SIG Teaching: Reykjavik

We have already established cooperation between the Department of Icelandic Language at the University of Iceland, the School of Computer Science at Reykjavík University, and the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. The two universities plan to start a joint Master’s program in Language Technology next fall. It is clear that we would benefit greatly from cooperation with prominent Nordic universities.

Areas of expertise

• Tagging and shallow parsing (Hrafn Loftsson)
• Wordnets and semantic processing (Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir)
• Tagging with statistical and machine learning methods (Sigrún Helgadóttir)
• Experience in building (a considerable part of) a BLARK for a small language in a relatively short time
• Experience in working with private companies on the development of Language Technology products, such as an isolated word recognizer and a text-to-speech system for Icelandic.
• We have been working on several projects during the last 3-4 years: data-driven tagger, rule-based tagger, shallow parser, balanced corpus, named entity recognizer, morphological database, context-sensitive spell checker, multilingual online dictionary.

Distant learning experience and practice

• Experience in cooperation on language technology research and teaching between universities
• Experience in interdisciplinary cooperation between a language department and a computer science department
• Experience in distance teaching using learning environments like Moodle and videoconferencing

Courses offered

• tagging and parsing (8 ECTS)
• computational lexicography and wordnets (5 ECTS)
• multi-modal natural dialogue (8 ECTS)
• corpus linguistics (5 ECTS)

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