[CLASSLA] CLASSLA-Express is back!

[Taja Kuzman]

CLASSLA Mailing List

**Dear all,

We are excited to announce the next iteration of CLASSLA-Express 
workshops, a hands-on series designed to explore the use of CLASSLA-web 
corpora in linguistic research!

After a successful 2024 edition, which included workshops in 8 cities 
across 5 countries (see the reports here 
<https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/#April_to_November_2024_CLASSLA-Express_Workshops_on_using_CLARINSI_corpora_in_language_research>), 
this year, the CLASSLA-Express route has expanded to include an 
𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟯 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: 
Klagenfurt and Graz in Austria, and Bled in Slovenia. In addition, the 
CLASSLA-Express series will visit Zagreb and Rijeka in Croatia again, 
now with a new focus. The workshops will continue to explore 
corpus-linguistic research using CLASSLA-web corpora for South Slavic 
languages, while also testing how large language models (LLMs) perform 
linguistic tasks, 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀.

This years' iteration offers two workshop formats:
• 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗟𝗔-𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝟭.𝟬 that provides an introduction to 
corpus-linguistic research methods, exploring word meanings, 
collocations, and lexico-grammatical patterns in different text types.
• 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗟𝗔-𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝟮.𝟬 that focuses on the application of 
LLMs to linguistic tasks, comparing AI-based approaches with traditional 
corpus methods and contributing to the development of a framework for 
combining the two toolsets.

Workshops are free of charge and open to university students, linguists, 
lexicographers, language teachers, digital humanities scholars, and others.

Key dates for CLASSLA-Express workshops in 2025:
• 𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – CLASSLA-Express 1.0 in 𝗞𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗳𝘂𝗿𝘁, 
𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 (University of Klagenfurt). - 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻!
• 𝟭𝟭 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – CLASSLA-Express 2.0 in 𝗭𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗯, 
𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮, as part of HDPL 2025 (Faculty of Humanities and Social 
Sciences, University of Zagreb).
• 𝟭𝟬 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – CLASSLA-Express 1.0 in 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘇, 
𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮 (Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Graz).
• 𝟱 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – CLASSLA-Express 2.0 in 𝗥𝗶𝗷𝗲𝗸𝗮, 
𝗖𝗿𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮, as part of CLARC 2025 (Faculty of Humanities and Social 
Sciences, University of Rijeka).
• 𝟭𝟳 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 – CLASSLA-Express 2.0 in 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝗱, 
𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮, as part of the eLex 2025 conference (Rikli Balance Hotel).

For details and registration, visit the CLASSLA-Express 
website:https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/
We hope to see you at one of the workshops!

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

CLASSLA: The Knowledge Centre for South Slavic Languages 
<https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/>

CLARIN.SI <http://clarin.si/>

Jožef Stefan Institute

Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana
Slovenia

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