Rannis (The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology) has awarded Hrafn two grants this year. Congratulations! The first project, Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) for Icelandic, will be worked on by a post-doctoral researcher and an Icelandic linguist in collaboration with mbl.is, Morgunblaðið’s news website. The second one is Named Entity Recognition (NER) for Icelandic. Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir and Ásmundur Guðjónsson, two students from the Language Technology (Máltækni) masters program will work on the NER project in collaboration with the Icelandic Stock Exchange. Welcome to LVL!
Anna Björk has also been awarded a grant, for her company, Grammatek ehf., in cooperation with the city of Akranes. Congratulations and we wish you all the best with your new endeavor!
More information regarding the ATS post-doctoral research position can be found at https://lvl.ru.is/jobs.
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