Analyze Finnish Poetry Computationally
Poetry is a complex genre of literature, and it is often something that we wouldn't expect computers to be able to understand. Poems play with the language by intentionally breaking […]
Linguistics
Linguistics is a category in a broad sense of the word. It could very well be Philology. Posts varying from syntax to sociolinguistics fall into this category.
Process dialectal Finnish in Python
When we Finns write online or message with friends and family, we hardly ever resort to using standard written Finnish (kirjakieli). Instead, we write as we would speak (in puhekieli), […]
Parsing Finnish Syntax in Python Easily
Turku dependency parsers, both the statistical and neural ones, are no doubt among the most important recent NLP tools developed for Finnish. Without them, doing NLP for Finnish would be […]
How to install VISL CG3 on Mac, Windows and Linux
VISL CG3 is a neat tool for running constraint grammars (CGs) for things such as morphological disambiguation or syntactic parsing. Grammars of this formalism have been developed for a great […]
How to use Omorfi for Finnish morphology
Omorfi is inarguably an amazing tool for processing Finnish morphology both in analysis and generation. However, using it might be quite a challenge for the users who are not too […]
What on earth are affixes in morphology?
Morphology can be described as the smallest information bearing unit of the human language. Words that are inflected can be divided into morphemes, e.g. -ed in talked is a morpheme that […]
Korp and Python. Access corpora from your Python code!
If you have done language technology in a Nordic country, you have probably heard about Korp. And by now, you have probably developed some sort of a love-hate relationship to […]
Sarcasm is sooo great! But what is it?
Oh, sarcasm, sarcasm. The thing that puzzles us so much. It takes some knowledge of the person to know if he is being sarcastic or not. Regardless of how sarcastic […]
Create Finnish sentences computationally in Python (NLG)
If you are interested in generating Finnish with a computer (NLG), you have probably already run into the problem of the complex morphology and syntax of Finnish. In addition to […]
The fantastic 4 of language groups
Languages can be grouped together in different ways. One can put languages together based on their family relation (e.g. Uralic languages, Indo-European languages) or the area where they are spoken. […]