Category: News
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Lunchtime talk: Extracting more value from parallelizable corpora by re-evaluating data that is usually discarded
The Language and Voice Lab and CADIA present a lunchtime talk by Steinþór Steingrímsson: Extracting more value from parallelizable corpora by re-evaluating data that is usually discarded Tuesday April 19th at 12:20Zoom – https://bit.ly/mt-lunch Parallel corpora are necessary for training machine translation (MT) systems, and useful for a variety of other tasks. When corresponding texts in two or more languages…
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Lunchtime talk: Visual processing in context of reinforcement learning
The Language and Voice Lab and CADIA present a PhD thesis lunchtime talk by Hlynur Davíð Hlynsson: Visual processing in context of reinforcement learning. Monday April 4th at 12:20 In this work, Hlynur presents three different representation learning algorithms in the context of reinforcement learning (RL): (i) GrICA is inspired by the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and trains a deep neural network to deliver…
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Lunchtime talk – Language technology applications: Spelling and grammar correction for Icelandic
The Language and Voice Lab and CADIA present a lunchtime talk by Hulda Óladóttir on language technology applications with a special focus on spelling and grammar correction for Icelandic. Time: Monday Jan. 10th from 12:20-13:00Location: Zoom bit.ly/IceGrammar Various language technology tools and resources can be used as building blocks in specific applications, such as spelling…
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Lunchtime talk – Quantifying pronunciation difference: Dialectometry, CAPT, and more
How strong is an accent? Dr. Caitlin Laura Richter talks about a proposed method to quantify the amount of phonetic difference across speakers, such as individuals with different dialects or second language learners. Time: Monday 29/11/21, from 12:20-13:00Location: Zoom Dr. Richter will review the development of aggregate pronunciation difference measurements within the field of linguistics,…
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Lunchtime Talk: Learning Classifier Systems for Text Normalization using Regular Expressions as Input
CADIA-LVL present a lunchtime talk by Helga Svala Sigurðurðardóttir based on her ongoing Ph.D. work titled Learning Classifier Systems for Text Normalization using Regular Expressions as Input. Time: Monday 15/11/21, 12:20-13:00 Location: Zoom The talk focuses on automatic Text Normalization (TN), an important task for achieving speech synthesis with proper pronunciation involving expanding so-called non-standard…
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Two Conferences in Two Weeks
Sjá íslenska þýðingur neðar Within the next two weeks the Language and Voice Lab will be participating in two conferences: Máltæknibyltingin – Stafræn nýsköpun íslenskunnar and Northern European NLP conference NoDaLiDa Máltæknibyltingin – Stafræn nýsköpun íslenskunnar The target audience for this conference is the general public. It will showcase our work for the past two…
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Building language technology applications to help nations, industry, medicine, language learning, and users.
Sjá íslenska þýðingu neðar We have received five grants. We are also welcoming a new RU professor to LVL, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson. For these grants we are hiring specialists in artificial intelligence, language technology and software development. The deadline for the job applications are March 15th, 2021. Three grants are from the Icelandic Centre for…
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Can you preserve Icelandic voices with text-to-speech engines?
On July 11th, Tengivagninn on the Rás 1 attempted to answer this question and many more in an interview with Jon Gudnason and Ragnheiður Þórhallsdóttir. Practical information about the radio program is below: Language: Icelandic Name of show: Tengivagninn Station: Rás 1 Date: 11. 07. 2020 Air time: 13:26 Interviewer: Fanney Benjamínsdóttir Duration: approximately 17…
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Learn about our TTS process as described by Atli Thor
At the end of June 2020, Atli Thor Sigurgeirsson went on the local Icelandic radio station Rás 2 to give an interview about the state of our text-to-speech synthesis and data collection process. As this was an interview with Síðdegisútvarpið the interview is in Icelandic. Description from Rúv: Við forvitnumst um nýjan talgervil sem er…
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Summer jobs at LVL
Automatic translatation from English to Icelandic below with [human notes]. In collaboration with Reykjavík University, LVL is looking to hire 10 students full-time over the summer. The duration is two months from the 10th of June and will consist, among other things, of gathering recordings for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-To-Speech (TTS) as well…
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