Tools and resources
Explore and use our digital tools and resources. Here we provide links to a selection.
Nationella språkbanken is actively working to develop a language technology infrastructure. We create, harmonize, and standardize free language resources. Additionally, we develop tools to explore the resources and make them accessible.
Tools
Dialektkartan. Contains hundreds of older dialect recordings from various parts of Sweden. Explore.
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Edyson. A tool that allows you to quickly get an overview of an audio material. Explore External link.. External link.
Folke. A digital archive service where you can access extensive folklore material that is 70 years or older. Explore. External link. Join the group Använda Folke. External link. at Facebook.
Yiddish-Swedish-Yiddish Dictionary. Explore. External link.
Korp. A word-centric research tool that you use to explore large amounts of language-processed texts from, among other things, newspapers, government data, fiction, and social media. Explore. External link.
Karp. A lexical research platform and an editorial environment for twenty different lexicons. Explore. External link.
Lexin. Dictionary for fifteen minority languages. Explore. External link.
Mink. A platform that enables the downloading and analysis of your own linguistic research data. Explore.
Miänkieli-Swedish Dictionary. The Meänkieli-Swedish-Meänkieli dictionary is a digital dictionary that contains approximately 30 000 words with translations from Swedish to Meänkieli, and from Meänkieli to Swedish.Explore. External link.
National Term Bank. Sweden's National Term Bank with around 130,000 terms from various subject areas. Explore. External link.
Social Glossary Swedish-Swedish Sign Language. Support for anyone who wants to use Swedish Sign Language in public settings. Explore. External link.
Sparv. A text analysis tool that is used, among other things, to analyze the corpora in Korp and the texts in Strix. Explore. External link.
Strix. A document-centric research tool that, like Korp, is used to explore large amounts of language-technologically processed texts, but at the document level. Strix contains a subset of the texts that Korp makes available, which depends on copyright. Explore. External link.
Sägenkartan. Contains about 10,000 archive records of legends from Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Explore. External link.
Topics2Themes. An example of topic modeling, a language technology method that makes it easier to find, sort, and analyze large amounts of text. Explore. External link.
Resources
Språkbanken Sam External link.
This resource hub offers various linguistic resources, such as word lists, lexicons, and text collections, freely available for download, sharing, and use. These resources can support translation and interpretation, facilitate research, and serve as data for the development of language technology tools.
Report on Language Resources for the Swedish Language External link.
Report on Language Resources for Minority Languages in the Nordic Region External link.
Språkbanken Text: Data Collections External link.
This section contains linguistic research data, including large text collections (corpora) enriched with language technology analyses, lexical resources, and other structured linguistic data. It also offers training and evaluation datasets, as well as language models.
Swe-Clarin
Swe-Clarin hosts Sweden's participation in CLARIN-ERIC External link..
CLARIN-ERIC provides access to linguistic research data from across Europe via the international database, the Virtual Language Observatory External link..
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When publishing or sharing your results, please acknowledge the National Language Bank (Nationella språkbanken) and the Swedish Research Council, including the grant's registration number.
Here is an example of a citation you may use: This research was made possible by the Swedish national research infrastructure, Nationella språkbanken, jointly funded by the Swedish Research Council (2018–2024, contract 2017-00626) and ten universities and public institutions.