CLARINO Bergen Centre provides a repository for searching and depositing language data, plus online services for treebanks and corpora.
Kielipankki
The Language Bank of Finland provides language resources for researchers, with corpora, tools, access guidance, and support.
About Kielipankki
The Language Bank of Finland is a service for researchers who work with language resources in digital humanities and social sciences. It offers text and speech corpora, along with tools that can be used to analyze and process them. Corpora can be analyzed with the site's tools or downloaded. Many corpora are publicly accessible, while some require logging in. Rights to use restricted resources are requested electronically through an application. The service is coordinated by the Finnish FIN-CLARIN consortium, which is part of the international CLARIN ERIC research infrastructure. According to the homepage, using the Language Bank is free for researchers and students.
Key features
- Text and speech corpora for studying natural language
- Tools for analyzing and processing corpora on the site
- Option to download corpora
- Electronic application for rights to use restricted resources
- Access to language resources from the wider CLARIN community via FIN-CLARIN
- Agreements with FIN-CLARIN for depositing and distributing research groups' own material
Best for: Researchers, teachers and students in language research and other digital humanities work who need text or speech corpora and tools for studying them.
Good for
- Free for researchers and students, according to the homepage
- Wide variety of text and speech corpora and tools for studying them
- Suited to digital humanities research beyond language research
Watch out for
- Some corpora require logging in
- Restricted resources require applying for rights to use them
Kielipankki at a glance
- Website
- kielipankki.fi/language-bank
- Category
- Research & Data › Open Data & Datasets
- Type
- Website
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Platforms
- Web
- Open source
- Not stated
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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Kielipankki FAQ
Is the Language Bank free to use?
The homepage states that using the Language Bank is free for researchers and students.
How can I get technical support?
The Language Bank's technical support can be reached by email at kielipankki (at) csc.fi or by phone at +358 9 4572001. Requests related to language resources can be sent to fin-clarin (at) helsinki.fi or by phone at +358 29 4129317.
Can researchers add their own material to the Language Bank?
Researchers and research groups can agree with FIN-CLARIN on depositing and distributing their own material.
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