Student Supervision
PhD students
- Jón Friðrik Daðason.
PhD project: Language representation models for low-resource languages.
- Steinþór Steingrímsson. Co-supervisor: Professor Andy Way.
PhD project: Effectively Aligning and Filtering Parallel Corpora under Sparse Data Conditions.
Graduate students - Theses/Projects
- Örvar Hafsteinn Kárason, M.Sc., January 2022, Reykjavik University.
Project (30 ECTS).
- Róbert Badí Baldursson, M.Sc., January 2022, Reykjavik University.
Thesis (60 ECTS).
- Benedikt Geir Jóhannesson, M.Sc., June 2022, Reykjavik University.
Thesis (60 ECTS). Entity Linking for Icelandic.
- Gunnar Pálsson, M.Sc., June 2021, Reykjavik University.
Project (30 ECTS). Adapting and improving a shallow parser.
- Tinna Þuríður Sigurðardóttir, M.Sc., June 2021, Reykjavik University.
Project (30 ECTS): Representing Icelandic in Corpora.
- Ásmundur Alma Guðjónsson, M.Sc., January 2021, Reykjavik University.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Named Entity Recognition for Icelandic: Comparing and combining different Machine Learning methods.
- Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir, M.Sc., June 2020, Reykjavik University.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Named Entity Recognition for Icelandic – annotated corpus and baselines.
- Hulda Óladóttir, (Co-supervisor: Professor Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson), M.Sc., September 2016, University of Iceland.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Upplýsingaútdráttur - Nýting upplýsingaramma til málmyndunar [Information Extraction].
- Karin Christiansen, M.Sc., June 2014, Reykjavik University.
Project (30 ECTS): Summarization of Icelandic texts.
- Guðmundur Örn Leifsson, M.Sc., September 2013, University of Iceland.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Intelligent Writing Support for Second Language Lerners of Icelandic using Web Services.
- Martha Dís Brandt, M.Sc., January 2011, Reykjavík University.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Developing an Icelandic to English Shallow Transfer Machine Translation System.
- Ida Kramarczyk, M.Sc., June 2009, Reykjavik University.
Thesis (60 ECTS): Improving the tagging accuracy of Icelandic text.
- Verena Henrich and Timo Reuter (co-supervision), M.Sc., March 2009, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt.
Thesis: LISGrammarChecker: Language Independent Statistical Grammar Checker.
Graduate students - Independent study
- Christopher Dörge and David Müller (exchange students), Fall 2013, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt.
Project: Intrinsic Plagiarism Detection.
- Hlynur Sigurþórsson, Fall 2010, Reykjavik University.
Project: Daemonizing and enhancing IceNLP for the purpose of machine translation.
- Andreas Völlger (exchange student), Fall 2010, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt.
Project: Tagging and parsing German using Spejd.
- Timo Reuter and Verena Henrich (exchange students), Fall 2008, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt.
Project: CombiTagger: A system for developing combined taggers.
Undergraduate students - Research theses
- Sigurjón Þorsteinsson and Svanhvít Lilja Ingólfsdóttir, B.Sc., January 2019, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: Named Entity Recogniser - An Icelandic prototype.
- Svavar K. Lúthersson, B.Sc., June 2010, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: Tagging and parsing a large corpus.
- Aðalsteinn Tryggvason, B.Sc., June 2009, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: Named Entity Recognition for Icelandic.
- Hlynur Sigurþórsson and Pétur Sigurðsson, B.Sc., June 2009, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: Using IceNLP in Computer-Assisted Language Learning.
- Kristjana Guðjónsdóttir, B.Sc., January 2009, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: A Prototype of an Icelandic Grammar Checker.
- Frank A. B. Cassata, B.Sc., June 2007, Reykjavik University.
Thesis: Automatic thesaurus extraction for Icelandic.
Undergraduate students - Independent Study / Research Opportunity
- Ólafur P. Geirsson, Guðmundur Harðarson, Guðmundur Þ. Guðmundsson, Spring 2014, Reykjavik University.
Project: Orðspor: Labeling named entities with computer games.
- Emmanuel Günther (exchange student), Fall 2012, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt.
Project: An Intelligent BOT.
- Ólafur Waage, Fall 2011, Reykjavik University.
Project: Continued development of Apertium-IceNLP: A rule-based Icelandic to English machine translation system.
- Jökull H. Yngvason, Fall 2009, Reykjavik University.
Project: Automatic extraction of verb subcategorization frames for Icelandic (only in Icelandic).
Undergraduate/gradudate students - The Icelandic Sudent Innovation Fund
- Gunnar Pálsson, Summer 2020, Reykjavik University.
Project: Pre-Nominal Adjective Order in Icelandic.
- Ólafur Páll Geirsson, Summer 2013, Reykjavik University.
Project: An Open-Source Language-Independent Question-Answering System.
- Ragnar L. Sigurðsson, Summer 2010, Reykjavik University.
Project: An improved shallow parser for Icelandic.
- Jökull H. Yngvason, Summer 2009, Reykjavik University.
Project: Developing a PoS-tagged corpus using existing tools.
- Anna M. Sigurðardóttir, Summer 2006, Reykjavik University.
Project: Utilisation of a large lexicon for tagging Icelandic text.