Language Report Finnish

Abstract

During the last ten years, digitalisation has changed the way we interact with the world creating an increasing demand for language-based AI services. In the field of language technology, the Finnish language is still only moderately equipped with products, technologies and resources. The situation has improved in recent years, but still support for automated translation leaves room for ample improvement, as the general support for spoken language is modest in industry applications although some recent research results are encouraging. We take stock of the existing resources for Finnish and try to identify some remaining gaps.