All previous researchers of the month can be found in the archive.
Do you know researchers who use the Language Bank of Finland and who might be good candidates for Researcher of the Month? Would you be one of them? Inform us: https://www.kielipankki.fi/support/contact-us/
The update to the Suomi24 Corpus, including forum posts from the years 2021-2023, is currently in preparation. We expect to make the Korp version and the downloadable VRT version available during February-March 2025.
Submit the basic details about your own resource to the Language Bank of Finland: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021121421
The Korp service of the Language Bank of Finland was moved to a new server on 12 November 2024. Korp also got a few minor fixes and changes. Read more…
The European Language Data Space (abbreviated LDS) is an ecosystem for the sharing and commercialisation of language data, such as text and speech data. The LDS is now entering the pilot phase, where the Language Bank of Finland is also actively involved. Read more…
The online course Corpus Linguistics and Statistical Methods (5 ECTS) will be offered again on 13.1.–28.2.2025. This online course is open to students from all universities, even outside Finland.
The Research Council of Finland has included FIN-CLARIAH in Finland’s national roadmap for research infrastructures 2025–2028. The work done within FIN-CLARIAH during the year 2024 is showcased here.
In November, a FIN-CLARIAH meeting was organized in Turku to discuss metadata. Read the wrap-up of the event on the DARIAH-FI blog.
The workshop ”LLMs and Speech-Centric AI” was organized by the University of Helsinki, Kites ry and the LAREINA project in October 2024, bringing together experts from the Finnish industry, public administration and research to discuss the opportunities of large language models and speech technology in public and private sector organisations. Information about similar upcoming workshops will be shared via the LAREINA project.
In the Donate Speech campaign, which ran from 2020 to 2024, a large and diverse corpus of Finnish-language speech was collected in order to be used by both researchers and businesses. Together with researchers, the Language Bank of Finland participated in the Studia Generalia ”Citizen Science” event organised at the University of Helsinki on 30 October 2024, showcasing the ongoing research and development based on the Donate Speech corpus. The data has been used, for instance, to develop automatic speech recognition at Aalto University and speech synthesis at the University of Helsinki.
The third-ever Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum) conference was held at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland, from 10-12 December 2024. As a satellite event to the regular conference programme, a workshop was organized by FIN-CLARIAH, introducing the tools and services developed in the FIN-CLARIAH project that are especially suitable for studying data collected from the web. Read more on the DARIAH-FI blog
The FIN-CLARIAH project will be presented in different locations through a series of roadshow events where you can learn more about current research, methods, tools and services in the humanities and social sciences. Of course, the Language Bank of Finland will also be there! The next event is to be held in March 2025 at the University of Vaasa. More information about the roadshow events will be updated on the Language Bank website.
Did you know that CLARIN offers grants for, e.g., researcher and teacher mobility, events and training activities? Check out the funding opportunities and current calls: https://www.clarin.eu/funding
We wish you a relaxing holiday season!
Mietta Lennes and Wilhelmina Dyster
Project Planners
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi
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