News from the Language Bank of Finland, 3rd August 2017

Kielipankki Researchers of the Month

• In May Ilmari Ivaska told us about his corpus-driven research on Finnish as a second language. He has also been involved in collecting corpora. https://www.kielipankki.fi/news/researcher-of-the-month-ilmari-ivaska/
• In June Juho Härme presented his research on Finnish and Russian temporal expressions for which he uses several parallel and newspaper corpora available in the Language Bank of Finland. https://www.kielipankki.fi/news/researcher-of-the-month-juho-harme/
• In July Katja Västi told us about her research on the semantic and syntactic properties of Finnish verbless expressions. The main corpus data of her doctoral dissertation was the Finnish Text Collection. https://www.kielipankki.fi/news/researcher-of-the-month-katja-vasti/

Will you be the next Researcher of the Month for Kielipankki?

• Did you use the corpora available in the Language Bank of Finland in your research? Tell us about it and you may make it to the news of the Faculty of Arts at University of Helsinki.

Large English corpora now available via Korp

• COCA, Corpus of Contemporary American English – Kielipankki Korp version 2017H1: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2017061922
• COHA, Corpus of Historical American English – Kielipankki Korp version 2017H1: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2017061925
• GloWbE, Corpus of Global Web-Based English – Kielipankki Korp version 2017H1: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2017061928
• In order to use the aforementioned corpora in Korp, you need to log in with a Finnish university account (i.e., from a FIN-CLARIN member organization).
• Additionally, downloadable versions of the aforementioned corpora will soon be available. An individual permission will be required for downloading.

ScotsCorr also available in Korp

• ScotsCorr, Helsinki Corpus of Scottish Correspondence (1540-1750): http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-201411071
• You can access the corpus after logging in with your university account.

Introducing Mylly – ”The Mill”: a new service for processing and analyzing your material

• More information about Mylly: https://www.kielipankki.fi/support/mylly/

Courses

• The online course Corpus linguistics and statistical methods will be held in Finnish starting on 5th September (https://www.kielipankki.fi/tapahtumat/korpuslingvistiikka-ja-tilastomenetelmat-kurssi-2017s). In January-March 2018, the same course will be held in English for the first time. The course will be open to all Finnish universities and it will also be possible to participate from abroad.
• All courses offered by FIN-CLARIN in 2017-2018 (information currently in Finnish): https://kitwiki.csc.fi/twiki/bin/view/FinCLARIN/FinClarinKoulutus

FIN-CLARIN in the limelight

• In April and May, FIN-CLARIN and the Language Bank of Finland were featured in Tour de CLARIN. See all posts: https://www.clarin.eu/tags/tour-de-clarin-finland

 

FIN-CLARIN and the Language Bank of Finland wish you a great indian summer!

Mietta Lennes
Project Coordinator / FIN-CLARIN
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi

 

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