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Oulu Corpus

Persistent Identifier of this resource:

http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-201403266

The resource is available in Kielipankki - the Language Bank of Finland via the computing environment (puhti.csc.fi). Researchers may apply for individual access rights for research use, see instructions at https://www.kielipankki.fi/support/access/. The purpose of the resource use must be outlined in a research plan.

The Oulu Corpus is a research material of Standard Finnish in the 1960's. The original material was collected by a group led by prof. Pauli Saukkonen at the University of Oulu. The original corpus project aimed to collect a representative sample of Standard Finnish language in the 1960's media in order to create a frequency dictionary of Finnish. The annotated text material was converted into SGML format by the Institute for the Languages of Finland in 1997.

The corpus is divided into the following sections:

- fiction literature published in 1961 - 1967
- radio talks during 29 September 1968 - 26 May 1969
- newspapers and journals in 1967
- non-fiction literature 1961 - 1967

The corpus also contains some transcripts of interviews in Finnish. The corpus does not include language as used in television.

Each section contains further subdivisions. The text samples in each genre were selected randomly.

The content was grammatically annotated using CQP (Corpus Query Processor).


Change log:
26.11.2018 the link http://islrn.org/resources/875-594-014-737-2 was removed.