1.12.2004
Conference on Icelandic Language Technology

The Icelandic LangTec Project, which the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture launched in 2001, will officially  end by the end of this year, even though some of the projects that it has funded are still ongoing. On this occasion, the steering committee of the project organized a conference on Icelandic Language Technology. Six projects that have been funded by the LangTec project were presented at the conference, which was held in Salurinn in Kópavogur on November 30th. The conference was well attended and the talks were met with great interest. Icelandic language technology has gained considerable ground in the last couple of years, mostly due to the new funding possibilities created by the LangTec project.

The talks given at the conference were published in a booklet which also contains an address by the Minister of Education, Science and Culture, Ms Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, and an overview of the project by the project leader, Rögnvaldur Ólafsson Ph.D. The booklet is in Icelandic, and can be read here as a whole. Individual presentations can also be found under Articles on Icelandic LT.