Nordic CLARIN Network 2014-2017 Bente Maegaard University of Copenhagen bmaegaard@hum.ku.dk 11 December 2017

Nordic CLARIN Network is supported by NordForsk Application February 2014 Funding from September 2014 3 years, plus 4 months 5 Nordic countries In 2014: DK member NO observer SE, FI, IS not members, but interested 2017: DK, NO, SE, FI are members IS is preparing

Purpose of NCN Instruments Collaborate in the CLARIN context Exchange experience Share knowledge, tools etc. Instruments Workshops General workshops – annual meetings Thematic workshops – majority Held in DK (2), SE (3), NO (2), FI (2) and IS (1) Funding for 15 participants per workshop in average

First annual meeting Copenhagen 9-10 March 2015 Session on corpora, corpus tools and access Korp, Glossa, Corpuscle, corpora at the Arni Magnusson Institute, access: REMS and AAI Session on Speech Tools for speech Session on semantics WebAnno, WordTites Session on tools for visualisation Morfessor, Self-Organising Maps Tools Språkbanken’s labs, ScriptLog, tools for Icelandic, searching treebanks, tool chaining Metadata CMDI, COMEDI

Workshops 2015 Helsinki, 9-10 June 2015 Gothenburg 5-6 October 2015 Named Entity Recognition Gothenburg 5-6 October 2015 historical resources, language tools for working with historical resources, and research questions utilizing such resources and tools.

Annual meeting 2016 Oslo 14-15 March 2016 Tools sessions: Large concordances, Language Analysis Portal, lemmatisers, CMDI improvements, non-contemporary texts: use of tools for contemporary texts Social science (3 contributions) Speech

Workshops 2016 Helsinki, 9-10 June 2016 Bergen, 9 November 2016 FIN-CLARIN Jubilee seminar Focus on presentations by the Finnish team Thematic: Sentiments, social media Bergen, 9 November 2016 Language Resources and Technologies for the Social and Political Sciences

Workshops 2017 Gothenburg 3-4 May 2017 Reykjavik 13 June 2017 Interaction design in the context of CLARIN, includes visualisation, many different tools, tree banks, learner corpora etc Reykjavik 13 June 2017 Meeting with representatives of ministry, research council etc. Presentation of Icelandic language technology and CLARIN (general and SE, FI, DK) Stockholm 27-28 September 2017 “Found data” in speech and language technology (data that were not collected to make a corpus) Copenhagen 11-12 December 2017 Final event

Summary 3 workshops in 2015 and 2016, 4 workshops in 2017 In total 10 workshops Good distribution over themes Good participation, given the financial possibilities Watch out for other calls which could give a possibility to continue the collaboration and sharing of tools and knowledge.

Thank you for your attention bmaegaard@hum.ku.dk