Abstract Since 1968 Basque has been immersed in a process of revitalisation that faced formidable obstacles. Nonetheless, significant progress made numerous areas. The Language Technology community widely accepts the standardised language and constructs efficacious LT tools. After thirty years collaborative work, research resulted state-of-the-art technology robust, broad-coverage NLP for Basqu...

This paper presents a set of experiments performed on parsing the Basque Dependency Treebank. We have applied feature propagation to dependency parsing, experimenting the propagation of several morphosyntactic feature values. In the experiments we have used the output of a parser to enrich the input of a second parser. Both parsers have been generated by Maltparser, a freely data-driven depende...

In this paper, we present the process in the construction of SF-EPEC, a 300,000-word corpus syntactically annotated that aims to be a Gold Standard for the surface syntactic processing of Basque. First, the tagset designed for this purpose is described; being Basque an agglutinative language, sometimes complex syntactic tags were needed. We also account for the different phases in the construct...

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11772-5000, USA Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439-4843, USA Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA Physikalisches Institut, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Department of Theoretical Physics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48080 Bilbao, S...

PhD Thesis in Computer Science written by Armando Suárez Cueto under the supervision of Dr. Manuel Palomar Sanz, (Univ. of Alicante), and German Rigau Claramunt (Univ. of Basque Country). The author was examined in June 28th, 2004 by the commitee formed by Dr. Llúıs Padró Cirera (Politechnic University of Cataluña) , Andrés Montoyo Guijarro (Univ. of Alicante), Eneko Agirre Bengoa(Univ. of Basq...

Our group participated in the Basque and English lexical sample tasks in Senseval-3. A language-specific feature set was defined for Basque. Four different learning algorithms were applied, and also a method that combined their outputs. Before submission, the performance of the methods was tested for each task on the Senseval-3 training data using cross validation. Finally, two systems were sub...

This project combines linguistic and statistical information to develop a term extraction tool for Basque. Being Basque an agglutinative and highly inflected language, the treatment of morphosyntactic information is vital. In addition, due to late unification process of the language, texts present more elevated term dispersion than in a highly normalized language. The result is a semiautomatic ...

Assimilation and coarticulation both involve extending the duration of some property or feature. The similarities between these phenomena can be seen by comparing Basque vowel raising with vowel -to -vowel coarticulation in a language like English. In Basque the low vowel Ial is raised to [el following a high vowel. This gives rise to alternations in the form of the definite suffix, I -a/ (de R...

In this paper we present the work carried out to deeply study the nature of determiner errors in written Basque. The collected error examples have led us to a more exhaustive analysis which has been essential for the automatic detection of the exhibited phenomena. The analyzed and stored data are necessary for the development of a grammar checker for Basque and Intelligent Computer-Assisted Lan...