The Basque Autonomous Community constitutes the only Spanish experience of legal electronic vote regulation. The Basque Government decided, by means of a government bill that was voted in its legislative Chamber on June of 1998, to reform its electoral law and insert, as possible option, an electronic vote by means of a magnetic strip card. This Law, which has not been applied yet, presents a s...

This paper deals with the exploitation of dictionaries for the semi-automatic construction of lexicons and lexical knowledge bases. The final goal of our research is to enrich the Basque Lexical Database with semantic information such as senses, definitions, semantic relations, etc., extracted from a Basque monolingual dictionary. The work here presented focuses on the extraction of the semanti...

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is associated with an unstable CGG repeat sequence in the 5' untranslated region in the first exon of the FMR1 gene which resides at chromosome position Xq27.3 and is coincident with the fragile site FRAXA. The CGG sequence is polymorphic with respect to size and purity of the repeat. Interpopulation variation in the polymorphism of the FMR1 gene and consequently, in th...

The aims of this ex post facto study were to determine the comorbidity of personality disorders (PD) with eating disorders (ED), to establish the prominent characteristics of eating disorders subtypes and to compare PDs appeared in patients with EDs with those in other clinical and normal samples. Using the International Personality Disorders Examination (IPDE), 84 outpatients with EDs were com...

The way that immigrants integrate into recipient societies has been discussed for decades, mainly from the perspective of the social sciences. Uruguay, as other American countries, received diffferent waves of European immigrants, although the details of the process of assimilation, when it did occur, are unclear. In this study we used genetic markers to understand the process experienced by th...

Abstract This paper investigates the strategies involved in gender assignment Spanish-Basque mixed Determiner Phrases (DPs) with a gendered Spanish determiner ( el M / la F ) and Basque ungendered noun. Previous studies on DPs have revealed conflicting results regarding determining factor affecting assignment, namely, phonological ending vs. analogical gender. We designed forced-switch elicitat...

The Spanish spoken in the Basque Country contains some features due to its contact with Basque, one of those being production non-standard gender agreement (N-SGA) (Etxebarria Arostegui, 2007, 2008; Fernández Ulloa, 1997, 2006; Urrutia Cárdenas, 2006), since, unlike (RAE, 2016), there is no such category (Zubiri & Zubiri, 2012). This characteristic typically attributed elder native speakers...

We present the work done by Elhuyar Foundation in the field of bilingual terminology extraction. The aim of this work is to develop some techniques for the automatic extraction of pairs of equivalent terms from Spanish-Basque translation memories, and to implement those techniques in a prototype. Our approach is based on a previous monolingual extraction of term candidates in each language, the...

This work has been carried out in the context of automatic evaluation of learner summaries where text comprehension is gained using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. We had intuitively observed that lemmatized versions of LSA matrixes resembled better human Basque similarity judgement than the non lemmatized ones. This research was conducted to tes...

We introduce two new monotonicity properties for core concepts: singlevalued solution concepts that always select a core allocation whenever the game is balanced (has a nonempty core). We present one result of impossibility for one of the properties and we pose several open questions for the second property. The open questions arise because the most important core concepts (the nucleolus and th...