Finnish Locative Cases for Nouns

Picking the right locative case in Finnish can be quite the challenge. Some words seem to prefer the internal locative case such Suomessa in Finland, while other words are inflected in the external locative cases such as Venäjällä in Russia.

This dataset is a part of Syntax maker, an NLG tool for Finnish. Please cite the following publication if you use this data in academic work:

Hämäläinen, Mika and Rueter, Jack 2018. Development of an Open Source Natural Language Generation Tool for Finnish. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages, 51–58.

Content
The file contains a list of Finnish nouns from the Finnish Internet Parsebank, these have been lemmatized and filtered by part-of-speech with Omorfi. The file records how many times the noun has been encountered in the inessive case and how many times in the adessive case.

Words that have occurred more times in inessive (Ine) take an internal locative case: Ruotsissa (inessive), Ruotsista (elative), Ruotsiin (illative)
Words that are more frequent in adessive (Ade) take an external locative case: Pihtiputaalla (adessive), Pihtiputaalta (ablative), Pihtiputaalle (allative)