This paper presents a free (or open-source) rule-based machine translation system between Basque and Spanish, based on the Apertium machine translation platform aimed at assimilation, that is, as a help for the understanding of texts written in Basque. The development process and current status are described and an evaluation is given of the utility of the output.

V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, and P. M. Echenique Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, 4, 20018 San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Country, Spain Departamento de Fı́sica de Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias Quı́micas, UPV/EHU, Apdo. 1072, 20080 San Sebastián/Donostia, Basque Country, Spain ~Received 14 July 2003; published 21 November 2...

The aim of the present typological study of the Basque language based on the frequency of occurrence of consonants is to compare its sound chain to sound chains of various world languages. Then, one can construct typological distances between Basque and other world languages. The structure of the frequency of occurrence of consonants in the speech sound chain is a good clue of understanding the...

ETHNOBOTANICAL RELEVANCE Previous research suggests that the use of medicinal plants by a given group is mainly driven by biological variables such as the chemical composition or the ecological distribution of plants. However, other studies highlight the importance of cultural aspects such as the curative meaning given to a plant, beliefs, religion or the historical context. Such aspects could ...

J. S. Dolado, V. M. Silkin, M. A. Cazalilla, A. Rubio, and P. M. Echenique Materialen Fisika Saila, Kimika Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 1072 Posta kutxatila, 20080 Donostia, Basque Country, Spain and Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Donostia, Basque Country, Spain Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912-1843 La...

This paper presents the current status of development of a finite state transducer grammar for the verbal-chain transfer module in Matxin, a Rule Based Machine Translation system between Spanish and Basque. Due to the distance between Spanish and Basque, the verbal-chain transfer is a very complex module in the overall system. The grammar is compiled with foma, an open-source finitestate toolki...

This paper presents IDAZKIDE, a prototype of an intelligent language learning environment (ICALL) for learners of Basque. The philosophy of the system is to make different Natural Language Processing tools simultaneously accessible to students to help them (mainly at the morphological level) to write in Basque, as well as to give advice, taking into account some characteristics of the student g...