# The Current State of Finnish NLP

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11326 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.11326/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 16 of its 82 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 23 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

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- [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.04606/) (2016)
- [Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07082/) (2020)
- [Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.09902/) (2017)
- [Multilingual is not enough: BERT for Finnish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.07076/) (2019)
- [XED: A Multilingual Dataset for Sentiment Analysis and Emotion Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.01612/) (2020)
- [Open Subtitles Paraphrase Corpus for Six Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.06142/) (2018)
- [Endangered Languages are not Low-Resourced!](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.09567/) (2021)
- [A Finnish News Corpus for Named Entity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04212/) (2019)
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- [Template-free Data-to-Text Generation of Finnish Sports News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.01863/) (2019)
- [An Unsupervised method for OCR Post-Correction and Spelling Normalisation for Finnish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.03502/) (2020)
- [Automatic Speech Recognition with Very Large Conversational Finnish and Estonian Vocabularies](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.04227/) (2017)
- [High Quality ELMo Embeddings for Seven Less-Resourced Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.10049/) (2019)
- [Automatic Dialect Adaptation in Finnish and its Effect on Perceived Creativity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.02685/) (2020)
- [FinChat: Corpus and evaluation setup for Finnish chat conversations on everyday topics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.08315/) (2020)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

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.