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We are excited to extend an invitation to you for a series of five workshops designed to demonstrate the practical applications of the CLASSLA web corpora https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12721in language research. The CLASSLA-Express workshops will take place from April to September 2024 in 4 countries and 5 cities: Croatia (Zagreb and Rijeka), Serbia (Belgrade), North Macedonia (Skopje) and Slovenia (Ljubljana). The workshops will provide hands-on experience in using the CLARIN.SI NoSketch Engine concordancer https://www.clarin.si/ske/#opento extract valuable insights on word meanings, usage, collocations, and grammatical patterns from Croatian https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_hr, Macedonian https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_mk, Serbian https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_srand Slovene https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_slcorpora. The workshops are free of charge.

The workshops are tailored for university students of South Slavic languages, linguists, lexicographers, language teachers, and digital humanities scholars.

The registration is already open for the workshops in Zagreb, Rijeka and Belgrade! We will make sure to let you know when the registrations in Skopje and Ljubljana open as well.

Here are the details of the workshops:

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19 April 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Zagreb, Croatia (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb). Registration is open – register by filling this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVE3VVmBYeQzgZjZO2Om1cRQPCPbPnENpvje7QgG0gd4Uedw/viewform. More information about the programme and location is available here. https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CLASSLA-Express_ZG.pdf

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26 April 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Rijeka, Croatia (Center for Language Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka). Registration is open – register by filling this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWoarqWZQuLTaDGfVQYHpeXfKSlMNb_d2a1NDsjsResbYGvg/viewform. More information about the programme and location is available here. https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CLASSLA-Express_RI.docx.pdf

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29 May 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Belgrade, Serbia (International conference Leksikografski susreti, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade). Registration is open – register by filling this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLpDUEmJnA43hEASWNWeuCe_3a01hPZLgA2tY0XhqklqyNfw/viewform. More information about the programme and location is available here. https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CLASSLA-Express_BG.docx.pdf

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4 June 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Skopje, North Macedonia (Blaže Koneski Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University). Registration is not open yet – we will let you know when it opens.

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18 September 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Language Technologies & Digital Humanities Conference 2024, University of Ljubljana). Registration is not open yet – we will let you know when it opens.

We warmly welcome you to join us at the nearest workshop location. For registration and further details, please visit https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/ https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/

We would also like to kindly ask you to spread the word among researchers, students and other interested colleagues.

Warm regards,

The CLASSLA-Express team: Ivana Filipović Petrović, Jelena Parizoska, Taja Kuzman and Nikola Ljubešić

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