--- title: "Iben Nyholm Debess — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Iben Nyholm Debess, University of the Faroe Islands: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Iben Nyholm Debess # Iben Nyholm Debess Iben Nyholm Debess has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Annika Simonsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annika-simonsen/), [Hafsteinn Einarsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hafsteinn-einarsson/), [Jenny Kunz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jenny-kunz/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076535318) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076535318) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076535318) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076535318&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 28 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11070](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/111/#star-11070) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Iben+Nyholm+Debess) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Iben+Nyholm+Debess) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Iben+Nyholm+Debess) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Iben+Nyholm+Debess) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of the Faroe Islands** Tórshavn · Faroe Islands 2022–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-faroe-islands/) · [🎓**Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel** Kiel · Germany 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/christian-albrechts-universitat-zu-kiel/) 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. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Part-of-speech tagging · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Family Matters: Language Transfer and Merging for Adapting Small LLMs to Faroese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kunz-2025-family-matters-language-transfer-merging/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simonsen-2026-bragd-constrained-multi-label-pos/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simonsen-2026-entity-linking-faroese-large-language/)** *(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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.495/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Annika 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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.576/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Barbara Scalvini, Iben Nyholm Debess*2024 · 7 citations* 3. **[What's Wrong With This Translation? Simplifying Error Annotation For Crowd Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.nbreal-1.3/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL 2025) · no summary yet**Iben Nyholm Debess, Alina Karakanta, Barbara Scalvini*2025 · 3 citations* 4. **[Good or Bad News? Exploring GPT-4 for Sentiment Analysis for Faroese on a Public News Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.690/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Iben Nyholm Debess, Annika Simonsen, Hafsteinn Einarsson*2024 · 3 citations* 5. [**Family Matters: Language Transfer and Merging for Adapting Small LLMs to Faroese arXiv:2510.00810**Jenny Kunz, Iben Nyholm Debess, Annika Simonsen*2025 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kunz-2025-family-matters-language-transfer-merging/) 6. **[Prompt Engineering Enhances Faroese MT, but Only Humans Can Tell ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.nodalida-1.63/) Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025) · no summary yet**Barbara Scalvini et al.*2025 · 2 citations* 7. **[Standardising Pronunciation for a Grapheme-to-Phoneme Converter for Faroese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.nodalida-1.32/) Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) · no summary yet**Sandra Lamhauge et al.*2023 · 1 citation* 8. **[BRAGD: Constrained Multi-Label POS Tagging for Faroese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simonsen-2026-bragd-constrained-multi-label-pos/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Annika Simonsen, Barbara Scalvini, Uni Johannesen, et al.*2026* 9. **[Entity Linking for Faroese Using Large Language Models with Web Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simonsen-2026-entity-linking-faroese-large-language/) [Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/resourceful/)**Annika Simonsen, Iben Nyholm Debess, Hafsteinn Einarsson*2026* 10. **[Of Words and Meaning: A Grammatical and Semantic Benchmark for Faroese LLM Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.354/) Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Iben Nyholm Debess, Barbara Scalvini, Bolette Pedersen*2026* ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Annika Simonsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/annika-simonsen/) ×3 - [Hafsteinn Einarsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hafsteinn-einarsson/) ×2 - [Jenny Kunz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/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)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/) ×3: [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/resourceful/): [Workshop on the Role of Resources in the Age of Large Language Models 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/resourceful/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 →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iben-nyholm-debess/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026