The 4th of August 2011, Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson died in a accident. Gunnar Hrafn was not only a splendid scientist, a helpful colleague and a cherished member of the ScanDiaSyn network (and later on also N'CLAV), he was also one of the most caring and thoughtful people I have made friends with during my professional life. All who knew Gunnar will miss him immensely and, when sorrow has faded, remember him with great gratitude.
Øystein Vangsnes has written some words in his memory at the blog http://www.forskning.no. Please follow this link.
/Maia Andréasson
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Available for download: The Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus, IcePaHC 0.4
Available: IcePaHC 0.4 (now includes a visual Windows version)
IcePaHC 0.4, the latest version of the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus, is now available for download:
- 440.000 words total, from every century between the 12th and the 19th centuries inclusive annotated for phrase structure, part-of-speech-tagged and lemmatized
- An optional easy-to-install visual user interface for Windows
- LGPL license: You are free to copy, modify and redistribute the corpus for research and/or profit
University of Iceland
The project is funded by the following grants:
- Icelandic Research Fund (RANNÍS), grant nr. 090662011,"Viable Language Technology beyond English – Icelandic as a test case".
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP), grant #OISE-0853114, "Evolution of Language Systems: a comparative study of grammatical change in Icelandic and English".
/Anton Karl Ingason
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IcePaHC 0.4, íslenski trjábankinn (nú með Windows útgáfu)
IcePaHC 0.4, nýjasta útgáfa íslenska trjábankans, er komin út:
- Samtals 440.000 orð frá öllum öldum frá og með 12. öld til og með 19. öld, sem búið er að greina setningafræðilega, marka og lemma
- Einföld Windows uppsetning á myndrænu notandaviðmóti
- LGPL leyfi: Notendur geta afritað málheildina, breytt henni og endurútgefið vegna rannsókna og/eða í hagnaðarskyni
Verkefnið er styrkt af:
- RANNÍS, styrk nr. 090662011, "Hagkvæm máltækni utan ensku - íslenska tilraunin".
- U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Fellowship Program (IRFP), styrk #OISE-0853114, "Evolution of Language Systems: a comparative study of grammatical change in Icelandic and English".
/Anton Karl Ingason
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Good news from the Oslo-group
The prize is NOK 100 000 and will be given to Opsahl at an award ceremony at the
Signe Laake has received a doctoral research fellowship at the
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
N'CLAV/ScanDiaSyn Grand Meeting in Tromsø
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| Sommarøy Arctic Hotel Photo: Maia Andréasson |
The first N'CLAV Grand Meeting that also coincides with the last ScanDiaSyn Grand Meeting has taken place at Sommarøya Arctic Hotel, about one hour's drive from Tromsø, Norway. During three days we have listened to interesting and intriguing talks and we have also had the opportunity to spend time together with fellow linguists of the two networks, the NORMS network and the international partners of ScanDiaSyn.
Four invited speakers gave talks during the meeting. Monday afternoon Bruce Morén, CASTL/University of Tromsø, gave a talk on the saami languages, encouraging us to study and participate in documentation of these endangered languages that are so close at hand.
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| The midnight sun. Photo: Maia Andréasson |
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| Going very fast in a very small boat. Photo: Maia Andréasson |
In and around the hotel some went climbing in the hills, while others preferred to enjoy the hot tubs. A very few dared to dip their feet in the ocean and one or two even took a swim in the icing cold water.
Wednesday morning invited speaker Helge Sandøy, University of Bergen, stressed the necessity of including both an analysis of internal factors (i.e. structural linguistics) and external factors (i.e. sociolinguistics) when aiming to study language faculty and specific linguistic changes.
After lunch Hans Bennis, Meertens Instituut, chaired a two hour discussion on data sharing. In his introduction, Hans Bennis pointed on the necessity of having an attitude where sharing data is the default situation. After brief presentations from Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Helge Sandøy, Elisabet Engdahl, Lisa Södergård and Sjef Barbiers a discussion on problems and opportunities took place.
During the data sharing discussion, Anton Karl Ingason presented one extreme variant of data sharing within the work on the Icelandic tree-bank (www.linguist.is/wiki/Main_Page) where everything that is done is available to the public, even during the different stages in the process of building the tree-bank. On the other extreme, Janne-Bondi Johannesson referred to an data collection where all the data were to be destroyed as soon as the research was over.
During the data sharing discussion, Anton Karl Ingason presented one extreme variant of data sharing within the work on the Icelandic tree-bank (www.linguist.is/wiki/Main_Page) where everything that is done is available to the public, even during the different stages in the process of building the tree-bank. On the other extreme, Janne-Bondi Johannesson referred to an data collection where all the data were to be destroyed as soon as the research was over.
Handouts, presentations and photos from the grand meeting will be available on the conference website: http://uit.no/scandiasyn/sommaroya/.
/Maia Andréasson
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