Project, mission and values

Who are we?

CLARIN-PL is a Polish scientific consortium. We create a scientific and technological infrastructure providing language resources and electronic tools for automatic natural language processing.

We collaborate with researchers across all scientific disciplines, with a particular focus on the humanities and social sciences. Our infrastructure is unique on a global scale, as it was specifically designed with the Polish language in mind - we provide solutions that deliver precise results for texts written in Polish.

CLARIN-PL is part of the European Research Infrastructure CLARIN ERIC (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium), established in 2012. Its goal is to provide a broad audience (especially researchers, lecturers, and students) with specialised data sets, knowledge, and technical resources required for conducting research on large text collections. It is a distributed infrastructure which means that its centres are spread across various locations, primarily in Europe but also in the USA and South Africa.
Learn more about CLARIN ERIC

Our Mission and Values

The web services developed within the CLARIN-PL infrastructure are available under an open licence for all researchers and students. These solutions are primarily intended for the humanities and social sciences, though they can be applied in any research area. Our main speciality is the Polish language, but we are also open to international and multilingual projects. CLARIN provides universal tools for natural language analysis, as well as language resources and source materials.

Additionally, through CLARIN-PL-Biz , we collaborate on commercial terms with companies and other organisations interested in leveraging language technologies.

The Mission statement of the CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre see document

1.

Innovation

We work daily to ensure that our products not only meet current standards but also set new quality benchmarks. We are open to experiments as long as they lead to valuable results.

2.

Professionalism

Collaboration with us is based on clearly defined rules. Our team consists of members from academic and business backgrounds who can meet the demands of various types of projects.

3.

Equal Opportunity

Regardless of budget, academic degree, or research team size, everyone is treated equally and can expect appropriate support. Our support for academic communities is entirely free of charge, while business collaboration is conducted on commercial terms.

4.

Development

Building language technologies from scratch requires significant financial and time investment. CLARIN-PL allows users to build upon existing solutions, helping to develop the infrastructure collaboratively and enhance the long-term competitiveness of Polish companies in both local and global markets.

5.

Human Relationships

People are the foundation of CLARIN-PL. Here, you can count on knowledge sharing, experience exchange, and long-term partnerships.

What they say about us

" Współpracujemy z zespołem CLARIN od 2021 roku w ramach projektu naukowego Narodowego Centrum Nauki OPUS „COV-WORK: Świadomość społeczno-ekonomiczna, doświadczenia pracy i strategie radzenia sobie Polaków w kontekście kryzysu post-pandemicznego.” Narzędzia CLARIN-PL umożliwiają nam zbieranie korpusu danych w pakiecie pracy poświęconym medialnemu obrazowi pandemii w sferze pracy. Jesteśmy przekonani, że nasza współpraca to doskonały przykład badań interdyscyplinarnych, o bardzo dużym potencjale poznawczym.

dr hab. Adam Mrozowicki

Chair of the Discipline Council, Faculty of Social Sciences

University of Wrocław, Faculty of Social Sciences

Meet the researchers and industry experts who have chosen to work with us:

dr Beata Duda i dr Ewa Fiek o badaniu opinii Polaków na temat Covid-19

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dr. hab. Agnieszka Hess o tworzeniu i przeprowadzaniu badań socjologicznych na przykładzie analizy d...

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NETGURU o Automatycznym wykrywaniu klauzul abuzywnych w umowach prawnych

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dr. inż. Dominika Hadro o analizie wydźwięku tekstów finansowych

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Our Team

CLARIN-PL

dr inż. hab. Maciej Piasecki, prof. PWr

Koordynator polskiej części infrastruktury, CLARIN-PL, kierownik projektu po stronie Lidera Projektu - Politechniki Wrocławskiej

maciej.piasecki@pwr.edu.pl

dr hab. Maciej Ogrodniczuk, prof. IPI PAN

Koordynator po stronie Instytutu Podstaw Informatyki PAN

dr hab. Piotr Pęzik, prof. UŁ

Koordynator po stronie Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, odpowiedzialny za rozwój zasobów mowy

dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Szklanny, prof. PJATK

Koordynator po stronie Polsko-Japońskiej Akademii Technik Komputerowych, odpowiedzialny za rozwój narzędzi mowy

prof. Roman Roszko

Koordynator po stronie Instytutu Slawistyki PAN, odpowiedzialny za rozwój korpusów języków słowiańskich innych niż polski

Structure

CLARIN-PL and CLARIN ERIC

CLARIN-PL consists of six Polish scientific units that produce electronic language resources and tools for working with extensive text collections. These include:

Politechnika Wrocławska – lider projektu

Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN

Uniwersytet Łódzki

Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Instytut Slawistyki PAN

Polsko-Japońska Akademia Technik Komputerowych

CLARIN ERIC is a pan-European consortium that provides legal status to infrastructures from member countries. It includes representatives from the ministries of the consortium countries.

