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Take-home messages from 3 birthday

parties and the Pope’s visit to the US

Steven [email protected]

16 October 2015

CLARIN Annual Conference, Wrocław

CLARIN Annual Conference, 16 October 2015

Overview

A glimpse of Paradise

Pope Francis in the US

What is your cod

You are not alone

Concluding remarks

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CLARIN’s 10th Anniversary:

on our way to Paradise

November 2005: submission of 3 proposals to the ESFRI

Research Infrastructures Roadmap: EARL (Peter

Wittenburg), LangWeb (SK) and TELRI (Tamas Varadi)

February 2006: ESFRI recommends us to join forces

March 2006: First presentation of joint CLARIN proposal to

ESFRI WG on Cultural Heritage

September 2006: CLARIN appears on the First ESFRI

Roadmap as one out of (then 6) HSS Research

Infrastructures

2007: Application for CLARIN Preparatory Phase project

2008-2011: CLARIN Preparatory Phase

February 2012: CLARIN ERIC established

Now: (almost) 10th Anniversary3


Celebrating the 5th anniversary

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Heading for Paradise

On the following slides:

Possible use cases of digital methods or:

Glimpses of the CLARIN Paradise

Copied from:

Meaning and perspectives in the digital humanities

A White Paper for the establishment of a Center for

Humanities and Technology (in the Netherlands)

Sally Wyatt (KNAW) and David Millen (IBM) (Eds.), 2014

The scope of the document is humanities in general, but

many of the examples contain a clear language component

All examples are humanities questions where people felt

that digital methods would be needed to answer them

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1: Art History

Understanding the perceptions of artwork, multi-

perspective views of visual media, associations in

different contexts:

Can we detect meaningful relationships between

artworks when we do not understand the semantic

labels (due to language differences), or with

insufficient clues (untitled works)?

Can we search for artworks on the basis of pattern

recognition of e.g. color, composition, texture,

rhythm?

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2: Emotional Communities

Understanding emotional concepts, behaviour, and

embodied emotions in visual depictions,

vocabularies and narrative structures

How to model and represent emotion detection,

transmission interpretation (e.g. over time)?

How to understand the expression,

conceptualization and transmission of feelings by

groups/nations or location?

What is the drive for the emotional economy for user

perception?

How do ‘emotional communities’ form specific

perspectives on concepts?7Steven Krauwer


3: Historical sites, bodies &

objects Understanding the shift in perspectives on heritage

(narratives), e.g. from national to transnational, from

European to global

How can we understand the epistemic communities that

maintain heritage sites?

Can we represent and analyze conflicting historical

narratives?

How can we help users with dynamically changing point

of views to understand and make use of different

narratives around heritage?

Can we trace how Europe disappeared from the national

historiography of empires and how it has no contours in

global heritage perspectives?8Steven Krauwer


4: History of literature, language,

law & politics

Understanding differences in perception, in culture,

in temporal periods

Can we (semi-)automatically generate book

narratives?

What do different linguistic expressions in books

tell us about different perceptions hereof?

What are the similarities and differences of

narrative structures in historical accounts, literary

texts, video games representing a book?

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5: History of Medicine

Understanding the impact of medical knowledge

transfer

Can we detect changes in the perception of medical

care in the exchanges of medical knowledge

between the Netherlands and the Far East?

What are the differences in the perceptions of

medical care for pharmacists, midwives by different

social groups of patients?

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6: Creative Cities

Understanding the cultural success of cities in

terms of factors, dependencies, causality and

perspectives

What are the factors that make a city a creative

center of innovation?

Where are creative entrepreneurs located?

How do they communicate, interact, collaborate,

and compete?

How do they turn the city into a magnet for other

innovators?

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7: History of Science

Understanding the cultural differences in the

perceptions of the universe

How is the universe perceived in various cultures?

Can we trace signs of heliocentrism before

Copernicus?

Is there an influence of Copernicus’s writings on

heliocentric views in other cultures?

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To put them all in one picture:

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The roles of language and

corresponding audiences

Carrier of cultural content: cultural heritage

Record of the past: history

Main communication instrument within and across societies:

sociology, anthropology

Preserving and disseminating our knowledge: all disciplines

Instrument to formulate rules for society: law, theology

Carrier of information: media studies, journalism

Means of human expression: literary studies, psychology

Focus of cognitive processes: brain studies, psychology

Component of national or cultural identity: political sciences

Object of study: linguistics

Object of computer processing: language and speech

technology


Pope Francis in the US

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Pope Francis in the US or:

What you can do with CLARIN

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Humanities scholars building their

Vatican (i.e. browsing the VLO)

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The message from CLARIN’s

Anniversary

We are offering access to more and more services and

tools, creating an ever expanding paradise of data and

services …

… but there is a wide gap to be bridged between what we

offer and the users’ research problems.

