The CLARIN project funded by the “ICT-Research Infrastructures” Unit is a largescale European collaborative effort to create, coordinate and make language resources and technology available and readily usable for Language & SSH (Social Sciences & Humanities) researchers. It aims at offering scholars the tools to allow computer-aided language processing, addressing one or more of the multiple roles language plays in the Humanities and Social Sciences. To achieve these challenging goals CLARIN will be built on a number of key technologies coming from the major initiatives advancing the eScience paradigm:
– It builds on ideas launched by the Digital Library community to create Live Archives, and will further such initiatives;
– It incorporates, and contributes to, Semantic Web technology to overcome the structural and semantic encoding problems;
– It incorporates advanced multi-lingual language processing technology that supports cultural and linguistic integration.
The CLARIN initiative offers:
– Comprehensive service to the humanities disciplines with respect to language resources and technology.
– Technology overcoming the many boundaries currently fragmenting the resources and tools landscape as it is given by institutional, structural and semantic interoperability problems.
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CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure Network). Retrieved 01-06-09.From http://www.d4science.eu/clarin
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CLARIN. Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure. Retrieved 01-06-09. From http://www.clarin.eu/executive-summary
