Year | Sponsor | Project name | Project manager | Co-Applicants/Collaborators | Duration | Grant |
2023 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | Question Answering: An app and a machine learning model | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Eric Nyberg and Njáll Skarphéðinsson, Carnegie Mellon University | 3 months | 3,060,000 ISK |
2021 | The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology | Automatic Entity Linking for Icelandic | Ólafur Páll Geirsson, Snjallgögn ehf. | Snjallgögn ehf.; Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Hafsteinn Einarsson, University of Iceland | 3 years | 69 million ISK |
2021 | The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology | Using Machine Learning Models for Clinical Diagnoses | Emil Lárus Sigurðarson, Primary Health Care service of the Capital Area (PHCCA) | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Steindór Oddur Ellertsson, PHCCA | 18 months | 36.6 million ISK |
2021 | The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology | Spoken Dialogue Framework for Icelandic | Hannes H. Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavik University (RU) | Hrafn Loftsson, Jón Guðnason, RU; Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir, Grammatek ehf.; Eydís Huld Magnúsdóttir, Tiro ehf.; Já ehf.; Akraneskaupstaður | 2 years | 70 million ISK |
2021 | CEF-Telecom | National Language Technology Platform (NLTP) | Tilde (Latvia) | Reykjavik University (Iceland), Culture Information Systems Centre (Latvia), Malta Information Technology Agency, Office of the State Advocate (Malta), University of Malta, University of Tartu (Estonia), Central State Office for the Development of Digital Society (Croatia), University of Zagreb (Croatia) | 2 years | 796,000 EUR |
2021 | CEF-Telecom | Microservices at your service: bridging the gap between NLP research and industry | Lingsoft (Finland) | Reykjavik University (Iceland), University of Tartu (Estonia), Gradient (Spain) | 2 years | 553,000 EUR |
2020 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | Automatic topic classification of Icelandic texts | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, Miðeind ehf. | 3 months | 900,000 ISK |
2020 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | Pre-nominal adjective order in Icelandic | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | | 3 months | 900,000 ISK |
2019 | Almannarómur: Language Technology Programme for Icelandic | Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Machine Translation, Grammar Checking, Tools and Resources | Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir, Grammatek | SÍM (Samstarf um íslenska máltækni) | 5 years | |
2019 | The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology | Automatic Text Summarization for Icelandic | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Morgunblaðið, mbl.is | 10 months | 11.3 million ISK |
2019 | The Strategic Research and Development Programme for Language Technology | Named Entity Recognition for Icelandic | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | The Icelandic Stock Exchange | 1 year | 8.4 million ISK |
2013 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | An Open-Source Language-Independent Question-Answering System | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Jón Gunnar Þorsteinsson, University of Iceland | 3 months | 340,000 ISK |
2011 | NordPlus Sprog | A System Architecture for Intelligent CALL | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg; Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, University of Iceland | 2 years | 38,500 EUR |
2010 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | A gold standard for Icelandic | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies | 3 months | 420,000 ISK |
2010 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | An improved shallow parser for Icelandic text | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland; Jón Eðvald Vignisson, CLARA | 3 months | 280,000 ISK |
2009 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | Tagging and correcting a new corpus | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies; Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | 3 months | 280,000 ISK |
2009 | The Icelandic Centre for Research (Grant of Excellence) | Viable Language Technology Beyond English - Icelandic as a Test Case | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Matthew J. Whelpton, University of Iceland; Kristín Bjarnadóttir, The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies; Anthony Kroch and Joel Wallenberg, University of Pennsylvania; Mikel L. Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant | 3 years | 45 million ISK |
2007 | The Icelandic Centre for Research | Improved tagging accuracy of Icelandic text | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland; Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland | 2 years | 3.1 million ISK |
2007 | The Icelandic Centre for Research | Context-sensitive spell checking | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland | 2 years | 3.1 million ISK |
2006 | The Icelandic Centre for Research | Shallow Parsing of Icelandic text | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland | 1 year | 3.8 million ISK |
2006 | University of Iceland | Context sensitive spelling correction | Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, University of Iceland | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University; Sigrún Helgadóttir, The Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland | First prize in a competition | 500,000 ISK |
2006 | The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund | Utilisation of a large lexicon for tagging Icelandic text | Hrafn Loftsson, Reykjavik University | Kristín Bjarnadóttir, The Institute of Lexicography, University of Iceland | 3 months | 220,000 ISK |