1. Nordic CLARIN Network 2014-2017
Bente Maegaard
University of Copenhagen
11 December 2017

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 September 2017
“Found data” in speech and language technology (data that were not collected to make a corpus)
Copenhagen December 2017
Final event

9. 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.

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