Motivations for final position and for enclitic position: On the placing of the inflected verb in historical Basque Modern Basque (and historical Basque as a whole; generalized attestations start in the 16 century) is a XXIV-type language in Greenberg’s (1966) classification; that is, a non-rigid SOV language with Gen-N order and postpositions, but with N-Adj order. In the present work, I exami...

Different lines of evidence point to the resettlement of much of western and central Europe by populations from the Franco-Cantabrian region during the Late Glacial and Postglacial periods. In this context, the study of the genetic diversity of contemporary Basques, a population located at the epicenter of the Franco-Cantabrian region, is particularly useful because they speak a non-Indo-Europe...

Culture is one of the pillars of Territorial Intelligence. Through case studies, we propose to consider culture in its relations with the training. Training constitutes a major lever for sustainable development, especially for vulnerable areas. We discuss the issue in a constructivist approach from "training situations”. After the case of the cooperative Spanish Basque group Mondragón, we analy...

This paper describes the methodology adopted to jointly develop the Basque WordNet and a hand annotated corpora (the Basque Semcor). This joint development allows for better motivated sense distinctions, and a tighter coupling between both resources. The methodology involves edition, tagging and refereeing tasks. We are currently half way though the nominal part of the 300.000 word corpus (roug...

The present paper presents the modeling of standard Basque intonation to be used in text to speech conversion systems. The parameterization process of the Basque f0 curves made according to Fujisaki’s intonation model is explained: experiments made in the placing of the phrase commands of the model are described and the results of these experiments are analyzed. The statistical analysis of the ...

The prototype translates noun and prepositional phrases from English to Basque. It is important to emphasise that the prototype operates with real texts. The treatment of Basque implies to reuse and to adapt wide-coverage linguistic tools and resources for the language developed by our group (IXA group, http://ixa.si.ehu.es); on the other hand, we will take advantage of other tools and resource...

Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz,1,2 Asier Eiguren,1,2 and Aitor Bergara1,2,3 1Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila, Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 Postakutxatila, 48080 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain 2Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain 3Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales CFM Materials Physics Ce...

This paper presents the first steps in the development of a Basque coreference resolution system. We propose a mention detector system based on a linguistic study of the nature of mentions. The system identifies mentions that are potential candidates to be part of coreference chains in Basque written texts. The mention detector is rule-based and has been implemented using finite state technolog...

We explore the interaction of sentential negation and word order in Basque using a small experimental implemented grammar based on the Grammar Matrix (Bender et al., 2002, 2010) to test the analyses. We find that the analysis of free word order (Fokkens, 2010) provided by the Grammar Matrix customization system can be adapted to handle the Basque facts, and that the constructional approach take...

1 Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind, and Society, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastiá n, Spain 2 Department of Informatics, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics and Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK 3 Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain 4 Department of Philoso...