The ZT Corpus (Basque Corpus of Science and Technology) is a tagged collection of specialised texts in Basque, which aims to be a major resource in research and development with respect to written technical Basque: terminology, syntax and style. It was released in December 2006 and can be queried at http://www.ztcorpusa.net. The ZT Corpus stands out among other Basque corpora for many reasons: ...

Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz,1,2 Aitor Bergara,1,2,3 E. Ya. Sherman,4,5 and Asier Eiguren1,2 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 M...

BACKGROUND Health expectancy is a useful tool to monitor health inequalities. The evidence about the recent changes in social inequalities in healthy expectancy is relatively scarce and inconclusive, and most studies have focused on Anglo-Saxon and central or northern European countries. The objective of this study was to analyse the changes in socioeconomic inequalities in disability-free life...

Cross-lingual speech recognition could be relevant for Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems which work with under-resourced languages and appropriately equipped languages. In the Basque Country, the interest on Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition systems comes from the fact that there are three official languages in use (Basque, Spanish, and French). . Multilingual Basq...

In June 2002, the Spanish Government passed the ”Law of Political Parties” (LPP) with the aim, among others, to prevent parties giving political support to terrorist organizations. This law affected the Basque nationalist party ”Batasuna”, due to its proved relation with ETA. In this paper, taking data from the Euskobarometro (Basque Country survey) related to the attitude of the Basque populat...

The ZT corpus (Basque Corpus of Science and Technology) is a tagged collection of specialized texts in Basque, which wants to be a main resource in research and development about written technical Basque: terminology, syntax and style. It will be the first written corpus in Basque which will be distributed by ELDA (at the end of 2006) and it wants to be a methodological and functional reference...

The development of applications for terminology extraction in Basque demands previous research on linguistic techniques, in order to fulfil the requirements of Basque language processing. Being Basque an agglutinative language, the results of pure statistical methods are not satisfactory and suitable for term extraction. In this work, we have adopted a hybrid approach, based on the selection of...

Mikhail Erekhinsky, Fèlix Casanova, Ivan K. Schuller, and Amos Sharoni Department of Physics, Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA CIC NanoGUNE, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain Department of Physics, Institute of Nanotechnology and A...

s from the Third Spanish Conference on Chronic Care, San Sebastián, 19–20 May 2011/Resúmenes de Comunicaciones al III Congreso Nacional de Atención Sanitaria al Paciente Crónico, Donostia-San Sebastián, 19 y 20 de mayo del 2011 Roberto Nuño, O+Berri, Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Spain Regina Sauto, O+Berri, Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Spain Nuria Toro, O+Berri, Ba...

1 Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine “López-Neyra”, CSIC, Granada, Spain. 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Leioa, Spain. 3 Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU. Leioa, Spain. 4 Biocruces Health Research...