CLARIN members independently decide on their contributions to the development and expansion of the infrastructure.

However, they are required to implement accepted standards ensuring:

Interoperability

mutual compatibility of the tools and resources that make up CLARIN

Availability

resulting from publicly accessible services

Sustainability

CLARIN is an infrastructure, not a time-limited project

CLARIN Centres – Knowledge Nodes

The core units forming the CLARIN structure are centres that provide clearly defined services:

Type B Centre – this is the primary infrastructure node maintaining language processing services, computing facilities, and data repositories integrated with the European CLARIN infrastructure;
Type C Centre – this type of institution collaborates with the infrastructure by providing specific metadata (e.g., related to specialised language resources);
Type K Centre – Knowledge Sharing Centres are responsible for disseminating knowledge about the infrastructure projects: they form a network of specialist teams supporting specific research projects. At Type K centres, users can report infrastructure issues, receive expert help, or ask questions about using the infrastructure.

Polish CLARIN Node

The Language Technology Centre (Polish CLARIN node) operates at Wrocław University of Science and Technology. It provides registered users with free access to language tools and resources available both in Poland and at CLARIN centres in other member countries.
The primary function of the Centre is to maintain and provide access to software tools, data resources, and machines with adequate computational power. These elements form the essential infrastructure necessary for language processing. They are provided and developed by all units within the CLARIN-PL consortium.

CLARIN centre certification follows strictly defined guidelines and standards.
Our centre holds the following statuses:

Type B Centre

We have the technical infrastructure ensuring the operation of text processing services.

CLARIN-PL B Centre Certificate Core Trust Seal Certificate for our D-space repository

Type K Centre – PolLinguaTec

We provide substantive support and technical assistance from highly qualified specialists.

PolLinguaTec – CLARIN K Centre Certificate Learn more

Type K Center – LLMs4SSH

We offer advice on the application of LLMs in language data processing and their adaptation to the needs of SS&H researchers and tasks.

LLMs4SSH – CLARIN K Centre Certificate Learn more

Additionally, we are the only centre within the entire CLARIN ERIC consortium that has initiated collaboration with companies investing in artificial intelligence.

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Advisory Council

Council Members:

Following the recommendation of the Ministry of Education and Science, the CLARIN-PL Advisory Council serves as a consultative body. Its role is to suggest new research directions for CLARIN-PL and to assess the current state of the infrastructure from the perspective of its applications in the humanities and social sciences.

dr Grzegorz Bryda (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
prof. dr hab. Marek Jeziński (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika)
prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Gruszczyński (Uniwersytet SWPS; Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN)
dr hab. Katarzyna Klessa (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza)
prof. dr hab. Joanna Kurczewska (Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN)
dr hab. Katarzyna Materska, prof. UŚ (Uniwersytet Śląski)
dr hab. Marta Nowosad-Bakalarczyk (Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej)
dr hab. Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, prof. UW (Instytut Psychologii PAN)
dr hab. Marek Troszyński, prof. IBL PAN (Instytut Badań Literackich PAN)
dr hab. Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, prof. UAM (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza)
prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Wolny-Zmorzyński (Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Funding

The CLARIN project was launched with financial support from the European Commission, and it is currently fully funded by the member countries of the consortium. In Poland, the administrative body financing the activities of the CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre is the Ministry of Education and Science.

CLARIN-PL

The project is financed under the Programme "Inteligentny Rozwój 2014-2020, Priorytet IV : Zwiększenie potencjału naukowo-badawczego, Działanie 4.2": Development of Modern Research Infrastructure in the Science Sector, project number POIR.04.02.00-00C002/19, "CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technological Infrastructure". The funding aims to provide Polish academic and business communities with world-class tools, resources, and natural language processing services.

Non-commercial research activities of CLARIN-PL are financed as part of the 'Support for the participation of Polish research teams in international research infrastructure projects' programme funded by the Ministry of Education and Science.