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Title The Bank of Swedish
Authors Gellerstam Martin (Språkbanken, Dept. for Swedish, Göteborg University, Box 200, SE–405 30, Sweden, svemg@svenska.gu.se)
Cederholm Yvonne (Språkbanken, Dept. for Swedish, Göteborg University, Box 200, SE–405 30, Sweden, sveyc@svenska.gu.se)
Rasmark Torgny (Språkbanken, Dept. for Swedish, Göteborg University, Box 200, SE–405 30, Sweden, svetr@svenska.gu.se)
Keywords Alignment, Corpora Workbench, Language Bank, Lexical Database, Parallell Corpora, Part-of-Speech Tagging
Session Session WP1 - Lexicon
Full Paper 300.ps, 300.pdf
Abstract The Bank of Swedish is described: affiliation, organisation, linguistic resources and tools. A point is made of the close connection between lexical research and corpus data, the broad textual coverage from Modern Swedish to Old Swed-ish, the official status of the organisation and its connection to Göteborg University. The relation to the broader scope of the comprehensive Language Database of Swedish is discussed. A few current issues of the Bank of Swedish are presented: parallell corpora production, the construction of a Swedish morphology database and sense tagging of text corpora. Finally, the updating of the Bank of Swedish concordance system is mentioned.