Papers by Jón Guðnason
Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023 (2020.lrec-1)
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Anna Nikulásdóttir, Jón Guðnason, Anton Karl Ingason, Hrafn Loftsson, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, Steinþór Steingrímsson
| Challenge: | a new national language technology programme for Icelandic is described . the programme aims to make Icelandic usable in communication and interactions in the digital world . |
| Approach: | They describe a new national language technology programme for Icelandic . the programme aims to make Icelandic usable in communication and interactions in the digital world . |
| Outcome: | The proposed programme aims to make Icelandic usable in communication and interactions in the digital world. |
Samrómur: Crowd-sourcing large amounts of data (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Samrómur is the largest prompted speech collection effort for Icelandic so far and verification is as monumental as the collection itself. |
| Approach: | They propose to collect large and diverse corpus for automatic speech recognition and similar tools using crowd-sourced donations. |
| Outcome: | The collected utterances are based on the Mozilla Common Voice platform and are available for free on the Samrómur collection platform. |
Risamálheild: A Very Large Icelandic Text Corpus (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | The corpus contains more than one billion running words from mostly contemporary texts. |
| Approach: | They present the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (IGC) with minimal work and resources. |
| Outcome: | The Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (IGC) contains more than one billion running words from mostly contemporary texts. |
Samrómur Children: An Icelandic Speech Corpus (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Samrómur Children contains 131 hours of read speech from Icelandic children aged between 4 to 17 years. |
| Approach: | They propose to build a large-scale speech corpus for automatic speech recognition for Icelandic. |
| Outcome: | The corpus contains 131 hours of read speech from Icelandic children aged 4 to 17 years . the goal of the project is to make Icelandic available in language-technology applications . |
Open ASR for Icelandic: Resources and a Baseline System (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing language resources are not sufficient for less-resourced languages, but a system with sufficient resources is needed. |
| Approach: | They describe available language resources and their preparation for use in a large vocabulary speech recognition system for Icelandic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system improves on acoustic training sets and a speech corpus with a pronunciation dictionary. |