Background
Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur was born on June 1, 1955 in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland. Son of Rögnvaldur Gíslason and Sigríður Jónsdóttir.
Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur was born on June 1, 1955 in Sauðárkrókur, Iceland. Son of Rögnvaldur Gíslason and Sigríður Jónsdóttir.
Cand.mag., University Iceland, Reykjavík, 1976—1982.
He is the author of several prominent works on the Icelandic language, including Íslensk hljóðkerfisfræði (“Icelandic phonology”, 1993), Íslensk rímorðabók (“Icelandic rhyme dictionary”, 1989), and several textbooks for university and high school students. He is also a prominent Icelandic scholar in the field of natural language processing, having among other things co-authored the Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus.
Married Guðrún Ingólfsdóttir, October 18, 1985. 1 child Ingólfur Eiríksson.