Category: News
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TTS, Language Technology, Kvistur, and Samrómur papers published but no conferences to attend
Sjá íslenska þýðingu neðar This is a positive but somewhat sad week for LVL. Many LVL members were going to go to Marseille, France this week to attend Language Resources & Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2020 and the joint Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages and Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU-CCURL) 2020 Workshop. Once…
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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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Like our Samrómur Facebook page
We now have a Facebook page for our spoken Icelandic collection efforts, Samrómur. We’re working on enabling school children to also participate. Follow Samrómur to be told when that platform goes live: https://www.facebook.com/samromur/
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First milestone in the Language Technology for Icelandic project
Last week we celebrated achieving the first milestone in the Language Technology for Icelandic project with a cake! After a lot of hard work the past few months we achieved the first milestone in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Machine Translation (MT). In ASR, the focus has mostly been on data creating and gathering. 55,000 utterances…
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2019 Rannis Grants
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…
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Eydís has successfully defended her PhD thesis!
We are pleased to announce that Eydís has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Cognitive workload classification with psychophysiological signals for monitoring in safety critical situations” on 18th of January. Over the past few years, Eydís has worked on a dissertation studying the effect an increased cognitive workload has on acoustic and cardiovascular signals.…
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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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Researchers’ Night
This Friday is Researchers’ Night (Vísindavaka Rannís 2018). It is an all ages event on the 28th of September, 2018 from 16:30 – 22:00 at Laugardalshöllin, Reykjavik. We will be there with Reykjavik University demonstrating the possibilities of speech with tech: evaluating collected speech data (Eyra), testing the accuracy of an automatic speech recognizer(ASR) –…
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Student Projects Available
For the students of Reykjavik University or summer exchange students, we now have a list of student projects available. They are on https://lvl.ru.is/student-projects/ or available from the Menu of the LVL website as Student Projects. They range from straight forward to difficult and are suitable for undergraduate final projects, Masters students, and PhD students. If you…
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Using language technology to assist the hard of hearing
The Nordic association of the hard of hearing (Nordiska Hörselskadades Samarbetskommitté, NHS) had a seminar at Hotel Selfoss last week. On Friday, Anna gave a talk there on how language technology might assist people hard of hearing to communicate and access information in a predominately hearing world. Automatic transcription of live communication and automatic caption…
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