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Researcher of the Month: Ari Huhta

18.3.2022

Ari Huhta tells us about his research on language assessment.


New resource: The Swedish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version, VRT

18.3.2022

New resource: The Swedish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version, VRT The Swedish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library […]


New resource: The Finnish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version, VRT

18.3.2022

New resource: The Finnish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version, VRT The Finnish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library […]


General-purpose HeLI-OTS language identifier released through industry-academia cooperation

10.3.2022

ELG-compatible HeLI-OTS language identifier released on hub.docker.com in collaboration with Lingsoft and the University of Helsinki HeLI-OTS is a general-purpose language identifier that can automatically detect the language used in […]


Updated Terms of Use of the Language Bank of Finland

14.2.2022

The Terms of Use of the Language Bank of Finland as well as the resource-specific license terms and conditions were updated.


Researcher of the Month: Tuisku Vilenius

11.2.2022

Tuisku Vilenius investigated a corpus of Finnish online discussions to outline the cultural stereotypes that emerged from the discussions related to the indigenous Saami people.


Online course: Corpus Linguistics and Statistical Methods, spring 2022

14.1.2022

The online course Corpus Linguistics and Statistical Methods will be offered again during 17.1.–6.3.2022. This course can be taken either in Finnish or in English and you may join it from any university, if space allows.


Researcher of the Month: Jussi Ylikoski

10.1.2022

Jussi Ylikoski tells us about his research on the grammatical properties of Finnish and other Uralic languages.


Newsletter of the Language Bank of Finland

22.12.2021

A lot has happened during the year 2021 despite the pandemic: many new corpora, tools and resources have been published in the Language Bank, the resource-specific data protection terms and conditions are under active development, and of course you can read a number of interesting interviews of the Researchers of the Month. The Donate Speech campaign has been awarded several times. And did you know what kinds of funding you can apply from CLARIN ERIC? Read more in this newsletter!


Updates to resource-specific licenses and data protection terms and conditions

22.12.2021

The most prominent change will be the resource-specific data protection terms and conditions, which will be included as a new part in all resources containing personal data.


”Resource group” pages on the Language Bank website

22.12.2021

The new resource group pages provide a quick overview of all the available versions of a given resource.


Krister Lindén och Mathias Creutz intervjuades i Yles språkpodd Näst sista ordet 5.12.2021

20.12.2021

Krister Lindén och Mathias Creutz intervjuades i Yles språkpodd Näst sista ordet 5.12.2021 Avsnittets namn var Finlandssvensk artificiell språkintelligens är framtiden – vi undrar hur och varför. Lyssna på intervjun […]


Researcher of the Month: Jutta Salminen

16.12.2021

Jutta Salminen tells us about her research on the various ways of expressing negation in Finnish.


Stay tuned for the long-awaited Korp update in December 2021!

7.12.2021

Korp will finally be upgraded to a new version in December 2021. You can already test the new Korp!


The Swedish version of the Donate Speech campaign has started online

30.11.2021

Everyone who once in a while uses Swedish in Finland is welcome to donate their speech samples so that in the future, artificial intelligence will also understand Swedish the way it is spoken in Finland.


Donate Speech awarded with Prix Europa: Best European Digital Audio Project of the Year 2021

27.11.2021

The Donate Speech campaign, where the Language Bank of Finland has been involved, was awarded with PRIX EUROPA: Best European Digital Audio Project of the Year 2021.


University of Helsinki Open Science Award 2021 granted to the Language Bank of Finland

27.11.2021

On 29th October 2021, the Language Bank of Finland and the Donate Speech campaign (Lahjoita puhetta) were awarded by the University of Helsinki in recognition of exceptional work in promoting open science. Read more and watch the presentation!


Short name ’digilib’ was changed into ’klk’

24.11.2021

For consistency, the short names of two downloadable versions of The Newspaper and Periodical OCR Corpus of the National Library of Finland, Kielipankki Version, were changed from ”digilib” into ”klk”.


Researcher of the Month: Mikko Kurimo

22.11.2021

Professor Mikko Kurimo tells us about his research on automatic speech recognition.


New corpus (beta): The Swedish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version

8.11.2021

The Swedish sub-corpus of the Classics Library of the National Library of Finland – Kielipankki version is now available in Korp as a beta test version. The Swedish sub-corpus of […]


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