CLARIN Café - SSH Research with CLARIN K-Centres: Expertise for Multimodal Data, Large Language Models and Discourse Analysis

On 9 December, CLARIN ERIC organized  virtual CLARIN Café - SSH Research with CLARIN K-Centres: Expertise for Multimodal Data, Large Language Models and Discourse Analysis. The aim of this event was to introduce researchers in humanities and social sciences to the role of the CLARIN knowledge centres (CLARIN K-Centres) in research and present concrete use cases. In particular, the Café focussed on three K-Centres and corresponding research areas - multimodal data, large language models (LLMs) and multilingual comparative discourse analysis.

Johan Frid from the Lund University explained several uses cases of multimodal data for multimodal production and perception of prosodic prominence. He also introduced to the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Multimodal and Sensor-based Data (CLARIN-MULTISENS).

Ewa Rudnicka from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology presented several creative and analytical use cases of LLMs. She also introduced to the CLARIN K-centre for Large Language Models in the Social Sciences and Humanities (LLMs4SSH), where CLARIN-LV is also a member.

Finally, Philipp Dreesen from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences introduced use cases how to do comparative discourse studies using corpus linguistics and CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Applied Comparative Discourse Analysis (CLARIN-APPLIED). More information about this event, speakers and slides is available from the website of this café.

The CLARIN Café is an informal and interactive space for discussion where researchers, lecturers, students and experts can meet to share experiences and insights that have a potential relevance for the activities and developments within the context of the CLARIN universe. The topics of the CLARIN Cafés hosted so far are listed at CLARIN Café website, while information about next events is published in the CLARIN news section and CLARIN Newsflash.