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19 May 2026

UI Science and Innovation Award

The VIT research team received the Science and Innovation Award from the University of Iceland in the Community category! We are truly grateful for the recognition and congratulate the other winners.

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24 February 2026

Opening Symposium of the Icelandic Language Biobank

A new collaboration framework lets the team pilot ALDA in more real-world settings and gain better insight into how the tool supports both users and professionals.

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30 November 2025

ALDA and the ILB presented at RaPID-6

Iris Edda Nowenstein was among the speakers at the RaPID-6 workshop during the LREC conference that took place in May. There, she presented both ALDA and the research project The Icelandic Language Biobank in the good company of other experts in clinical language technology. She was also part of a team that presented a poster at the main conference. The peer-reviewed articles behind the presentations can be found in the LREC conference proceedings.

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