Encompassing a spectrum of LT users in the CLARIN-DK Infrastructure
Lina Henriksen, Dorte Haltrup Hansen, Bente Mægaard, Bolette Sandford Pedersen, Claus Povlsen · 2014
CLARIN-DK is a platform with language resources constituting the Danish part of the European infrastructure CLARIN ERIC.Unlike some other language based infrastructures CLARIN-DK is not solely a repository for upload and storage of data, but also a platform of web services permitting the user to process data in various ways.This involves considerable complications in relation to workflow requirements.The CLARIN-DK interface must guide the user to perform the necessary steps of a workflow; even when the user is inexperienced and perhaps has an unclear conception of the requested results.This paper describes a user driven approach to creating a user interface specification for CLARIN-DK.We indicate how different user profiles determined different crucial interface design options.We also describe some use cases established in order to give illustrative examples of how the platform may facilitate research.