1. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely Språkbanken i Finland Kielipankki Language Bank of Finland Nordic Treebank Network Fefor, September 17, 2003

2. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely Vem, kuka, who? The Language Bank of Finland is a service provided by CSC CSC is owned by the Finnish Ministry of Education –provides HPCN services to all universities –maintains scientific applications and databases CSC focuses on providing shared services Services are gratis for universities, non-profit for companies The Language Bank serves the linguistic community in Finland –Server: corpus.csc.fi server (Linux) –Text collections (Finnish and Finland-Swedish) –Taggers –Web based corpus query tool

3. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely Varför, miksi, why? There is no Treebank of Finnish at present … and it is a shame, so The Language Bank wants to bring about its creation –Infrastructure programme by the Academy of Finland in 2004 –The plan is to use Finnish Dependency Grammar by Connexor Without query and analysis tools the treebank is just a large heap of files –We need information on tools and technology in order to create a nice service for linguists and language technology professionals

4. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely At present the Language Bank offers... (1) Text collection of Finnish –180 million words –60 % with msd tags (TextMorfo 2.0) Text collection of Finland-Swedish –32 million words –100 % with msd tags (SWECG) Swedish PAROLE –19 million words (courtesy of Språkbanken, Gothenburg) Other: –Le Monde 1990, German PAROLE, FISC, Susanne, OTA, Middle French, Oulu

5. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely At present the Language Bank offers... (2) WWW Lemmie 2.0 (screenshot on next slide) –Easy-to-use corpus query tool developed at CSC Taggers –Fi-lite (Connexor) –En-lite (Connexor) –ENGCG (Lingsoft) –SWECG (Lingsoft) –FINTWOL (Lingsoft) –TextMorfo (Kielikone) –Morfo (Kielikone)

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7. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely In the past the Language Bank has been active in... Preparing ground for research programmes –Preliminary survey on language technology 1998 –Preliminary survey on spoken language research 2001 Participating in programmes with universities –Enlargement of text collections 1999-2001 –Integrated resources for speech technology and spoken language research 2002-2004

8. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely In the future the Language Bank will offer... Spoken language data –Academy of Finland funding –The work is being done Annotation editor for spoken language data (screenshot on next slide) –Annotation interchange format in RDF –Supports collaborative annotation Treebank of Finnish ;-) –Just need some money… Better tools for querying and processing research data

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10. 6/25/2015AEB/Yleisesittely More information http://www.csc.fi/kielipankki/ manne.miettinen@csc.fi