CLARIN:EL, Greek National Infrastructure for Language Resources & Technologies

Location: Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA RC; Athens, Greece

Date: 21st to 25th September 2026

Contact: Maria Gavriilidou ( maria@athenarc.gr )

Visit the dedicated Summer School website for more information.

CLARIN:EL is the National Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technologies in Greece. It is a unique RI whose mission is to collect, document, curate and distribute digital language resources, language technology tools and certified online language processing services for the support of researchers, academics, students, language professionals, citizen scientists and the general public, whose activities fall into the fields of Language studies, Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage, Language Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, etc. CLARIN:EL belongs to the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures of Greece and is the Greek national node of the CLARIN ERIC European Infrastructure. Access to the CLARIN:EL Infrastructure and services is open to the entire academic and research community, industry, but also to the public, in accordance with Open Data Principles and FAIR Data Principles, while existing data restrictions are respected.

What this TNA offers

This five-day training school focuses on Language Technology (LT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Digital Humanities. It is organized by the CLARIN:EL research infrastructure , hosted and represented by the Institute for Language and Speech Processing of Athena Research Center , and aims to introduce participants to digital methods for the humanities, and to provide knowledge and practical skills needed for the successful deployment of LT and AI resources and tools in the framework of Digital Humanities and specifically for the curation and processing of digital language data.

Services currently offered by the infrastructure

The CLARIN:EL Research Infrastructure offers access to more than 800 resources, i.e. digital language data of various language modalities (written, spoken, multimodal, sign, lexical/conceptual, etc.) and in various media (text, audio, video, etc.); language processing tools, web services and workflows (such as tokenizers, part of speech taggers, dependency parsers, terminology extractors, information extractors, named entity recognizers, etc.) for the processing of digital language resources (either available through CLARIN:EL or user-owned data); and the metadata of all resources made available through the Infrastructure. The usage of the infrastructure amounts to approx. 40,000 visits on a yearly basis.

CLARIN:EL ensures digital preservation of the hosted language data and processing services; it supports the creation, curation, sharing and reuse of Greek language resources, tools and services, but also multilingual resources and services containing Greek. The services are provided remotely (while some tools are also available for downloading and local use). The use of data and services is legally protected by appropriate licences ensuring lawful use; personal and sensitive data are also respected.

CLARIN:EL organises a variety of training and dissemination activities, including summer schools and focused seminars and workshops for university students and researchers, language professionals and other stakeholders (journalists, translators, historians, archaeologists, political and social scientists), promoting digital methodologies in their research and professional domains.

For more information on the Applications Process, please see the page for Summer Schools .