About The CLARIN Café on Bilingual and Multilingual Corpora took place on 29 April 2022. More than forty participants from various countries and organisations participated in the online event. The event was organised by Eva Soroli, Thomas Gaillat and Franck Cinato, and was divided into two parts: Part I: The CLARIN infrastructure and the new French CLARIN Knowledge Centre CORLI, dedicated to providing expertise in corpus linguistics and the languages spoken in France, and to support academic communities through actions towards FAIR and Open data Part II: Examples of parallel, comparable and dialectal corpora (new or already published), together with demonstrations on how to collect/build, annotate, explore, analyse and archive such corpora in an interoperable way. Part I: Introduction to CLARIN and Its Knowledge Centres After a short introduction to CLARIN and its services by Eva Soroli (CLARIN ambassador and associate professor at the University of Lille, France), the CORLI team coordinators presented the new French CLARIN Knowledge centre CORLI, and the new directions of the consortium. CORLI speakers were: Christophe PARISSE, INSERM researcher in cognitive and computer sciences working at the University of Nanterre (France) in the domain of corpus linguistics, language development, language change and language pathology; and Céline POUDAT, associate professor of linguistics and discourse analysis at the University of Cote d’Azur (France). They presented the CORLI consortium - a consortium involving members from more than 20 research labs and 15 universities, part of the French infrastructure Huma-Num and certified CLARIN K-centre since 2020 – and discussed its recent national developments and the progress made in building a sustainable national consortium similar to what European Research Infrastructure Consortia are doing on a European scale. The speakers described the development of the CORLI K-Centre, its scope and organization in working groups (e.g., the working group Multilingualism of the consortium), and its intuitive and interactive online platform that centralizes and offers both proactive and reactive services about available language resources, databases and depositories, training opportunities and best research practices. The speakers also discussed the new directions of the consortium, the actions towards the development of a collaborative annotation platform, of solutions for sustainable citation of corpora, and the creation of an open reference corpus for the French language. The large number of participants shows that this centers’ topics and services are of great interest and relevant to other CLARIN national initiatives, as well as to researchers and professionals from other research infrastructures and communities (data scientists, engineers, educators, etc.). The last speaker and co-organiser of this event was Thomas GAILLAT, associate professor of corpus Linguistics at the University of Rennes (France). He is working at the intersection between natural language processing, corpus linguistics and machine learning. His current research is mostly focused on language acquisition questions and the development of tools that automatically extract and visualise linguistic profiles in texts written by learners of English. His talk covered the issue of storing a comparable learner corpus on a data repository. Comparable corpora are made up of many files, which need to be accessed in an orderly manner in order to extract coherent datasets. Subsequent analyses can then be conducted to make comparisons between speakers of different L1s or L2s. T. Gaillat illustrated the issue with the corpus InterLangue (CIL) which is a learner corpus of L2 French and English. He showed that the corpus storage architecture now supports online extractions and comparisons in both languages. Based on the Huma-Num Nakala infrastructure and with the use of R scripts, it is possible to extract corpus items, annotate texts automatically and create datasets supporting comparisons. Comparability is ensured in several stages. Firstly, the French and English subsets of the corpus were collected on the same basis, i.e. identical tasks, similar proficiency, same file types and same metadata types. Secondly, the corpus data was formatted following the same transcription protocol and the same data formats (WAV for audio recordings, XML and txt for transcriptions and CSV for metadata). Finally, the queries can be conducted with scripts that apply consistent extraction based on identical metadata information. The scripts also include automated linguistic annotation with UDPipe, providing French and English texts with Universal Dependency and part-of-speech annotation. The scripts can be modified, as they are distributed under the Creative Commons licence. This CLARIN Café offered the perfect space to encourage discussions regarding corpora and multilinguality. This event presented some national and international initiatives in the domain and highlighted the emergence of three new corpus projects, including their purposes and features. Thanks to the presence of researchers from all around the world (83 participants from Europe, two from South America, two from Canada, two from the United States, four from Africa and three from Asia), presentations and discussions provided some new insights in the specifics of multilingual and multidialectal corpora and underlined the need for common practices in the domain of multilingual corpus building and management. Additional information on this CLARIN Café and the slides of the event are available on the event page.