Papers by Starkaður Barkarson
Evolving Large Text Corpora: Four Versions of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | The Icelandic Gigaword Corpus was first published in 2018 and has since grown to include more than 50 million words. |
| Approach: | They describe the evolution of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus in its first four years . they show how the corpus has grown almost 50% in size from the first version to the fourth . |
| Outcome: | The Gigaword corpus has grown 50% from its first version to its fourth version and is now available under permissive licenses. |
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. |
Facilitating Corpus Usage: Making Icelandic Corpora More Accessible for Researchers and Language Users (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Gigaword corpus is a large text corpus used in natural language processing . large corpora are needed to achieve better performance in the field of NLP . |
| Approach: | They propose a set of tools to facilitate the use of the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus . they provide n-grams based on the corpus, and a variety of pre-trained word embeddings models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed tools facilitate the use of the Icelandic Gigaword corpus in the field of Natural Language Processing and other fields. |