Språkbanken Text

– The University of Gothenburg

Språkbanken Text is a research and development unit at the University of Gothenburg, and a node in cross-disciplinary research collaboration at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology formalized under the name of Centre for Language Technology. Språkbanken was established with government funding already in 1975 as a national center.

The main focus of Språkbanken Text's present-day activities within Swe-Clarin is the development and refinement of language resources and language technology tools, and their application to research in language technology, in linguistics and in HSS and medical research.

B- and K-centre 

Språkbanken Text has participated in CLARIN since the start of the preparatory phase project in 2008. 

The unit constitutes one of CLARIN's B-centres – also named Språkbanken Text – that is, distinguished research environments which provide long-term services. The unit also contributes to the distributed K-centre Diachronic Language Resources (DiaRes), which is focused around diachronic text collections as well as tools and resources for processing and analysing these.

Språkbanken Text contributes to the work on standardisation on both a national and European level concerning formats and metadata descriptions of language technological resources. 

Widely used tools

The unit has developed a widely used corpus infrastructure, Korp, and a number of lexical resources, which are integrated into a lexicon infrastructure, Karp, in both cases based on cutting-edge language technology, widely accepted standards for data and content, and web-service based APIs.

Språkbanken Text is involved in several research collaborations with scholars in the humanities and social sciences involving the use of language technology based eScience tools.

The unit has developed and maintains The Swedish Literature Bank, a comprehensive digitization initiative of national literature. In connection to this, Språkbanken has been actively involved in an international collaboration on the development of a standardized publishing platform for digital scholarly editions.

Contact

Lars Borin, sb-info@svenska.gu.se