🧑‍🔬 Iben Nyholm Debess

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of the Faroe IslandsTórshavn · Faroe Islands2022–2026 · 5 paperscurrent🎓Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielKiel · Germany2019 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Family Matters: Language Transfer and Merging for Adapting Small LLMs to Faroese (2025 · 2 citations)
   Small generative models trained mostly on English handle Faroese poorly. Faroese has little text (about 95 million words in deduplicated FineWeb-2) and almost no evaluation data. The authors start from English-only base models and first continue pre-training them on a related Scandinavian language. In some settings…
2. BRAGD: Constrained Multi-Label POS Tagging for Faroese (2026)
   Faroese is a morphologically rich North Germanic language with about 50,000 speakers and little annotated data.
3. Entity Linking for Faroese Using Large Language Models with Web Search (2026)
   This work tackles entity linking (EL) for Faroese, a North Germanic language with roughly 70,000 speakers that had no prior EL research or dedicated candidate-generation and disambiguation tools.

All works

10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Creating a Basic Language Resource Kit for Faroese ↗Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetAnnika Simonsen et al.2022 · 11 citations
2. Evaluating the Potential of Language-family-specific Generative Models for Low-resource Data Augmentation: A Faroese Case Study ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetBarbara Scalvini, Iben Nyholm Debess2024 · 7 citations
3. What's Wrong With This Translation? Simplifying Error Annotation For Crowd Evaluation ↗Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025) · no summary yetIben Nyholm Debess, Alina Karakanta, Barbara Scalvini2025 · 3 citations
4. Good or Bad News? Exploring GPT-4 for Sentiment Analysis for Faroese on a Public News Corpora ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetIben Nyholm Debess, Annika Simonsen, Hafsteinn Einarsson2024 · 3 citations
5. Family Matters: Language Transfer and Merging for Adapting Small LLMs to FaroesearXiv:2510.00810Jenny Kunz, Iben Nyholm Debess, Annika Simonsen2025 · 2 citations
6. Prompt Engineering Enhances Faroese MT, but Only Humans Can Tell ↗Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) · no summary yetBarbara Scalvini et al.2025 · 2 citations
7. Standardising Pronunciation for a Grapheme-to-Phoneme Converter for Faroese ↗Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) · no summary yetSandra Lamhauge et al.2023 · 1 citation
8. BRAGD: Constrained Multi-Label POS Tagging for FaroeseLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Annika Simonsen, Barbara Scalvini, Uni Johannesen, et al.2026
9. Entity Linking for Faroese Using Large Language Models with Web SearchWorkshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language ModelsAnnika Simonsen, Iben Nyholm Debess, Hafsteinn Einarsson2026
10. Of Words and Meaning: A Grammatical and Semantic Benchmark for Faroese LLM Understanding ↗Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetIben Nyholm Debess, Barbara Scalvini, Bolette Pedersen2026

🤝 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Annika Simonsen ×3
• Hafsteinn Einarsson ×2
• Jenny Kunz

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) ×3: LREC 2026
• Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) ×2
• Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models: Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models 2026
• Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025)
• Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)
• Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 28 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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