FiST – towards a free Semantic Tagger of modern standard Finnish

This paper introduces a work in progress for implementing a free full text semantic tagger for Finnish, FiST. The tagger is based on a 46 226 lexeme semantic lexicon of Finnish that was published in 2016. The basis of the semantic lexicon was developed in the early 2000s in an EU funded project Benedict (Lfberg et al., 2005). Lfberg (2017) describes compilation of the lexicon and evaluates a proprietary version of the Finnish Semantic Tagger, the FST 2 . The FST and its lexicon were developed using the English Semantic Tagger (The EST) of University of Lancaster as a model. This semantic tagger was developed at the University Centre for Corpus Research on Language (UCREL) at Lancaster University as part of the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS 3 ) framework. The semantic lexicon of the USAS framework is based on the modified and enriched categories of the Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English