CLARIN in Europe

CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is one of the Research Infrastructures that were selected for the European Research Infrastructures Roadmap by ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures. It is a distributed infrastructure based on language technology, with sites all over Europe. Typical sites are universities, research institutions, libraries and public archives. They all have in common that they provide access to digital language data collections, to digital tools to work with them, and to expertise for researchers to work with them.

The CLARIN Governance and Coordination body at the European level is CLARIN ERIC. An ERIC is a new type of international legal entity, established by the European Commission in 2009. Its members are governments or intergovernmental organisations.

It is important to note that CLARIN ERIC’s main task is to build, operate, coordinate and maintain the CLARIN infrastructure, and it neither conducts nor funds research activities.

CLARIN ERIC was set up with financial support from the European Commission through the CLARIN Preparatory Phase Project (2008–2011), but is now entirely funded by the participating countries.

The CLARIN consortium

Currently, CLARIN has the following members:

In the CLARIN consortium, there are also observers and third parties, such as countries outside the EU.

Publications about CLARIN (a selection)

Hinrichs, Erhard & Steven Krauwer (2014): “The CLARIN Research Infrastructure: Resources and Tool for E-Humanities”, Proceeding of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2014), sid. 1525–1531.

Lingua, temanummer om CLARIN, 2016, vol 178, sid. 1–126 [open access].