Vari@R
Vari@R - Variations and Varieties of Romance Languages
The project VARI@R - Variations and Varieties of Romance Languages - will come into effect in March 2025, with the aim of continuing to pursue the goal of contributing to the description and analysis of variable phenomena in Romance languages. This goal has mobilized several research projects from the Predicar Project (Formation and expression of complex predicates and predications, in force since 2002), promoted scientific events such as colloquia and seminars from the Franco-Brazilian project VariaR - Variation in Romance Languages - from 2019 to early 2025, has driven interdisciplinary actions and interactions in the planning and construction of the Brazilian project InCorpora (Digital portal of states of affairs in Portuguese and Romance languages to vary and teach, with financial support from CNPq and FAPERJ since 2022) and now directs the project Vari@R - Variations and Varieties of Romance Languages. This project relies on the strong articulation that, in this process, was established especially between the areas of (Socio)Linguistics and Computer Science, among some linguists who interacted in opportunities created by activities or demands conceived in these projects and researchers from the GRECO Research Group (Knowledge Engineering Group) of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian project Vari@R, under the coordination of Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira (UFRJ), is structured with a view to the era of transdisciplinary dialogues, of open and citizen science and education, and of accessibility to linguistic reality made possible through digital repositories of datasets and information. It maintains an interest in promoting articulation of people from different institutions and dialogues between areas of knowledge: particularly (Socio)Linguistics, Computer Science, and Information Science. It is linked to the implementation of the Humanities network, coordinated by Marcia Machado Vieira (UFRJ), in the GO FAIR BR Initiative, coordinated in Brazil by Dr. Luana Salles (UFRJ, IBICT) and internationally by Dr. Maria Luiza Machado Campos (UFRJ). It is related to spaces of (inter)actions promoted by other projects (research and extension): Predicar, HDLinguagens (Digital Humanities and Languages), ReHDLinguísticas (Network of Resources in Digital Humanities and Linguistics), Brazilian Linguistic Diversity Platform (https://www.museudalinguaportuguesa.org.br/projeto-plataforma-diversidade-linguistica-brasileira/).
This website, like the French-Brazilian project VariaR´s one, was conceived and created by students from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. This one was created by students Nikolas de Azevedo Miguez (UFRJ, Institute of Computing) and Pedro Giovani Duarte Poppolino (UFRJ, Institute of Computing, CNPq) . This time, we also had the collaboration of Morgana Kropf (graduated in Letters/Linguistics from UFRJ) in the configuration of the visual identity of this website.
Research Areas
Observational and experimental research, Variation description, Linguistic data collections, Linguistic analysis, Comparison of Romance language varieties, Theoretical and methodological articulations, Social, functional and cognitive approaches, Grammatical representation, Information system, Digital repository, Conceptual modeling, Data and information management, FAIR principles, Data interoperability
Brief history
The project Vari@R – Variations and Varieties of Romance Languages – is being structured at the time (in early 2025) when access to content on the website https://variar.wixsite.com/variar and associated channels, which were implemented and configured by the Brazilian team of professor and students at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, is unilaterally closed.
Under the leadership of Marcia dos Santos Machado Vieira, this new project focuses on research into variations and varieties of Romance languages. Unlike the previous one, it is not based on organizing scientific events (colloquia and seminars). Although this new project also plans to deal with organizing or participating in events, the Vari@R project focuses on something else. It focuses on scientific research, planning, creating and comparing collections of Romance language data, and extending the resulting content to society in general. It focuses on bringing together people (from various areas of knowledge, from different theoretical schools based on corpora, and from different institutions) to achieve one of these goals or related demands, and on producing resources (in physical or digital media) for society.