CLARIN and its Swiss node: supporting research based on language resources - Information session

CLARIN is a pan-European Research Infrastructure, which provides accessibility to all European digital language resources and tools through a single sign-on online environment. The CLARIN community offers long-term solutions and technology  services for deploying, connecting, analyzing and sustaining digital language data (e.g. various types of corpora, dictionaries, glossaries) and tools (e.g. corpus management and exploration systems, speech processing systems, NLP pipelines). CLARIN supports scholars who want to engage in pioneering data-driven research, contributing to a multilingual European Research Area. In addition, CLARIN is also an infrastructural initiative that is fully committed to the European agenda towards Open Science. By offering resources in open access and promoting the curation and depositing of data in alignment with the requirements for the interoperability of data and services, CLARIN has paved the way for large-scale data sharing and increased reuse of resources.

In Switzerland, the CLARIN-CH Consortium represents an inter-university national network of scholars working on language related issues in various sub-disciplines, including Dialectology, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Speech Technology, etc. CLARIN-CH aims to bring together the research community using language resources, foster the sharing of resources and expertise, encourage collaborations by implementing focused inter-university Working Groups, and give Swiss researchers access to CLARIN’s resources, tools, services and research network.

By getting actively involved in CLARIN-CH and CLARIN Europe, Swiss scholars will benefit of: (i) an increased visibility of their assets (research projects, data, tools, methodologies, expertise, etc.), (ii) a better access to European digital language resources and cutting-edge language technologies, (iii) involvement in European collaborative research projects, (iv) access to numerous funding opportunities (workshops, summer schools,  mobility grants, etc.).