Dear colleague,

In 2007, we did a survey of language resources and tools for Swedish
(Elenius et al., 2008) as part of a planning grant for a national
venture to develop "An Infrastructure for Swedish Language
Technology", funded by the Swedish Research Council´s Committee for
Research Infrastructures 2007-2008.

This was pre-CLARIN*. We now have a new planning grant for SWE-CLARIN
("Towards a Swedish eScience infrastructure for the humanities and
social sciences"), funded by the Swedish Research Council´s Committee
for Research Infrastructures 2013. The infrastructure involves Swedish
membership and full participation in the CLARIN ERIC. As part of the
planning, we would like to update the survey. (If you participated in
the previous survey, you only need to add new resources.)

Apart from resources including Swedish, we would now also like to know
about resources covering Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani chib, Sami, and
Yiddish, which are official minority languages in Sweden, and sign
language.

The survey mainly covers the following resources and tools (for spoken
or written language):

- Language resources:
  - mono- or multilingual corpora
  - mono- or multilingual lexicons
  - terminology archives
  - grammars
- Standard resources (benchmarks) for evaluation
- Tools for processing language data
  - modules (e.g. part-of-speech taggers, parsers, grapheme-to-phoneme
    converters)
  - standards and tools for annotation
  - tools for searching and mining information from corpora

For the survey, please fill in a template file for each new resource
or tool, and attach it to your reply. The template and definition
references are available from http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~evafo/clarin/.  
The template is adapted from the META-SHARE metadata model.

We would also like to know, in your own words, whether you are
currently developing or planning to develop any new resources or
tools, and whether your resources or tools have been used in any
humanities and social sciences projects.

We would like your answer as soon as possible, but before February 25,
2013.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Eva Forsbom (evafo@stp.lingfil.uu.se)
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University
(on behalf of the planning group)

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*CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure)

Elenius,K., Forsbom, E., and Megyesi, B. 2008. Survey on Swedish
Language Resources. Report, February 2008. Dept. of Speech, Music
and Hearing, KTH and Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala
University
(http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/blark/swe-blark-survey-2008.pdf)