As coordinators and developers of research and infrastructure projects, the Text Laboratory has been responsible for large, national resources, including: corpora of spoken languages such as Norwegian dialects and American Norwegian heritage language; corpora of web texts, literature and student texts; databases and word lists for a large selection of languages. As part of a large, NORAD funded project, the Text Laboratory has developed spoken corpora for eight Ethiopian languages.
The Text Laboratory has hosted UiO's Text Hub and is a C centre in the European CLARIN infrastructure. Read more about CLARINO Text Laboratory Centre.
From January 2023 the Text Laboratory is a part of a new unit: Humit – Centre for digital development.
Brief history
The Text Laboratory was established in 1992 by HF. From its inception, the Text Laboratory’s role was to accumulate tools and collections of texts, and supervise the faculty’s researchers in their use. While the Text Laboratory was initially a unit serving the entire faculty, it was later reassigned to the Department of Linguistics, due to structural reorganisation. As of 1.1.2005, owing to further reorganisation, the Text Laboratory has been a part of the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN).
Professor Janne Bondi Johannessen led the Text Laboratory from 1993 until her death, in 2020.
Projects
An overview of the Text Laboratory's projects can be found on the project page.
Employees
See an overview of employees in 2023 and their publications.
News and events
See the Norwegian pages.
