2025 IEEE CH – CLARIN and Cyber Humanities: synergies for innovation in humanities research

The Cyber Humanities emphasize the integration of digital technologies in research in the humanities and a critical reflection on how technologies— emerging or pervasive ones like e.g., AI, Linked Open Data — and digital infrastructures reshape knowledge production and interpretation in the humanities. CLARIN provides a well-established and interoperable infrastructure offering access to a wide range of language resources and tools, supporting scholars in performing advanced, data-driven investigations across linguistic, historical, and cultural domains.

The collaboration between CLARIN and Cyber Humanities exemplifies how the interaction between infrastructure providers and the scholarly community can generate shared methodologies and cross-disciplinary practices for accessing and interpreting complex cultural data. This workshop explores the intersections between CLARIN and the Cyber Humanities, focusing on how their synergies can foster innovation in humanities research.

We welcome submissions that present case studies and initiatives that exemplify how CLARIN services, tools and resources —or those relevant to CLARIN —can be leveraged within Cyber Humanities. We also encourage papers discussing how the CLARIN infrastructure can support innovation and new methodological approaches in the humanities. The goal is to stimulate dialogue across disciplines and communities towards developing the next generation of IR services

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

Topic of Interest

› CLARIN data, tools and services and their application in humanities research
› Linked Open Data and interoperability of linguistic and textual resources
› Services for the acquisition of printed and handwritten text from digital images
› CLARIN-related knowledge-sharing and training initiatives as vehicles for cross-disciplinary collaboration

› Machine to machine workflows for processing language and complex cultural data
› Infrastructures and tools for annotation, indexing and search (with or without AI)
› Large Language Models and research infrastructures
› Best practices and desiderata for the cross-disciplinary integration and exploitation of diverse and innovative (language) technology

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: May 5, 2025
Authors’ notification: May 20, 2025
Camera-ready submission: May 28, 2025
Registration deadline (authors): May 30, 2025
Workshop dates: September 8–10, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CH conference are applicable to CLARIN workshop. Please visit the instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via Easychair, please make sure that the workshop’s track WS-CLARIN is selected.

Workshop Committees

Program Chairs

Monica Monachini, (Italy)
Valeria Quochi, (Italy)
Federico Boschetti , (Italy)

Technical Program Committee

Marina Buzzoni (Italy)
Riccardo Del Gratta (Italy)
Tanjia Wissik (Austria)
Angelo Mario Del Grosso (Italy)
Francesca Frontini (Italy)
Maria Gavriilidou (Greece)
Fahad Khan (Italy)
Costanza Navarretta (Denmark)
Petya Osenova (Bulgaria)

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