Users need to be able to decompose their big research

questions into smaller questions that CLARIN and other

sources can help them solve.

Needed:

Guidance

Training

Identification of bits and pieces that are still missing

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NordForsk’s 10th Anniversary:

What is your cod?

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NordForsk and NorMER

NordForsk is an organisation that facilitates and provides

funding for Nordic research cooperation and research

infrastructure (www.nordforsk.org). They celebrated their

10th Anniversary last week

NorMER (Nordic Centre for Research on Marine

Ecosystems and Resources under Climate Change,

www.normer.uio.no), funded by NordForsk. Goals:

Perform research

Create training environment for young researchers

Develop team of outstanding global quality

Link to industry and policy managers

Update policies to sustain healthy fisheries

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http://www.normer.uio.no/


NorMER

“It will achieve this through a unique program of primary

research, implemented by PhDs and Postdocs in a system

of collaborative projects, with a focus on the Atlantic cod

(Gadus morhua). Though our Nordic focus is on cod, this

research is intended to be a platform to extend this

knowledge to other marine systems.”

The basic idea: breeding house for young researchers in a

broad domain (marine ecosystems and resources), but

starting from a focus on a specific element.

Would such an idea work for CLARIN?

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A CLARIN breeding house for

young researchers

Transposing it to CLARIN:

“It will achieve this through a unique program of primary

research, implemented by PhDs and Postdocs in a system

of collaborative projects, with a focus on ????). Though our

focus is on ????, this research is intended to be a platform

to extend this knowledge to other HSS disciplines.”

This goes beyond what K- and L-centres would do, as this

would require special funding

The big question: what would our cod be?

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Examples of cod candidates

Very generic: “language” or “machine learning”

Specific tools: “named entity recognizers” or “parsers”

Resource types: “newspapers” or “spoken dialogues”

Data relations: “linked open data”

Societal problems: “language barriers” or “refugees”

Or:

Combinations: “investigate how the refugees problem is

discussed in the newspapers”

Or, opportunistically:

Topics for which we see funding opportunities or

partnerships with other players

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Take home message from the

NordForsk Anniversary:

Adoption of digital methods by humanities scholars will not

happen automatically. Training and education efforts are

necessary, both at the national and at the international

level. CLARIN has the KSI to address this.

Is there place for initiatives similar to NorMER to be taken

by CLARIN, possibly together with other partners, and do

we see funding opportunities?

If so, what would be ‘our’ cod?

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ELRA’s 20th Anniversary:

You’re not alone!

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ELRA’s 20th Anniversary:

You’re not alone!

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Issues raised at ELRA’s birthday

party in Dubrovnik this week

How to cite resources

How to ensure recognition of the creation of language

resources as an academic activity

How to ensure data quality

How to ensure research integrity

How to support replicability of results

How to ensure open access to data

How to deal with less resourced languages

How to secure language technology support from the EC

… and many more

Don’t they sound VERY familiar?

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What’s the point?

We are a small community

We are surrounded by groups and initiatives doing similar

or related things, often from different perspectives and with

different goals, such as ELRA, META, DARIAH, other

humanities infrastructures

In addition we see initiatives that are complementary to

ours (e-infrastructures, social sciences infrastructures)

Many of them have problems that are similar to ours

What’s the message from this anniversary?

Don’t see the others as enemies or competitors, but as

potential allies

Try to join forces wherever we see a potential benefit

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Words of thank

To the developers of the CLARIN concept: Tamas Varadi,

and especially Peter Wittenburg as the spiritual father of the

CLARIN infrastructure concept

To the pioneers of the CLARIN Preparatory Phase project

To the EC and Dutch Ministry of Research for their

assistance in making CLARIN happen

To …

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Words of special thank to

Bente Maegaard

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Words of thank

To the developers of the CLARIN concept: Tamas Varadi,

and Peter Wittenburg as the spiritual father

To the pioneers of the CLARIN Preparatory Phase project

To the EC and Dutch ministry of Research for their

assistance in making CLARIN happen

To Bente Maegaard as the key factor in shaping CLARIN

ERIC and its gradual expansion

To my colleagues from the Board of Directors and the

CLARIN Office

To all of you and to those who cannot attend this meeting

for making CLARIN move forward

To Franciska de Jong for having the courage to take on this

job: the most exciting (and complex) job I’ve ever had31


Concluding remarks

It really pays off to go to birthday parties!

THANKS to all for 10 inspiring years in CLARIN

(and don’t worry - this isn’t really a farewell, as I’ll still stick

around for a while, whether you like it or not)

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