Category: Leisure
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Role models?
Sjá íslenska þýðingu neðar. Will the Icelandic Language Technology program and our efforts become role models for other similar languages? Read about RU’s take on the work we are participating in and see us in action (picture taken pre-Covid). Gæti íslenska máltækniáætlunin orðið leiðarljós annarra lítilla málsvæða? Hérna er umfjöllun HR um starfsemi okkar (Myndir…
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Can stress be measured?
For the past few years, Eydís has been looking into it. She did a cross analysis on different measurements of cognitive workload with respect to the Icelandic flight industry. Cognitive workload, for the purposes of this article is synonymous with stress. The research indicates there are clear differences in measurements when an individual is rested…
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Language Technology Seminar this Saturday
The cooperation between LVL and other leading icelandic organizations is increasing. Tomorrow Reykjavik University and Societas Scientiarum Islandica (Vísindafélag Íslendinga) are holding a seminar and panel discussion on the current progress and the future of implementing language technologies for Icelandic. It will be held at Reykjavik University room M105. Hrafn Loftsson, of LVL, will be…
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Radio Host Interviews Jón Guðnason about Robotics and AI
Recently, Jón was interviewed on the Icelandic afternoon radio show, Síðdegisútvarpið. On the program, he conversed about the progress in robotics and artificial intelligence. The focus of the conversation was on a new video from Boston Dynamics and how their robots can get about by opening doors and how the latest development in AI is…
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Delicious Summer Grill Party
Now that fall is in full swing, it’s a great time to reminisce about our summer. We arranged a grill party to celebrate the success of our papers this summer: three papers were accepted to Interspeech 2017 and two papers were published in journals. On a nice cloudy Thursday afternoon with our friends and family,…
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Interspeech 2017 Conference Summary
Yu-Ren gave a really good talk about measuring voice severity. Then, on Wednesday Anna, Inga, Matthías, and Jón answered questions about their posters to conference attendees. During the conference, welcome reception, and the banquet we reconnected with many old colleagues and met many new in the speech processing and speech recognition world. For anyone who…
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Largest Icelandic LVL Group at Interspeech in 2017
This August, our LVL group members will be attending Interspeech 2017 to present their three papers, meet other folks in the speech recognition field, and have lots of fun. Two posters,“Building an ASR corpus using Althingi’s Parliamentary Speeches” and “Building ASR corpora using Eyra,” will be presented during the Wednesday Special Session: Digital Revolution for Under-resourced…
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Bowling!
What better way to unwind than to take a step back, take 3 steps forward, and knock down those pins. The team went bowling at Keiluhöllin Egilshöll, had a few beers, a few laughs, and quite a few strikes (although machine intelligence combined with some robotics would probably have done better). Of course it’s all…
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CADIA Christmas Party
It’s not all speech recognition, artificial and machine intelligence, cutting edge technology, cerebral topics and turning it off and on again. Sometimes, if not all the time, it is important to have a little fun! (not everyone likes social gatherings mind you, but many do) Which brings us to the annual CADIA “Little Artificial Christmas”…
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AI Festival
The annual AI Festival was held at Reykjavik University two weeks ago on Nov 11, 2016. The focus of this year’s festival was AI and the economy. You can watch the entirety of the talks and discussions here (it was streamed live). There was no admission fee and the festival was open to everyone. Many…