The Current State of Finnish NLP

TL;DR

This paper surveys recent Finnish NLP research, highlighting diverse tools, resources, and collaborative efforts across Finnish research groups, covering areas like parsing, generation, semantics, and speech.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent Finnish NLP research, emphasizing the availability of tools and open-source models from academic groups.

Findings

Numerous NLP tools and resources are available for Finnish.

Finnish NLP research is conducted across many Finnish research groups.

Open-source platforms like Github host many Finnish NLP models.

Abstract

There are a lot of tools and resources available for processing Finnish. In this paper, we survey recent papers focusing on Finnish NLP related to many different subcategories of NLP such as parsing, generation, semantics and speech. NLP research is conducted in many different research groups in Finland, and it is frequently the case that NLP tools and models resulting from academic research are made available for others to use on platforms such as Github.