# Finnish Paraphrase Corpus

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13103 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13103/

## Key facts

- Cited by 10 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 5 of its 13 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Multilingual is not enough: BERT for Finnish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.07076/) (2019)
- [A Continuously Growing Dataset of Sentential Paraphrases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.00391/) (2017)
- [ParaSCI: A Large Scientific Paraphrase Dataset for Longer Paraphrase Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.08382/) (2021)
- [Open Subtitles Paraphrase Corpus for Six Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.06142/) (2018)
- [PARADE: A New Dataset for Paraphrase Identification Requiring Computer Science Domain Knowledge](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03725/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 10 of 10)

- [Aya Dataset: An Open-Access Collection for Multilingual Instruction Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.06619/) (2024)
- [FinGPT: Large Generative Models for a Small Language](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.05640/) (2023)
- [GEMv2: Multilingual NLG Benchmarking in a Single Line of Code](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.11249/) (2022)
- [BanglaParaphrase: A High-Quality Bangla Paraphrase Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.05109/) (2022)
- [Effects of sub-word segmentation on performance of transformer language models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.05480/) (2023)
- [NMTScore: A Multilingual Analysis of Translation-based Text Similarity Measures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.13692/) (2022)
- [Annotation Guidelines for the Turku Paraphrase Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.07499/) (2021)
- [Semantic Search as Extractive Paraphrase Span Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04886/) (2021)
- [Can LLMs Detect Intrinsic Hallucinations in Paraphrasing and Machine Translation?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.20699/) (2025)
- [Quantitative Evaluation of Alternative Translations in a Corpus of Highly Dissimilar Finnish Paraphrases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.02477/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce the first fully manually annotated paraphrase corpus for Finnish containing 53,572 paraphrase pairs harvested from alternative subtitles and news headings. Out of all paraphrase pairs in our corpus 98% are manually classified to be paraphrases at least in their given context, if not in all contexts. Additionally, we establish a manual candidate selection method and demonstrate its feasibility in high quality paraphrase selection in terms of both cost and quality.