Aðalsteinn Eyþórsson [Icelandic homepage]
Researcher at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Author of concordances to various Icelandic texts and formerly responsible for the Institute's text collection. Editor of ISLEX.

Albertsdóttir, Maren, see Maren Albertsdóttir

Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir [Icelandic homepage]
Graduate student in language technology at the University of Heidelberg. Wrote a Master's Thesis on automatic extraction of semantic relations from monolingual dictionaries.

Ari Arnalds
Electrical Engineer. Chairman of the Steering Committee of the LangTec Project, 2000-2004.

Arnalds, Ari, see Ari Arnalds

Arnar Þór Jensson
Electrical and Computer Engineer from the University of Iceland. Doctoral student at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Furui Laboratory. Works on speech recognition.

Arnór Guðmundsson
Director at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Responsible for the Ministry's LangTec Project, 2000-2004.

Ásta Svavarsdóttir [Homepage]
Associate Research Professor at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Project leader in the Icelandic part of the LEXIN Project. Member of the Project Committee for  A Tagged Corpus of Icelandic.

Auður Hauksdóttir [Danish homepage]
Associate Professor in Danish at the University of Iceland and Director of the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages. Leader of the CALL Network sponsored by the Nordic Language Technology Research Program.

Auður Þórunn Rögnvaldsdóttir
Computer Engineer at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Has worked on An Icelandic Grammatical Tagger and A Morphological Database of Icelandic and is now working on A Tagged Corpus of Icelandic.

Baldur Jónsson
Professor Emeritus at the University of Iceland and former Director of The Icelandic Language Institute. Pioneer in Icelandic Corpus Linguistics. Member of the Terminology Committe of The Icelandic Society for Information Processing.

Bjarki A. Brynjarsson
Ph.D. in Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Former Dean of the School of Computer Science at the Reykjavik University, now Senior Investment Officer at Askar Capital. Member of the Steering Committee of the LangTec Project, 2000-2004.

Bjarnadóttir, Kristín, see Kristín Bjarnadóttir

Björn Jónsson
MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Formerly CEO of Grunnur and a member of the Project Committee in the Hjal Project. Head of the IT Department of Landspítali University Hospital.

Björn Kristinsson [homepage]
BA in English and MA in Language Technology from the University of Iceland. Worked at Hex Software on the Hjal Project and the Ragga Project. Lives and works in Belgium.  Wrote a Master's Dissertation entitled Towards Speech Synthesis for Icelandic.

Blöndal, Thórunn, see Þórunn Blöndal

Briem, Stefán, see Stefán Briem

Brynjarsson, Bjarki A., see Bjarki A. Brynjarsson

Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson [Icelandic homepage]
Professor in Icelandic Language at the University of Iceland and Head of the MA Program in Language Technology. Icelandic representative in the Board of the Nordic Graduate School of Language Technology, NGSLT. Co-author of the Report on LT in Iceland. Member of the steering committee in several LT projects. Director of the ICLT.

Eythórsson, Adalsteinn, see Aðalsteinn Eyþórsson

Friðrik Skúlason
Computer scientist, owns and runs the software company Frisk Software International. Pioneer in Icelandic Language Technology. Author of the spell checker program Púki. Has worked on automatic morphological and syntactic  parsing of Icelandic texts.

Gíslason, Hjálmar, see Hjálmar Gíslason

Gudmundsson, Arnór, see Arnór Guðmundsson

Gudnason, Jón, see Jón Guðnason

Guðrún Magnúsdóttir [information]
Icelandic linguist working in Greece. Built the Educational Programme in Computational Linguistics at Göteborg University. Owns and runs the software company ESTeam AB, which works on several projects in the field of Machine Translation.

Gunnarsdóttir, Sigrún, see Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir

Hannesson, Heidar Jón, see Heiðar Jón Hannesson

Hauksdóttir, Audur, see Auður Hauksdóttir

Heiðar Jón Hannesson
Physicist and MBA at Viki ehf.  Icelandic representative in the EUROMAP Project.

