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7.5. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INNOVATION

HUNCLARIN (COMMON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE)
NETWORK RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE GROUP

Presentation of the RI group
HunCLARIN is the strategic research infrastructure network of leading Hungarian research and development knowl-
edge centres in language and speech technology. It aims to support research and innovation with language technology
tools and resources, especially in the field of humanities and social sciences.

The present nine members (1 coordinator and 8 partners) of HunCLARIN represents the forefront of Hungarian lan-
guage and speech processing. The language technology resources (e.g. mono- and multilingual and thematic corpora)
and tools (e.g. morphological analysers) developed by them enable, among other things, the content analysis of large
corpora (e.g. from a particular historical era) and the automatic coding of psychological meanings.

National coordinator of the RI group: Background information
HAS Research Institute for Linguistics The RIs comprising the HunCLARIN are coordinated by the
MTA Research Institute for Linguistics which was a founding
Contact: Tamás Váradi member of the CLARIN project and also played a key role in the
Email: varadi.tamas@nytud.mta.hu preparatory phase of the CLARIN. In addition to the coordinator,
Website: http://clarin.hu/ currently eight institutions/research groups are contributing to
HunCLARIN as partners, which are the most outstanding repre-
Partners: BME MOKK; BME TMIT; MTA SZTAKI; DE; SZTE; Morp- sentatives of computer language and speech processing in Hun-
hologic Ltd; MTA-PPKE ITK Hungarian Language Technology Research gary. The quality of participating RIs is clearly illustrated by such
Group; MTA TTK projects as the European Space Agency’s language-based psycho-
logical state monitoring programme or the grammar and spell
ESFRI connection: CLARIN-ERIC checker plugins developed for word processors.

Status of the RI group: under implementation Aim of the RI group
The main objective of HunCLARIN is to support scientific re-
search by making language technology and language resources eas-
ily accessible. This essentially requires a web interface and the
underlying technical infrastructure through which (registered re-
searchers) can easily access all RIs in the group and can compare
the tools with each other and CLARIN applications in other lan-
guages. This significantly simplifies the channelling of Hungarian
language and speech technology into high-profile European work,
since language technology tools and resources are already interop-
erable in (and between) a number of other European members of
CLARIN .

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