Principal investigator (ÚFAL): 
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Grant id: 
FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 238405
Duration: 
2009-2013

CLARA

Common Language Resources and their Applications - a Marie Curie ITN

CLARA trains a new generation of researchers who will be able to cooperate across national boundaries on the establishment of a common language resources infrastructure and its exploitation for the construction of the next generation of language models with wide theoretical and applied significance. The scientific objectives of the CLARA research context are twofold:

  1. to develop the next generation of data-intensive language models and applications by integrating approaches across language and country boundaries;
  2. to contribute to the establishment of a pan-European infrastructure for language resources.

CLARA supplements basic research competencies in the language and text sciences with specialized knowledge and skills in linguistics, computer science, knowledge engineering, databases, statistical processing and language and speech applications. Participation in advanced research at leading universities is complemented with additional training at industrial partners contributing to careers in industry.

CLARA runs over four years from December 1, 2009. The project is coordinated by Koenraad De Smedt at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Project web page:  http://clara.b.uib.no/

Consortium

CLARA is a consortium of 9 partners hosting researchers:

  1. Universitetet i Bergen (coordinator)
  2. Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
  3. Tilde
  4. Københavns Universitet
  5. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  6. Helsingin Yliopisto
  7. Univerzita Karlova v Praze
  8. Norges Handelshøyskole (Norwegian School of Economics)
  9. Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik

and associate partners contributing to training activities:

  1. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics
  2. TEMIS Deutschland
  3. Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
  4. University of Zagreb
  5. Uni Research (formerly Unifob)
  6. Lexical Computing
  7. Universität Wien
  8. Ilisimatusarfik - University of Greenland
  9. Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
  10. Universität des Saarlandes
  11. Infomedia
  12. RWTH Aachen University