Helga Waage [information]
M.AI. (Master of Artificial Intelligence) from the University of Pittsburgh. Founder and CTO at Hex Software. Project Leader in the Hjal Project. Works on various projects related to Human-Computer interaction.

Helgadóttir, Sigrún, see Sigrún Helgadóttir

Helgason, Pétur, see Pétur Helgason

Hjálmar Gíslason [homepage]
Founder of Spurl.net and author of the search engine Embla. Director of Product Development at Iceland Telecom. Has worked on LT project in cooperation with the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies, especially Web based Icelandic Inflections and Icelandic Text Screening.

Höskuldur Þráinsson [Icelandic homepage]
Professor in Icelandic Language at the University of Iceland. Project Leader in the development of the first Icelandic TTS system around 1990. Member of the Steering Committee of the LangTec Project, 2000-2004.

Hrafn Loftsson [homepage]
MSc in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University. Ph.D. in Language Technology from the University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science. Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science at  Reykjavik University. Has built a rule-based tagger for Icelandic and works on a shallow parser for Icelandic. Board member of the ICLT.

Jensson, Arnar Thór, see Arnar Þór Jensson

Jón Guðnason [homepage]
Electrical and Computer Engineer from the University of Iceland. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London, Communications and Signal Processing Group.

Jón Hilmar Jónsson [Icelandic homepage]
Research Professor at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Works on a database of Icelandic collocations and word combinations and an Icelandic Wordnet.

Jónsson, Baldur, see Baldur Jónsson

Jónsson, Björn, see Björn Jónsson

Jónsson, Jón Hilmar, see Jón Hilmar Jónsson

Jörgen Pind [homepage]
Professor in Psychology at the University of Iceland - formerly Director of the Institute of Lexicography. Pioneer in computer-assisted lexicography in Iceland.   Editor of the Frequency Dictionary of Icelandic (Íslensk orðtíðnibók).

Kaldalóns, Örn, see Örn Kaldalóns

Kristín Bjarnadóttir [Icelandic homepage]
Researcher at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Project Leader in A Morphological Database of Icelandic. Member of the Project Committee for A Tagged Corpus of Icelandic.

Kristinsson, Björn, see Björn Kristinsson

Laufey Leifsdóttir
BA in Icelandic and graduate student in Language Technology at the University of Iceland. Editor in the Dictionary Department at Edda Publishing.

Leifsdóttir, Laufey, see Laufey Leifsdóttir

Loftsson, Hrafn, see Hrafn Loftsson

Magnúsdóttir, Gudrún, see Guðrún Magnúsdóttir

Magnúsdóttir, Ragnheiður H., see Ragnheiður H. Magnúsdóttir

Magnússon, Matthías, see Matthías Magnússon

Maren Albertsdóttir
BA in Icelandic from the University of Iceland. Worked on automatic morphological and syntactic  parsing of Icelandic texts at Frisk Software International. Now law student at the University of Iceland.

Margrét Dóra Ragnarsdóttir [homepage]
MSc in Computer Science from the University of Iceland. Wrote a Master's Dissertation on the use of intelligent voice interface in air traffic control and has taught courses on  Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Iceland.

Matthías Magnússon
Owner of Alnet ehf. Has published a number of electronic dictionaries and runs the website ordabok.is. Works on developing translation software for translating from Icelandic to English.

Nikulásdóttir, Anna Björk, see Anna Björk Nikulásdóttir

Ólafsdóttir, Valdís, see Valdís Ólafsdóttir

Ólafsson, Rögnvaldur, see Rögnvaldur Ólafsson

Pétur Helgason [homepage]
Ph.D. in Phonetics from the University of Stockholm. Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University. Worked on the first Icelandic TTS system around 1990.

