CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure

Tamás Váradi, Steven Krauwer, Peter Wittenburg, Martin Wynne, Kimmo Koskenniemi


Abstract
The paper provides a general introduction to the CLARIN project, a large-scale European research infrastructure project designed to establish an integrated and interoperable infrastructure of language resources and technologies. The goal is to make language resources and technology much more accessible to all researchers working with language material, particularly non-expert users in the Humanities and Social Sciences. CLARIN intends to build a virtual, distributed infrastructure consisting of a federation of trusted digital archives and repositories where language resources and tools are accessible through web services. The CLARIN project consists of 32 partners from 22 countries and is currently engaged in the preparatory phase of developing the infrastructure. The paper describes the objectives of the project in terms of its technical, legal, linguistic and user dimensions.
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L08-1008
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Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)
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May
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2008
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Marrakech, Morocco
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/317_paper.pdf
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Tamás Váradi, Steven Krauwer, Peter Wittenburg, Martin Wynne, and Kimmo Koskenniemi. 2008. CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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CLARIN: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (Váradi et al., LREC 2008)
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