NordForsk, the research organisation under the Nordic Council of Ministers, has in this round granted a total of DKK 3 million to Faroese projects. Of this, the largest grant goes to the Centre for Language Technology at the Faculty of Faroese at the University of the Faroe Islands. Barbara Scalvini and Iben Nyholm Debess, who are researchers at the Centre for Language Technology, receive around DKK 2.2 million for a project on the responsible use of [...]

Lately Barbara Scalvini has been popular in the Faroese media. The national radio recently did an interview with Barbara Scalvini about the University’s involvement in developing Faroese AI for machine translation and other purposes. The interview was broadcast in the news on Friday, 29 August. In the interview, Barbara explained that several parts of this work are already available

Føroyamál, together with other organizers, hosted Mother Tongue Day on March 25. This year's theme was Tað viti vitlíki, with a particular focus on the Faroese language and artificial intelligence. In this context, Iben Nyholm Debess from the Centre for Language Technology gave a presentation titled AI and Faroese: Preservation, Milestones, and Crossroads, which highlighted how language technology and AI can—and must [...]

The Research Council has granted funding for a new project aimed at developing machine translation between Faroese and English. The project is led by Barbara Scalvini, assistant professor of computer science at the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands. She is joined by Iben Nyholm Debess, a PhD Scholar at the Faculty of Faroese Language. Together, they are working at the Centre for Language Technology. An exciting