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CLARIN Annual Conference 2024: report from the CLARIAH-VL representatives

The CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 was held in Barcelona from October 15 to 17 and brought together over 200 in-person attendees and nearly 100 virtual participants, establishing it as a central forum for advancing language technology and resource sharing across Europe. Chaired by Vincent Vandeghinste, coordinator of CLARIN-Belgium, the conference explored both theoretical and applied aspects of linguistic resource management and computational processing.

One of the keynote speakers was Maite Melero from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, whose talk, “The Future of Language (and Cultural) Diversity in the Age of AI,” addressed AI’s complex impact on linguistic diversity. Melero discussed AI’s dual potential: while it can support endangered languages, it also risks reinforcing the dominance of major languages and perpetuating biases. Her presentation highlighted the necessity for careful AI integration in multilingual contexts, with researchers and policymakers playing a crucial role in guiding AI toward linguistic inclusion.

Steven Bird from Charles Darwin University provided a complementary perspective in his address, “Making it Meaningful.” Drawing on his extensive work with under-resourced languages, Bird stressed the importance of community-driven approaches to linguistic preservation, especially through tools that enable local communities to document endangered languages. He argued that such technology should empower communities to preserve their linguistic heritage actively.

The conference program featured more than 20 oral presentations and multiple poster sessions, fostering lively discussions on the latest research and methodologies in the field.

The conference program included over 20 oral presentations and several poster sessions, encouraging engagement with recent research and methodologies in the field. The CLARIAH-VL delegation included Els Lefever, Belgium’s representative in CLARIN’s User Involvement Committee, Jonas Doumen, who gave a first demo of TextLens and Tess Dejaeghere, a PhD researcher at Ghent CDH. Tess contributed to both the main conference with an oral presentation and to the PhD session with a poster.

Further details on the conference program, presentations, and proceedings can be found on the official CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 page.


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Vincent Vandeghinste (November 25, 2024). CLARIN Annual Conference 2024: report from the CLARIAH-VL representatives. CLARIAH-VL. Retrieved February 12, 2026 from https://doi.org/10.58079/12uxn


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