The coordinator at the Language Technology Department, Iben Nyholm Debess, explained in the radio news why a centre for language technology is a crucial foundation for developing language technology in the Faroe Islands.
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The new Research Centre in Language Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands is now a reality. Work has been ongoing in the field of Faroese language technology through various projects in recent years, but now the activities are organized in a dedicated centre.
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The Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics NoDaLiDa was held in the Faroe Islands from May 22 to 24, 2023. The Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature at the University of the Faroe Islands organized the conference in collaboration with the board of NEALT – Northern European Association for Language Technology. The NoDaLiDa conference takes place every other year and has a history of almost 50 years. The fact that the conference was held in the Faroe Islands this time is
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The Ravnur Project group got the assignment to gather and create resources for a BLARK and to make Faroese speech recognition. The project started in 2019 and BLARK 1.0 was published on July 1st 2022. Language technology intertwines linguistics and IT, so linguists, students at the Faculty for Faroese and other assistants as well as IT workers joined forces to work on this project.
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