Icelandic linguist working on DM and NLP

My name is Anton Karl Ingason and I am an assistant professor (lektor) of Linguistics and Language Technology at the University of Iceland. I work on the realization of morphemes at the interfaces of syntax with interpretation and sound in the Distributed Morphology framework. I also work on language technology; in particular, I am one of the authors of the Icelandic treebank, IcePaHC. IcePaHC can be queried online at treebankstudio.org.

Recent and upcoming events

The team behind the Icelandic Language Technology Programme of the Government of Iceland, of which I am a member, will be presenting an overview of the project at LREC 2020 in France.

Lilja Björk Stefánsdóttir and I recently presented a paper at the CLARIN 2019 conference in Leipzig. The paper describes how we detect lifespan change and style shift in parliament speeches by the Icelandic politician Steingrímur J. Sigfússon.

At LREC 2020, Hildur Jónsdóttir and I will be presenting work on Parallel Universal Dependencies for Icelandic. This is the first parallel treebank for Icelandic.

In February 2020, Steinunn Rut Friðriksdóttir and I will be presenting a paper on disambiguating confusion sets in a language with rich morphology at ICAART 12 (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence).

Research interests

  • Distributed Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Syntax-Semantics Interface
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Language Technology
  • Icelandic Language

Academic positions

  • present2017

    Assistant Professor (lektor)

    University of Iceland

  • 20162016

    Postdoc

    University of Iceland

    Education

    • PhD 2016

      Linguistics

      University of Pennsylvania

    • BA 2009

      Linguistics and Icelandic Studies

      University of Iceland

    Selected publications

    Oxford University Press: Cover of collection of articles on Morphology

    Attributive compounds

    Book ChapterPaper
    Anton Karl Ingason and Einar Freyr Sigurðsson
    Forthcoming, 2020, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology. Rochelle Lieber (ed. in chief). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [PDF]
    Publication year: 2020

    Disambiguating Confusion Sets in a Language with Rich Morphology

    PaperProceedings
    Steinunn Rut Friðriksdóttir and Anton Karl Ingason
    2020. Proceedings of ICAART 12 (International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence). [PDF]
    Publication year: 2020

    Featural dynamics in morphosyntactic change

    Book ChapterPaper
    Iris Edda Nowenstein and Anton Karl Ingason
    Forthcoming. In Syntactic features and the limits of syntactic change. Jóhannes G. Jónsson and Thórhallur Eythórsson (eds.) Oxford University Press. [PDF]
    Publication year: 2020

    Icelandic case-marked CP

    Journal ArticlePaper
    Anton Karl Ingason
    2018. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 63,3:444-453. [PDF]
    Publication year: 2018

    Clause bounded movement: Stylistic fronting and phase theory

    Journal ArticlePaper
    Anton Karl Ingason and Jim Wood
    2017. Clause bounded movement: Stylistic fronting and phase theory. Linguistic Inquiry 48,3:513–527. [PDF]
    Publication year: 2017

    Context updates are hierarchical

    Journal ArticlePaper
    Anton Karl Ingason
    2016. Glossa, 1(1):37. [PDF]
    Publication year: 2016

    Various work-related photos

    Office location

     

    My office is on the forth floor of the building Árnagarður on the campus of the University of Iceland. The building is within walking distance of downtown as well as the BSÍ bus terminal if you are arriving from the airport.

    Contact information

    Email: antoni@hi.is

    Mailing Address:
    University of Iceland
    Gimli Service Desk, Box 211
    Sæmundargötu 2
    101 Reykjavík
    Iceland