News from the Language Bank of Finland 3rd February 2014

FIN-CLARIN accepted to the updated Finnish national roadmap

• FIN-CLARIN, together with the Bank of Finnish Terminology in Arts and Sciences, has been accepted to the updated Finnish national roadmap by the decision of the group of experts of the national research infrastructures. For more information on the Finnish national roadmap see http://www.aka.fi/en-GB/A/Programmes-and-cooperation/Research-infrastructure-funding/Roadmap-/.

FIN-CLARIN has now more than 3 billion Swedish words

• You can now search for sentences from a corpus of more than 3 billion words in Swedish in the FIN-CLARIN Language Bank of Finland. This is a corpus based on Finnish newspapers and magazines published from 1770 onwards, scanned and automatically digitized by the Finnish National Library.

https://korp.csc.fi/?mode=swedish#

The software can be best used with Firefox. The service is hosted by CSC (ling@csc.fi), while UHEL is responsible for the content (fin-clarin@helsinki.fi).

Signing in to Korp

• The concordance tool Korp has been updated. You can sign in to the new version by using your Haka or CSC credentials. Corpora that can be accessed only after signing in will be added to Korp later on.

The Finnish n-grams 1820-2000 of the Newspaper and Periodical Corpus of the National Library of Finland available for download

• The Finnish n-grams 1820-2000 of the Newspaper and Periodical Corpus of the National Library of Finland can be downloaded by decade athttps://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/FinCLARIN/FinClarinHallintoUudetKielivaratKLK.

The sentences of the corpus can be studied in Korp https://korp.csc.fi.

Upcoming events

• LREC Workshop CCURL 2014: Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages in the Linked Open Data Era, Reykjavik, 26 May 2014: http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2014/.

• The Fourth Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Health and Biomedical Text Processing (BioTxtM 2014), Reykjavik, 31 May 2014: http://www.nactem.ac.uk/biotxtm2014/.

• PolTAL 2014 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Warsaw, 17–19 September 2014: http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/.

FIN-CLARIN and the Language Bank of Finland wish you a succesful new year!

Imre Bartis
Project Coordinator / FIN-CLARIN
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi

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