ICEMorph: People
ICEMorph is a second generation morphological analysis and look-up tool for the study of Old Icelandic / Old Norse, the most morphonologically complex of the Germanic
languages.
The analysis tool uses a second generation formal language, FM/Haskell, to tackle the problem of this complexity.
The look-up tool is based on two of the most important dictionaries for Old Icelandic / Old Norse study: Cleasby-Vigfusson
An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874), and Johan Fritzner's Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog ( 1883-1896).
In its pilot phase, the look-up tool is based on Zoega's subset of Cleasby-Vigfusson, and this dictionary supplies the lexical set for
the analysis tool.
Project Members
Timothy R. Tangherlini Timothy R. Tangherlini is a Professor in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA. He received his training in Old Norse and Old Icelandic at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. His earliest work on computation in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic literature focused on digital versions of standard edition saga texts. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he was part of a group at Berkeley that expanded the scope of “CREST” (Computer-Aided Research on Early Scandinavian Topics), that had begun exploring the use of computation to produce concordances of saga texts. In 2001, he began work with Kryztof Urban and Aurelijus Vijunas on designing ICEMorph, a morphological analyzer for Old Icelandic. He has held teaching positions at the University of California, Los Angeles, Harvard University, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Iceland. His research has been funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, The Henry R. Luce Foundation, the European Union, the Nordic Council of Ministers and the University of California. He can be reached via email. Aurelijus Vijunas Aurelijus Vijunas is an Asst. Professor at the National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan, where he teaches Indo-European studies. He holds a PhD in Indo-European studies from UCLA, and an MA in Grammar from the University of Iceland. His thesis, entitled “Þróun indóevrópska tvíhljóðsins *ei í germönsku og gildi þróunar germanskra tvíhljóða fyrir rannsóknir á hljóðvörpum” (“The Development of the Indo-European Diphthong *ei in Germanic, and the Value of the Development of Germanic Diphthongs for the Study of Umlaut”) is a fascinating exploration of umlaut and dipthong in Germanic and Indo-European. He holds a BA in Icelandic philology from the University of Iceland as well. Kryztof Urban Kryztof Urban is a senior researcher at FactSet. He recieved his PhD in Germanic Linguistics from UCLA in 2004, focusing on computation and pattern recognition. Past Members: David Gabriel worked on OCR and proofreading Zoega Alison Tara Walker worked on web-design for the project. |