In this paper, we describe a new national language technology programme for Icelandic.
The programme, which spans a period of five years, aims at making Icelandic usable in …

In this paper we describe how a fairly new CLARIN member is building a broad collection of
national language resources for use in language technology (LT). As a CLARIN C-centre …

Text normalization is an important part of many natural language applications, in particular
for text-to-speech systems. Text normalization poses special challenges for highly inflected …

The dissertation addresses informal Icelandic writing practices in online communication,
often referred to as computer-mediated communication (CMC). Specifically, the dissertation …

There is no natural way to acquire normalized data so we try to create good enough data to
attempt more advanced methods for text normalization. We manually annotated the first …

Atli Þór Sigurgeirsson, atlithors@ ru. is, Reykjavik University Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson,
gunnarthor@ hi. is, Árni Magnússon institute of Icelandic studies Dr. Jón Guðnason, jg@ ru …

Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any
system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; ie converting written text into …

Pronunciation dictionaries allow computational modelling of the pronunciation of words in a
certain language and are widely used in speech technologies, especially in the fields of …

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly used to transcribe text for
publication or official uses. However, even the best ASR systems make mistakes that can …

Icelandic mixed-voice choral singing has a short history compared to other Western
European countries as singing in more than two voice parts was not commonplace until the …