Tour de CLARIN Volume Four

Since 2016, the Tour de CLARIN initiative has been periodically highlighting prominent user involvement activities in the CLARIN network in order to increase the visibility of its members, reveal the richness of the CLARIN landscape, and display the full range of activities that show what CLARIN has to offer to researchers, teachers, students, professionals, and the general public interested in using and processing language data in various forms. Originally only focussing on CLARIN consortia, this initiative was expanded twice, first in 2019 to also feature the work of CLARIN Knowledge Centres (or K-centres), which offer knowledge and expertise in specific areas to researchers, educators, and developers alike, and second in 2021 to feature Service Providing Centres (or B-centres), which serve as the technical backbone of the CLARIN infrastructure. For almost five years, Tour de CLARIN has been one of the flagship outreach initiatives, thus far released in the form of three printed volumes. The fourth volume is organized in two parts. In Part 1, we present CLARIN Portugal in five chapters: an introduction to the consortium, its members, and their work; a description of one of their key resources; the presentation of an outstanding tool; an account of a successful event for the researchers and students in their network; and an interview with a renowned researcher from the Digital Humanities or Social Sciences who has successfully used the consortium’s infrastructure in their work. In Part 2, we present the work of six K-centres and two B-centres that have been visited since the publication of the second volume in November 2020: the K-centre for morphologically rich languages SAFMORIL, the French CORLI K-centre, the K-centre for South Slavic languages CLASSLA, the NLP:EL K-centre for Greek, the Austrian B-centre ARCHE, and the CLARIN-PL B-centre. Each centre is presented in two chapters: a presentation of what the centre offers to researchers and an interview with a renowned researcher who has benefited from the collaboration with the centre. The volume would not have been possible without the contributions and dedication of the CLARIN national coordinators and user involvement coordinators, and centre representatives: Antonio Branco, João Silva, Erik Axelson, Eva Soroli, Nikola Ljubešić, Maria Gavriilidou, Martina Trognitz, and Jan Wieczorek. We would also like to thank all the researchers who have kindly agreed to be interviewed for their time and invaluable insights: Pilar Barbosa, Jack Rueter, Thomas Gaillat, Zrinka Kolaković, Titika Dimitroulia, Peter Andorfer, Stephan Kurz, Martin Anton Müller, and Olga Czeranowska