CLASSLA-Express: a Train of CLARIN.SI Workshops on Language Resources and Tools with Easily Expanding Route

TL;DR

The paper presents the design and implementation of the CLASSLA-Express workshop series, aimed at disseminating South Slavic linguistic resources and tools through easily expandable, geographically targeted workshops.

Contribution

It introduces an innovative, scalable workshop model for sharing linguistic resources and infrastructure across multiple countries, enhancing accessibility and engagement.

Findings

Six workshops conducted in five countries

Successful dissemination of South Slavic language corpora

Framework for easy expansion to new venues

Abstract

This paper introduces the CLASSLA-Express workshop series as an innovative approach to disseminating linguistic resources and infrastructure provided by the CLASSLA Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages and the Slovenian CLARIN.SI infrastructure. The workshop series employs two key strategies: (1) conducting workshops directly in countries with interested audiences, and (2) designing the series for easy expansion to new venues. The first iteration of the CLASSLA-Express workshop series encompasses 6 workshops in 5 countries. Its goal is to share knowledge on the use of corpus querying tools, as well as the recently-released CLASSLA-web corpora - the largest general corpora for South Slavic languages. In the paper, we present the design of the workshop series, its current scope and the effortless extensions of the workshop to new venues that are already in sight.