Tomorrow, 16th of October 2019, there will be a conference on Icelandic language technology. The conference will take place at Veröld – hús Vigdísar and starts at 8:00.
A number of people affiliated (past and present) with the LVL will be giving talks there such as:
- David Erik Mollberg, Ólafur Helgi Jónsson, Viktor Sveinsson Sunneva Þorsteinssdóttir – students at HÍ and RU will launch an open speech data collection initivate for Icelandic.
- Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir – project manager at SÍM (Samstarf um íslenska máltækni – Collaboration on Icelandic Language Technology) and CEO of Grammatek will talk about tools in language technology.
- Hrafn Loftsson – docent at the School of Computer Science in RU will talk about automatic text summarization for Icelandic.
The conference focuses on the importance of Icelandic language technology for academy and industry and is open for anyone to attend.
For more details on the conference and speaker list, see the facebook event (Icelandic)
Language and Voice Lab 
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