New and events

As the COVID-19 virus became a pandemic in March 2020, the amount of (time-stamped written) data, such as news/newspaper reports, scientific articles, social media posts (e.g.

Artificial intelligence system dealing with (human) natural language rely on language models, predictions of which words occur together. To better understand how such models work -- and where they fail -- when applied to Swedish texts we need Swedish test data.

25-27 november gick den åttonde upplagan av SLTC, Swedish Language Technology Conference, av stapeln på Humanisten här i Göteborg. Eller, skulle ha gjort om inte ett visst virus satte stopp för det.

We at Språkbanken Text have just released a new corpus of native (L1) and non-native (L2) speech in four languages: English, Spanish, French and Italian.

This blog is based on the author's (Elena Volodina's) joint research with Yousuf (Samir) Ali Mohammed, Arild Matsson, Beáta Megyesi and Sandra Derbring

Newspapers contain complex layout and content structure. While layout refers to margins, white spaces, columns, placement of headings etc, content refers to the information inside a paragraph such as type of content in the paragraph, is it enumeration, bullet lists, addresses, etc.

När vi tänker på ord så tänker vi oftast på enheter som i text omges av blanksteg (mellanrum): 'huset', 'superstor', 'bloggade'. De flesta skulle nog säga att 'idag' är ett ord, men hur är det om vi skriver det (också rättstavat) 'i dag' då? 'Mont Blanc-tunneln'? 'Röda blodkroppar'?

(This blog is based on a joint research and publication in collaboration with David Alfter, Therese Lindström Tiedemann, Maisa Lauriala and Daniela Piipponen)

Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Bernard Comrie

Sverige har en relativt lång tradition av att skapa en typ av korpus som brukar kallas trädbank. En trädbank är en samling texter som har annoterats (märkts upp) med ordklasser och syntaktisk struktur. Den syntaktiska strukturen för en mening kan ritas upp så att den liknar ett träd.

Korp offers a lot of different corpus collections for various types of search (and research). Swedish as a Second Language (L2) is one of the subcategories of the language that can be studied with the help of Korp. At the moment, Korp provides access to five L2 corpora through its interface:

This post is about Talbanken, one of the most widely used and important Swedish corpora. There exist at least five versions of this treebank, and the purpose of this post is to reduce ambiguity of the name "Talbanken", which sometimes leads to confusion.