Newsletter of the Language Bank of Finland 1/2025

Suomeksi

Researchers of the Month in 2025

1. Tamás Grósz – automatic speech recognition (ASR)
2. Marko Jouste – Giellagas Corpus of Spoken Sámi languages
3. Simo Määttä – translation studies, interpreting, critical sociolinguistics
4. Pekka Posio – Ibero-Romance Languages, CoLaGe Corpus
5. Daniela Piipponen – historical linguistics, Digisvenska project
6. Jörg Tiedemann – language technology, OPUS ecosystem

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/

New, updated or extended corpora in 2025

• The Parsed Corpus of Scottish Correspondence, source
• Achemenet Babylonian texts – Kielipankki version 2020-12, Korp
• BALT: Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts – Kielipankki version 2025-02, Korp
• The extension of the Suomi24 Corpus covering the years 2021-2023, as well as an augmented version of the years 2001-2020 in Korp
• The extended and updated corpus collection Suomi24 covering the years 2001-2023 available in VRT format via the download service
• Neo-Babylonian Lexical Networks and the underlying dataset
• Oracc 2024 (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp version, November 2024)
• The Donera Prat corpus of Finland-Swedish speech, now available for academic research use 

Would you like to offer your own resource to be distributed via Kielipankki?

Submit the basic details about your own resource to the Language Bank of Finland: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021121422

The Origins of Emesal workshop 25.-26.6.2025

The main topic of the workshop is Emesal, a variant of Sumerian. The event will showcase several resources that were processed and made available in collaboration with the Language Bank of Finland. The event will be streamed on June 25-26. Please see the workshop programme on the website of ANEE.

Courses and training materials

The online course Corpus Linguistics and Statistical Methods (5 ECTS) will be offered again 1.9.–19.10.2025 and 12.1.–27.2.2026. Introduction to Speech Analysis (5 ECTS) will also be organized online during 27.10.–12.12.2025. In case you intend to start working on your thesis next winter, consider participating in the Data Clinic course (5 ECTS) that focusses on data management planning from various perspectives. The online courses are open to students from all universities, even outside Finland, unless the maximum group size is exceeded.

• All the open online courses offered by FIN-CLARIN: https://www.kielipankki.fi/support/training
• Courses listed the international Digital Humanities Course Registry: https://dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu/
• Training materials by CLARIN: https://www.clarin.eu/content/teaching-clarin#training-materials

News from the FIN-CLARIAH research infrastructure

• FIN-CLARIAH receives lighthouse status (March 2025)
• Plenary meeting held in Jyväskylä (13.6.2025)
• Latest deliverables

FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow

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! In September 2025, FIN-CLARIAH will pay a visit to CSC Data Center in Kajaani.

More information about the roadshow events will be updated on the Language Bank website.

Research Director Krister Lindén was appointed as Chair of the Steering Group of Språkbanken, Sweden as of 1.1.2025

Krister Lindén’s position of trust will make it even easier for the language banks in Finland and in Sweden to collaborate. Read more

CLARIN funding opportunities

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

The Language Bank of Finland is on vacation during 20.6.2025–4.8.2025

We wish you a relaxing holiday season!

Mietta Lennes and Wilhelmina Dyster
Project Planners
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi

 

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