18.6.2026

Newsletter of the Language Bank of Finland 1/2026

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Researchers of the Month in 2026

1. Atte Huhtala – meaning-driven study of grammar, Finnic and Permic languages
2. Kalle Lahtinen – linguistic affect and speech emotion, FinnAffect corpus
3. Heini Kallio – phonetics of language learning, automatic assessment of oral skills in a foreign language
4. Max Wahlström – Slavic languages, research on the Suomi24 corpus
5. Milla Uusitupa – interactional linguistic research on dialect syntax, Finnish and Karelian dialects
6. Minna Sääskilahti – research on Kalle Päätalo’s Iijoki series, discourse analysis

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 2026

• Yle Finnish News Archive 2022-2024 available for download in VRT format
• ’Ihmisiä telineillä’ and ’Koillismaa’ from the University of Oulu Päätalo collection
• Finnish presidential elections 2024 in social media, source

Expected in June-August:

• Spoken Finnish and English of Finnish-American Immigrants, source
• ERME – Paragraph Segmentation Low Annotation, Korp
• The Swedish Sub-corpus of the Newspaper and Periodical Corpus of the National Library of Finland, version 2, Korp

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

Mink – process your own text corpora and search them in Korp

• Mink is now available in the Language Bank of Finland! You can log in to Mink with your home university user account (via HAKA/eduGAIN federations), upload your own texts, annotate them with automatic tools if required, and query the resulting private corpus via Korp within the Mink platform. Read more about Mink

Korp update status

• The major upgrade of the Korp concordancing service has been waiting for Mink to be published first, but the new Korp version is expected to appear in the autumn of this year. Please follow the Language Bank website for further information on the update schedule.

CSC services: From Puhti to Roihu

• During the summer, the Puhti supercomputer at CSC will be replaced by Roihu. Please prepare for the migration of your data to the new computing environment if required (see the instructions by CSC).
• Most of the Language Bank tools and the copies of downloadable resources will be automatically migrated to Roihu. Read more

Small update to CLARIN end-user licenses

• A small clarification was made to the PLAN condition of all CLARIN licenses in the RES category. Read more

Events in 2026

• 6.2.2026 Supporting the Research Community in the Age of AI. The aim of the workshop was to gather ideas and discuss how our research infrastructure can better support the research community.
• 25.3.2026 FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow From Data to Intelligence, Aalto University. Read a blog post about the event
• 22.4.2026 Digital Language Sovereignty – Euskadi–Finland AI & Language Workshop, Helsinki. Our hybrid event, organized together with Euskorpora of the Basque Country (Euskadi), gathered together around 70 researchers and experts to discuss current developments and future opportunities in artificial intelligence and language technologies.
• 11.-12.6.2026 FIN-CLARIAH Summer meeting ”Networks & Communities”, Joensuu
• 24.6.2026 15-17 (EEST) CLARIN Café | JOHD Special Collection on Language Dataset Reuse
• 26.8.2026 FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow event, Oulu. Register for the event by 15.7.2026!
• 27.–28.8.2026 CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora), Oulu.
• 9.-10.11.2026 FIN-CLARIAH meeting, Helsinki. Language Bank of Finland 30 years (Save the date!)
• 10.-11.11.2026 ASTIN conference, Helsinki, organized in Nordic collaboration (Save the date!)

News from the FIN-CLARIAH research infrastructure

• The new project period begun on 1st January 2026. Read the latest deliverables.
• The FIN-CLARIAH infrastructure is presented at different locations through a series of ”FIN-CLARIAH Roadshow” events where you can learn more about current research, methods, tools and services in the humanities and social sciences. More information about the roadshow events will be updated on the Language Bank website.

Courses and training materials

The following courses are open and free of charge to university degree students from all universities, given that the maximum group size is not exceeded. (If you are not a degree student or staff member in any university, you can participate via Open University for a fee.)

1. The online course Corpus Linguistics and Statistical Methods (5 ECTS) will be offered 31.8–18.10.2026 and again 18.1.–5.3.2027.
2. The online course Introduction to Speech Analysis is available during 26.10.–13.12.2026.
3. The online course Data Clinic (26.10.2026–7.5.2027) is intended for PhD students and graduate students who need to process and manage a dataset containing running text or speech for their thesis. This year, you will be able to join and complete the course flexibly at your own schedule. Follow the course page for further details!

• 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/
• Learning resource catalogue by CLARIN: https://www.clarin.eu/learning-resources-catalogue

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 19.6.2025–5.8.2026

We wish you a relaxing summer!

Mietta Lennes and Wilhelmina Dyster
Research Infrastructure people
fin-clarin@helsinki.fi

 

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