Eirikur Rognvaldsson

Eirikur Rognvaldsson (born June 1, 1955, in Sauðarkrokur, Iceland) is an Icelandic linguist and professor of Icelandic at the University of Iceland. He is the author of several prominent works on the Icelandic language, including Islensk hljoðkerfisfraeði (“Icelandic phonology”, 1993), Islensk rimorðabok (“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.