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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 […]


The extension of the Suomi24 Corpus (years 2018-2020) is now available in Korp (beta)

6.11.2021

The much awaited extension of Suomi 24 is finally available for testing in Korp!


Are you planning to use speech or text materials in your MA or PhD thesis? Join the online course Data Clinic

1.11.2021

During the 5-month course, you learn to write a Data Management Plan and get practical advice and support for managing your own set of research data.


Welcome to the online course Introduction to Speech Analysis

1.11.2021

In the online course Introduction to Speech Analysis, you learn to use Praat and ELAN. The course is open to all universities and you may take it either in Finnish or in English.


New resource: Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Downloadable Version, May 2019

27.10.2021

New resource: Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Downloadable Version, May 2019 Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Downloadable Version, May 2019 is available at the download service at Kielipankki. More information […]


Researcher of the Month: Veronika Laippala

20.10.2021

Veronika Laippala tells us about her research on large language resources and computational methods.


New resource: Terminology Forum Glossaries (selection), source

5.10.2021

New resource: Terminology Forum Glossaries (selection), source   Terminology Forum Glossaries (selection), source is available at the download service at Kielipankki. More information can be found on the resource group page.


Aalto-ASR – Aalto University Automatic Speech Recognition System v2.1 is now available

4.10.2021

The upgraded version 2.1 of the Aalto University Automatic Speech Recognition System (Aalto-ASR) is now available for use on the CSC Puhti server.


Teaching CLARIN Awards 2021 won by teachers from Finland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom

4.10.2021

In 2021, the Teaching with CLARIN Award was given to three projects: Darja Fišer and Kristina Pahor de Maiti from Slovenia, Mietta Lennes from Finland, and Diana Maynard from the UK.


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

28.9.2021

The Finnish 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 Finnish sub-corpus of […]


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