Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023
This addresses the problem of language preservation and digital usability for Icelandic speakers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing national programs and historical efforts.
The paper describes a five-year national program to develop open-source language resources and software for Icelandic, aiming to make it usable in digital communication through projects like speech recognition, machine translation, and grammar checking.
In this paper, we describe a new national language technology programme for Icelandic. The programme, which spans a period of five years, aims at making Icelandic usable in communication and interactions in the digital world, by developing accessible, open-source language resources and software. The research and development work within the programme is carried out by a consortium of universities, institutions, and private companies, with a strong emphasis on cooperation between academia and industries. Five core projects will be the main content of the programme: language resources, speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, and spell and grammar checking. We also describe other national language technology programmes and give an overview over the history of language technology in Iceland.