hinrichs, Martin Wynne and Bente Maegaard |
St. Jan |
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Paper session 10:00 CLARIN Centers for a Sustainable Infrastructure (PDF) Daan Broeder and Jan Odijk 10:25 Too Many Varied User Requirements for Digital Humanities Projects (PDF) Max Kemman and Martijn Kleppe 10:50 : Experiences with Making a Service Available for Users Worldwide (PDF) Jozef Mišutka, Ondřej Košarko, Amir Kamran, Michal Josífko and Pavel Straňák |
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| 11:15 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
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Paper session 11:45 On using the repository software to support a CLARIN centre (PDF) Neeme Kahusk, Stelios Piperidis, Juli Bakagianni and Jussi Piitulainen 12:10 Services of LINDAT/CLARINCentre (PDF) Jan Hajič, Eva Hajičová, Jozef Mišutka and Pavel Straňák 12:35 WebAnno: a flexible, web-based annotation tool for CLARIN (PDF) Richard Eckart De Castilho, Chris Biemann, Iryna Gurevych and Seid Muhie Yimam |
St. Jan |
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Lunch |
Restaurant |
| 14:30 | Parallel sessions | |
| User Involvement meeting (open to all!) | St. Jan | |
| Joint and CAC meeting | Congo | |
| CLARIN Legal and Ethical Issues Committee: closed meeting | Angola | |
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| 16:00 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
| 16:30 | Parallel sessions | |
| User Involvement meeting (continues - still open to all!) | St. Jan | |
| Joint SCCTC and CAC meeting | Congo | |
| 17:00-18:00 Metadata curation taskforce meeting | Botswana | |
| 17:00-18:00 AAI taskforce meeting | Angola | |
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Poster and demo session Air Traffic Control Communication (ATCC) Speech Corpus User Delegation in the CLARIN Infrastructure Towards a DH Knowledge Hub - Step 1: Vocabularies Annotating coherence relations in corpora of language use Data curations by the Dutch Data Curation Service Making Assyrian texts available to the public The CLARIN-D Help Desk 1.2: Improvements in the CLARIN Component Metadata Infrastructure Twan Goosen, Menzo Windhouwer, Oddrun Ohren, Axel Herold, Thomas Eckart, Matej Ďurčo and Oliver Schonefeld The use and mutual interoperability of computer programmes Folker, Elan and Praat for multimodal linguistic annotation WebAnno: a flexible, web-based annotation tool for CLARIN Too Many Varied User Requirements for Digital Humanities Projects Using automatically annotated corpora in language variation research CLARIN.SI: the Slovene CLARIN Infrastructure |
Steyl |
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| 19:00 |
Dinner |
Restaurant |
Day 3: Final papers and posters
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Saturday 15 October 2014 | Room |
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Paper session Build your own treebank (PDF) Daniël de Kok, Dörte de Kok and Marie Hinrichs 09:25 Using automatically annotated corpora in language variation research (PDF) Jelke Bloem, Arjen Versloot and Fred Weerman 09:50 Using Data Mining and the CLARIN Infrastructure to Christian Pölitz and Thomas Bartz 10:15 Auxiliary Fronting in German Subordinate Clauses: Erhard Hinrichs |
St. Jan |
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| 10:40 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
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Paper session |
St. Jan |
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CLARIN'sVirtual Language Observatory (
) under scrutiny: Susanne Haaf, Peter Fankhauser and Thorsten Trippel 11:35 Reusing CMDI components for a textCorpusProfile Lene Offersgaard and Dorte Hansen 12:00 COMEDI: Another component metadata editor (PDF) Gunn Inger Lyse, Paul Meurer and Koenraad De Smedt |
St. Jan |
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Lunch |
Restaurant |
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Poster and demo session Advance Search in CLARIN Text Corpora Virtual Language Observatory 3.0: What'sNew? Implementation of Persistent Identifiers in Clarin.dk TeLeMaCo -A tool for the dissemination of teaching and learning materials Spokes - Asearch and exploration service for conversational corpus data Eugenics revisited in hidden debates by means of multilingual semantic text-mining with the Biland demonstrator Your Data at the Center of Attention: A Metadata Session Profile for Multimodal Corpora AAI: Experiences with Making a Service Available for Users Worldwide Services of Lindat/CLARIN Centre COMEDI: Another component metadata editor Build your own treebank SWE-CLARIN – current status and future prospects FIN-CLARIN and the Language Bank of Finland |
St. Jan |
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| 15:00 | CLARIN Young Scientist Award ceremony | St. Jan |
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| 15:10 | General session: Looking Forward | St. Jan |
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| 16:00 | End of conference | Lounge |
| 16:30 | : closed meeting | Angola |
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| 19:00 |
Dinner |
Restaurant |
Day 4: post-conference SAB meeting
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Sunday 16 October 2014 | Room |
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| 9:00 | Scientific Advisory Board: closed meeting | Angola |
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| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
Lounge |
| 11:00 | Scientific Advisory Board: closed meeting | Angola |
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
Restaurant |
Contact
For general information on the conference please contact us via events [at] clarin.eu (events[at]clarin[dot]eu)
More information about previous CLARIN Annual Conferences can be found here
Conferentiehotel Kontakt der Kontinenten
Amersfoortsestraat 20
3769 AS Soesterberg
Netherlands