The Scope of CLARIN: From Language as Linguistic Data to Language as Social and Cultural Data

Abstract

CLARIN is a European Research Infrastructure providing access to language resources and technologies for researchers in the humanities, the social sciences and beyond. It supports the study and use of language data in general and aims to increase the potential for comparative research of cultural and societal phenomena across the boundaries of languages. This paper outlines how the design and implementation of CLARIN are compliant with the emerging Open Science framework and supports findability, accessibility, interoperability and re-usability of data. The paper also explains how the CLARIN research infrastructure contributes to the potential of digital language resources for research of cultural and societal phenomena across the boundaries of languages and modalities, and in particular for comparative studies in a multidisciplinary context.