BACKGROUND The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine--Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is officially released in English and Spanish. In the Basque Autonomous Community two languages, Spanish and Basque, are official. The first attempt to semi-automatically translate the SNOMED CT terminology content to Basque, a less resourced language is presented in this paper. METHODS A translation algorithm th...

I. G. Gurtubay,1,2,* B. Rousseau,2,3 and A. Bergara1,2,3,† 1Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila, Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 Postakutxatila, Bilbo, 48080 Basque Country, Spain 2Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, Donostia, 20018 Basque Country, Spain 3Centro de Fisica de Materiales, CSIC–UPV/EHU, 1072 Posta kutxat...

V. M. Silkin Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 304, Bijenička c. 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; Departamento de Fı́sica de Materiales and Centro Mixto CSIC–UPV/EHU, Facultad de Ciencias Quı́micas, Universidad del Paı́s Vasco, Apdo. 1072, 20080 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain; Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), P. de Manuel Lardizabal, 4, 20018 San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and IKER...

We present the first discursive segmenter for Basque implemented by heuristics based on syntactic dependencies and linguistic rules. Preliminary experiments show F1 values of more than 85% in automatic EDU segmentation for Basque.

The aim of the AnHitz project, whose participants are research groups with very different backgrounds, is to carry out research on language, speech and visual technologies for Basque. Several resources, tools and applications have been developed in AnHitz, but we have also integrated many of these into a prototype of a 3D virtual expert on science and technology. It includes Question Answering ...

In this paper, we present the first Semantic Role Labeling system developed for Basque. The system is implemented using machine learning techniques and trained with the Reference Corpus for the Processing of Basque (EPEC). In our experiments the classifier that offers the best results is based on Support Vector Machines. Our system achieves 84.30 F1 score in identifying the PropBank semantic ro...

Young Basque-speaking children produce Differential Object Marking (DOM) and pre-verbal complementizers in their speech, variants argued to stem from contact with Spanish (Austin, 2006; Rodríguez-Ordóñez, 2013). In this paper, I claim that despite their contact-induced origin, these forms reflect distinct developmental tendencies on the part of the child acquiring Basque. Children's use of pre-...

The first version of the Basque Constraint Grammar (BCG) was developed in 1995–1997 by two linguists (Aduriz et al., 1997) based on the Constraint Grammar theory of Karlsson (1990; Karlsson et al. (1995). Since then, it has undergone many changes, by many grammarians. During the two decades of development, the Basque morphological analyser has also been updated several times, and not always syn...

This case study aims at exploring the role of Basque and multilingual practices that occur when English becomes language instruction in two Basque-medium secondary schools. The data collected through classroom observations semi-structured interviews with four CLIL teachers show that, among others, legitimize students’ other languages (mainly, Basque) have an important classroom. However, need f...

Does first language (L1) word order affect the processing of non-canonical but grammatical syntactic structures in second language (L2) comprehension? In the present study, we test whether L1-Spanish speakers of L2-Basque process subject-verb-object (SVO) and object-verb-subject (OVS) non-canonical word order sentences of Basque in the same way as Basque native speakers. Crucially, while OVS or...