A Fact about HSS

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HSS Researcher
User is only confronted with the outside, the
internal organisation of the RI is hidden
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CLARIN scope and status

• All languages spoken and/or studied in the
  European countries are covered (/- 100)
• For each country
• its official language(s), plus
• languages outside Europe (Inuit languages,
  native-American languages, African languages,
  extinct languages, )
• Identified in 2006 by ESFRI as a major research
  infrastructure for humanities and social sciences
• 156 members, of which 33 actively participated in
  the European part of the preparatory phase
  (2008-2010)

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Preparatory Phase

• TTNWW
• Language and speech technology for Dutch as a
  web service
• Ineke Schuurman (CCL, Leuven)
• Marc Kemps-Snijders (Meertens Instituut,
  Amsterdam)
• STYLENE
• An environment for stylometry and readability
  research
• Walter Daelemans (CLIPS, Antwerpen)
• Veronique Hoste (LT3, Gent)

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Preparatory Phase

• NEDERBOOMS
• Treebank mining for data-based linguistics
• Liesbeth Augustinus (CCL, Leuven)
• Vincent Vandeghinste (CCL, Leuven)
• SPRAAK2TAAL
• A web service for sentiment and opinion
  analysis in written
• and spoken discourse
• Sien Moens (Computer Science, Leuven)
• Patrick Wambacq (ESAT, Leuven)

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Construction Phase

• MIMORE
• A microcomparative morphosyntactic research
  tool
• Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut,
  Amsterdam)
• WAHSP
• A web application for historical sentiment
  mining in public
• media
• Toine Pieters (Huygens Instituut, Utrecht)
  

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Keynote speaker

• Jan Odijk
• Master in Slavonic languages and literature,
• General linguistics (Utrecht)
• PhD on Compositionality and syntactic
  generalizations (Tilburg)
• Rosetta (Philips, Eindhoven)
• Director Linguistic Resources (Lernout
  Hauspie, Ieper)
• Director Linguistic Resources (Nuance,
  Merelbeke)
• Professor in Language Speech Technology
  (Utrecht)
• Chairman of the Dutch-Flemish STEVIN program
  committee

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THANK YOU !
http//www.ccl.kuleuven.be/CLARIN