1. CLARIN - Flanders Activities and Achievements Frank Van Eynde Center for Computational Linguistics (KU Leuven) Digital Humanities Spring Event, 28-29 April 2015 Faculty of Arts (KU Leuven)

2. A fact about HSS In the Humanities and the Social Sciences (HSS) much of the research is language based Linguistics Literary studies History Philosophy Theology Communication sciences Branches of sociology, law and psychology For the HSS scholar the universe of texts and recorded speech is what the cosmos is for the astronomer and the natural world for the biologist.

3. A need of HSS Biology has benefited from the microscope. Astronomy has benefited from the telescope. HSS can benefit from the tools and resources which have been developed in the fields of Language and Speech Technology (LST). BUT: the LST products are insufficiently available to HSS researchers and HSS researchers are insufficiently prepared to make good use of them. ERGO: the great potential of LST for HSS is not yet realized.

4. The answer : CLARIN  The pan-European CLARIN program aims to set up and maintain a persistent research infrastructure allowing HSS researchers to use state-of-the-art LST products and resources.  How? Turning the existing fragmented technology and resources into an accessible, flexible and stable services network available from the user's desktop.  Special attention for user-friendliness: easy to use, also for people with a limited knowledge of technology.  Opening new perspectives for research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

5. HSS Researcher User is only confronted with the ‘outside’, the internal organisation of the RI is hidden

6. CLARIN : scope and status  All languages spoken and/or studied in the European countries are covered (+/- 100)  For each country 1.its official language(s), plus 2.languages outside Europe (Inuit languages, native-American languages, African languages, extinct languages, …)  February 29, 2012: creation of the CLARIN ERIC http://www.clarin.eu/  13 members : Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, the Dutch Language Union http://www.clarin.eu/clarin-eric-datatables/centres

7. CLARIN - Flanders  TTNWW Language and Speech Technology for Dutch as a web service Marc Kemps-Snijders (Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam) Ineke Schuurman (CCL, Leuven) https://dev.clarin.nl/node/1964  STYLENE An environment for stylometry and readability research Walter Daelemans (CLIPS, Antwerpen) Veronique Hoste (LT 3, Gent) http://www.stylene.be/

8. CLARIN - Flanders  SPRAAK2TAAL A web service for sentiment and opinion analysis in written and spoken discourse Sien Moens (Computer Science, Leuven) Patrick Wambacq (ESAT, Leuven)  NEDERBOOMS Treebank mining for data-based linguistics Liesbeth Augustinus, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde (CCL, Leuven) http://nederbooms.ccl.kuleuven.be

9. GRETEL  GRETEL 2.0 More search facilities, larger treebanks, user tests CCL (Leuven) and U-Sentric (Leuven)  CLARIN EDUCATIEVE MODULE User manual, demonstration material, case studies Meertens Instituut (Amsterdam) and CCL (Leuven)  AFRIBOOMS Parser and treebank for Afrikaans, Gretel for Afrikaans Centre for Text Technology (Potchefstroom, South Africa) and CCL (Leuven)

10. Keynote speaker Jan Odijk Bachelor in Slavonic Languages and Literature (Utrecht) Master in General Linguistics (Utrecht) PhD on compositionality and syntactic generalizations (Tilburg) Professor in Language & Speech Technology (Utrecht) Rosetta (Philips, Eindhoven) Director Linguistic Resources (Lernout & Hauspie, Ieper) Director Linguistic Resources (Nuance, Merelbeke) Chairman of the Dutch-Flemish STEVIN program committee Program Director of CLARIN-NL Program Director of CLARIAH-NL

11. THANK YOU !