The Bank of Swedish

The Bank of Swedish is described: affiliation, organisation, linguistic resources and tools. A point is made of the close connection between lexical research and corpus data, the broad textual coverage from Modern Swedish to Old Swedish, the official status of the organisation and its connection to Göteborg University. The relation to the broader scope of the comprehensive Language Database of Swedish is discussed. A few current issues of the Bank of Swedish are presented: parallell corpora production, the construction of a Swedish morphology database and sense tagging of text corpora. Finally, the updating of the Bank of Swedish concordance system is mentioned. Modern corpora (50 milj. words) Parallell corpora Annotated corpora (morph.; sense) (20 milj. words) Historical corpora (8 milj. words) Large contemporary lexical databases • LDB (60 000 entries) • SAOL (The Swedish Academy glossary 120 000 entries) • PAROLE/SIMPLE (30 000 entries) Historical Dictionaries (1200–1900) • SAOB (The Swedish Academy Dictionary; 450 000 entries) • Dalin (19th century dictionary) • Söderwall (Medieval Swedish) • Schlyter (Medieval Swedish) Database of inflexional forms (derived from SAOL; 1 milj entries) The Swedish Academy Grammar (4 volumes) The Swedish Prosody Handbook CORPORA (corpora resources held by the Bank of Swedish