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The year 2012 has been a very successful year for CLARIN-NL. The CLARIN ERIC was established, and this fact was celebrated on several occasions (at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences; at the opening of the Academic Year 2012-2013 in Utrecht, and on a special occasion set-up by the European Committee). Many people active in CLARIN-NL have become active for the CLARIN ERIC, its governance organisation and committees.

Eind februari 2013 heb ik als projectsecretaris afscheid genomen van CLARIN-NL. Na ruim 2 jaar voor dit project te hebben gewerkt, merkte ik dat ik me graag weer bezig wilde houden met taalkundige onderwerpen. Daar heb ik nu een passende baan bij gevonden. Sinds 1 maart ben ik PhD-student in het project 'Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession', een samenwerking tussen UiL-OTS (Universiteit Utrecht) en LUCL (Universiteit Leiden).

On Friday 18 January 2013, the 23rd meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2013) took place in Enschede. The meeting was organized by the Human Media Interaction group of the University of Twente. After previous meetings in 1994 and 2001, this was the third time the CLIN meeting took place in Enschede. The location of the meeting was slightly unusual: Poppodium Atak in the Music Quarter of Enschede, with sessions taking place in (among other places) the concert halls, the café and the theatre hall.

Nijmegen, 29-30 November 2012

Sign language research is a small branch of linguistics. Wouldn’t it therefore be extra easy for people to share and exchange resources? That was the thought that drove a recent workshop on sign language lexicons. With the recent stream of efforts to build sign language corpora, the creation of sign lexicons has taken on new importance, functioning not just as (learner) dictionaries but also as the vocabularies used to gloss sign language texts.

On Wednesday January 23rd, the PoliMedia project team organized the symposium ‘Linking political debates and media’. In this symposium the project team presented their current research, and invited two speakers also doing computational research on political and news-media data.

On Wednesday November 28th, the PoliMedia project team gathered to discuss our progress and decide about the future directions of the project. Each partner presented their achievements of the past 6 months, which is the first half of the project-timespan. An interface designer was invited to lead discussion about the interface and to develop wireframes.

Since the beginning of this academic year the CLARIN-ERIC is officially established. The Board of Directors (BoD) already had some real and virtual meetings, but no general meeting was hold so far.

Op 24 en 25 augustus 2012 werd in Nijmegen aan de Radboud Universiteit de tweede editie van de internationale workshop EuroHCIR 2012 gehouden over de combinatie tussen mens-computer interactie en information retrieval. De vorige keer werd het in Sheffield, in het Verenigd Koninkrijk gehouden. Deze workshop volgde direct op het symposium "Information Interaction in Context" dat veel meer gebruikersgericht is dan het traditionele onderzoek en de ontwikkeling van zoektechnologie.

Van 6 t/m 8 september organiseerde het Humanities Research Institute van de Universiteit van Sheffield een Digital Humanities-congres.