Pind, Jörgen, see Jörgen Pind

Ragnarsdóttir, Margrét Dóra, see Margrét Dóra Ragnarsdóttir

Ragnheiður H. Magnúsdóttir
Engineer, formerly at Iceland Telecom. Has worked on developing speech technology services. Organized the recordings of speech samples in the Hjal Project.

Rögnvaldsdóttir, Audur Thórunn, see Auður Þórunn Rögnvaldsdóttir

Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur, see Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson

Rögnvaldur Ólafsson [Icelandic homepage]
Associate Professor in Physics at the University of Iceland. Main author of the Report on LT in Iceland. Project Leader of the LangTec Project, 2000-2004.

Sigrún Gunnarsdóttir [information]
MS in Educational Technology from Purdue University and MS in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine. Former Project Manager at the Research Department at Iceland Telecom. She has been involved in many projects that deal with the human aspect of using information technology.

Sigrún Helgadóttir
MSc in Statistics from the University of Liverpool. Researcher at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Chairman of the Terminology Committe of The Icelandic Society for Information Processing. Project Leader in An Icelandic Grammatical TaggerA Tagged Corpus of Icelandic. Board member of the ICLT.

Sigurdsson, Thorgeir, see Þorgeir Sigurðsson

Skúlason, Fridrik, see Friðrik Skúlason

Stefán Briem [homepage]
Physicist, working freelance on Language Technology and translation. Has developed software for machine translation between English, Icelandic and Esperanto. Editor of the Dictionary of Computer Terms (Tölvuorðasafn). Co-author of the Frequency Dictionary of Icelandic (Íslensk orðtíðnibók) and wrote programs for preliminary analysis of its vocabulary.

Stefán Einar Stefánsson
Computer Scientist. Worked on automatic morphological and syntactic parsing of Icelandic texts at Frisk Software International.

Stefánsson, Stefán Einar, see Stefán Einar Stefánsson

Stefánsson, Thórarinn, see Þórarinn Stefánsson

Steingrímsson, Steinthór, see Steinþór Steingrímsson

Steinþór Steingrímsson
BA in Icelandic and BS in Computer Science from the University of Iceland. MSc in Language Technology from The University of Edinburgh.

Svavarsdóttir, Ásta, see Ásta Svavarsdóttir

Sæmundur E. Þorsteinsson [information]
Electrical Engineer from the University of Iceland and Dipl.Ing. from Technische Universität Darmstadt. Director of the Research Department at Iceland Telecom. Chairman of the Project Committe in the Hjal Project.

Thorsteinsson, Sæmundur E., see Sæmundur E. Þorsteinsson

Thráinsson, Höskuldur, see Höskuldur Þráinsson

Úlfarsdóttir, Thórdís, see Þórdís Úlfarsdóttir

Valdís Ólafsdóttir
BA in Icelandic and MA in Language Technology from the University of Iceland. Worked on the Hjal Project and wrote a Master's Dissertation on the processing of numbers and abbreviations in Icelandic TTS systems.

Waage, Helga, see Helga Waage

Þórarinn Stefánsson
Founder and CEO at Hex Software. Member of the Project Committee in the Hjal Project.

Þórdís Úlfarsdóttir
Researcher at the Department of Lexicography at the Árni Magnússon Institute of Icelandic Studies. Has worked on A Morphological Database of Icelandic and several lexicographic projects. Now editor of ISLEX and co-author of Icelandic Wordnet.

Þorgeir Sigurðsson
Electrical Engineer and Linguist. Worked at Icelandic Standards, mainly dealing with character set standards. Co-author of the Report on LT in Iceland.

Þórunn Blöndal [Icelandic homepage]
Assistant Professor in Icelandic at Iceland University of Education. Leader of the ÍS-TAL Project (corpus of spoken Icelandic). Participates in the Nordtalk Network sponsored by the Nordic Language Technology Research Program.

Örn Kaldalóns [Icelandic homepage]
Systems Analyst - Director of Icepro. Member of the Terminology Committe of The Icelandic Society for Information Processing.