Saldo
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- Scrambled XML: Several of the texts in the corpora of Språkbanken are protected by copyright. These are distributed as so called sentence sets. The sentences have been scrambled for copyright reasons. They thus appear in a randomized order, so that the original texts cannot be recreated.
- Statistics: For most of the corpora of Språkbanken, a file with statistics is available. It contains a a list, sorted by frequency, of words and their part-of-speech, lemgram if found, +/- indicating wether a compound analysis has been made, as well as raw frequency (number of occurences) and relative frequency (number of occurences per one million words).
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Introduction
SALDO (Swedish Associative Thesaurus version 2) is an extensive electronic lexicon resource for modern Swedish written language. It is created for the purpose of language technology research and for the development of language technology applications. Thus, it deviates from what you expect to find in a traditional lexicon for human use. It is not a normative lexicon, but is rather meant to be maximally descriptive. Additionally, it is distributed in a form which is intended for use as a component in a computer program. SALDO builds on Swedish Associative Thesaurus (SAL), a semantic lexicon for Swedish. SALDO may be viewed as a basic lexical resource for a Swedish BLARK (Basic LAnguage Resource Kit).
SALDO currently consists of i) semantic lexicon, which is a kind of lexical-semantic network, ii) a morphological lexicon, which contains full information about the part of speech and inflectional pattern of each entry, and iii) a computational morphological description, defined with the tool Functional Morphology (FM). All components are released under a Creative Commons Attribute-Share Alike license. SALDO may be downloaded as both the released versions and a development version. It is also distributed through four web services: an incremental fullform lookup service, an inflection engine service, a compound analysis service, and an experimental semantic visualizer. The web services are updated daily with the latest development version of SALDO.
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SALDO is distributed under the licenses
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- Documentation for the search interface (in Swedish): saldo_instruktion.pdf (2011-10-21)
- Download SALDO v2.0 (latest stable version, published 2010-11-08)
- Download SALDO v1.0 (published 2008-05-07).
Publications
2009
L. Borin, M. Forsberg. All in the family: A comparison of SALDO and WordNet. Proceedings of the Nodalida 2009 Workshop on WordNets and other Lexical Semantic Resources - between Lexical Semantics, Lexicography, Terminology and Formal Ontologies. Odense.
Download: saldo-nodalida09-ws-final.pdf
2008
L. Borin, M. Forsberg and L. Lönngren. The hunting of the BLARK - SALDO, a freely available lexical database for Swedish language technology. Resourceful language technology. Festschrift in honor of Anna Sågvall Hein, ed. by Joakim Nivre, Mats Dahllöf and Beata Megyesi. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 7. 21-32.
Download: ash-fs-080605.pdf
L. Borin, M. Forsberg, L. Lönngren. SALDO 1.0 (Svenskt associationslexikon version 2). Språkbanken,
Göteborg universitet, 2008-05-07
Download: saldo_1.0.pdf
2005
Lars Borin Mannen är faderns mormor: Svenskt associationslexikon reinkarnerat LexicoNordica 12: 39-54. [pdf]
