--- title: "Stefán Ólafsson — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Stefán Ólafsson, Reykjavík University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-olafsson/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-olafsson/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stefán Ólafsson # Stefán Ólafsson Stefán Ólafsson has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Legal AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/); often with [Hinrik Hafsteinsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrik-hafsteinsson/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102715048) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3549-8705) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91287662) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102715048) · [34 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102715048) · [736 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102715048&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-olafsson/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12232](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12232) 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=Stef%C3%A1n+%C3%93lafsson) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stef%C3%A1n+%C3%93lafsson) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stef%C3%A1n+%C3%93lafsson) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stef%C3%A1n+%C3%93lafsson) ## Affiliations [🎓**Reykjavík University** Reykjavik · Iceland 2021–2026 · 9 papersEmployment since 2021*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/reykjavik-university/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2016–2025 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Law · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/law/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Physiology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/physiology/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-olafsson/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefan-olafsson/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Icelandic Language Biobank: Data Collection through a Clinical Analysis Platform](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nowenstein-2026-icelandic-language-biobank-data-collection/)** *(2026)* Language technology for people with speech and language disorders is growing fast. It includes tools that detect and track conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or ALS, and communication aids such as personalized speech recognition. Nearly all of these tools exist only for English and a few other well-resourced… 2. **[Aligning Language Models for Icelandic Legal Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dharson-2025-aligning-language-models-icelandic-legal/)** *(2025)* The paper asks whether preference-based alignment helps language models write summaries of Icelandic Supreme Court rulings that legal professionals find acceptable, compared with plain supervised fine-tuning. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Evaluating Icelandic Sentiment Analysis Models Trained on Translated Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.sigul-1.11/) Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yet**Ólafur A. Jóhannsson et al.*2024 · 1 citation* 2. **[The Icelandic Language Biobank: Data Collection through a Clinical Analysis Platform](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nowenstein-2026-icelandic-language-biobank-data-collection/) [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/)**Iris Nowenstein, Naizeth Núñez Macías, Gunnar Thor Örnólfsson, et al.*2026* 3. **[Aligning Language Models for Icelandic Legal Text Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dharson-2025-aligning-language-models-icelandic-legal/) [Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/)**Þórir Hrafn Harðarson, Hrafn Loftsson, Stefán Ólafsson*2025* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hinrik Hafsteinsson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrik-hafsteinsson/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/): [NoDaLiDa 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nodalida/2025/) - [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/): [Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments in cooperation with the MENTAL.ai consortium 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/rapid/2026/) - Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages @ LREC-COLING 2024 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026