The Centre for Language Technology (CLT) workshop brings together the language technology researc
The Centre for Language Technology (CLT) workshop brings together the language technology researc
Fifty years ago, the Logoteket was established at the University of Gothenburg. Today, Språkbanken is a national research infrastructure with extensive national and international collaborations. This makes us one of the world's oldest research and development units in language technology.
Språkbanken was envisioned in an op-ed piece written by Sture Allén for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter in September 1970. In 1973, the Computational Linguistics Unit submitted a formal proposal to the Ministry of Education, requesting earmarked funding for what was to become Språkbanken. Two years later, this research infrastructure became a reality, when the Logotheque (as it was called initially) was established with national funding in 1975.