Hákon Hákonarson (scientist)

Hákon Hákonarson (born circa 1970s) is an Icelandic scientist specializing in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). He is known for his research contributions to the areas of machine translation, text simplification, and Icelandic language technology.

Hákonarson's work has focused significantly on the challenges posed by the complex morphology and syntax of the Icelandic language for NLP applications. He has been involved in projects aiming to develop resources and tools to improve the performance of NLP systems on Icelandic text data. His research often involves statistical methods and machine learning techniques applied to large corpora of Icelandic text.

He has held research positions at various academic institutions, including but not limited to the University of Iceland. His publications can be found in journals and conference proceedings related to computational linguistics and NLP.