Iben Nyholm Debess is a linguist and PhD Fellow at the Language Technology Centre at the Faculty of Language and Literature (Føroyamálsdeildin). Iben currently does research in language technology for Faroese language.

Prior to her current position (2023-), Iben was employed as a Research Assistant at the language department at UFI, and Iben has previously worked with language technology and data development (2019-2022) and corpus management and linguistic analysis in the fields of sociolinguistics and bilingualism (2012-2018).

Iben's work in language technology includes a project developing data sets for Faroese ASR, as well as a Faroese grapheme-to-phoneme tool (G2P), and developing data sets for sentiment analysis and machine translation. Iben is undertaking a PhD project in evaluation benchmarks in Faroese. 

Iben was the local organizer of the large Nordic conference in language technology, NoDaLiDa, held in Tórshavn May 2023. 

She has teaching experience in Sociophonetic Fieldwork, Faroese Phonetics and Phonology, and organises a summer course in Faroese language for Nordic language students.

Iben is head of the Language Commitee at the University of the Faroe Islands.

Language technology, Faroese language, NLP, Evaluation, Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis, Semantic Textual Similarity, 

Phonetics, Syntax, Data management

- Sociophonetic Fieldwork (2021)

- Faroese phonetics and phonology, focusing on Second Language Aquisition (2023)

- Organising an annual summer course in Faroese language for Nordic language students