Simone Pigolotti, Massimo Cencini, Daniel Molina, Miguel A. Muñoz 1 Biological Complexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495. 2 Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Rome, Italy. 3 BCAM Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Alameda de Mazarredo 14, E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Count...

1. Assimilation and coarticulation 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 and vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in a language like English. In Basque the low vowel /a/ is raised to [e] following a high vowel. This gives rise to alternations in the form of ...

The article is devoted to an ambiguous and problematic issue related Ukrainian- Basque linguistic ties. By lexical parallels (they can also be called conditional isoglosses) the author of this study means hypothetical borrowings-internationalisms (Europeanisms), presumably origin. Examples basquisms in Ukrainian language (багнет, більярд, анчоус, i.e. ʽbayonet, billiard, anchovy’) have been giv...

Abstract It is well established that early bilinguals who speak languages differ in the phonetic implementation of voicing contrast have language-specific systems. This study investigates separation two true-voicing languages, Basque and Spanish. We also describe system Gipuzkoan Spanish Basque, which closest dialect to Standard it has not yet been investigated experimentally. Twenty Basque-Spa...

This article describes the participation of the joint Elhuyar-IXA group in the ResPubliQA exercise at QA&CLEF 2010. In particular, we participated in the English–English monolingual task and in the Basque– English cross-lingual one. Our focus was threefold: (1) to check to what extent information retrieval (IR) can achieve good results in passage retrieval without question analysis and answer v...

One key issue for models of bilingual memory is to what degree the semantic representation from one of the languages is shared with the other language. In the present paper, we examine whether there is an early, automatic semantic priming effect across languages for noncognates with highly proficient (Basque/Spanish) bilinguals. Experiment 1 was a between-languagemasked semantic priming lexical...

This paper presents a set of experiments performed on parsing the Basque Dependency Treebank. We have concentrated on treebank transformations, maintaining the same basic parsing algorithm across the experiments. The experiments can be classified in two groups: 1) feature optimization, which is important mainly due to the fact that Basque is an agglutinative language, with a rich set of morphos...

Resolving Named Entity Disambiguation task with a small knowledge base makes the task more challenging. Concretely, we present an evaluation of the state-of-the-art methods in this task for Basque NE disambiguation based on the Basque Wikipedia. We have used MFS, VSM, ESA and UKB for linking any ambiguous surface NE form occurrence in a text with its corresponding Wikipedia entry in the Basque ...

Basque is an agglutinative language, which implies that corpusvocabulary can not be defined with words, because they growcombinationally making medium and large vocabulary tasks intractable. Pseudo-morphemes, generated with an automatic segmentation tool, could be an alternative choice for building the lexicon and the language model, for they notably reduce the vocabulary size. In Basque, there...

We present some Language Technology applications that have proven to be effective tools to promote the use of Basque, a European less privileged language. We also present the strategy we have followed for almost twenty years to develop those applications as the top of an integrated environment of language resources, language foundations, language tools and other applications. When we have faced...