pollution deriving from trace elements (cd, cu, ni, pb, zn, hg, as and cr) in sediment samples(collected in 2009), belonging to rivers located in catalonia and the basque country (spain), was assessedaccording to sediment quality guidelines. sediment samples were ranked in terms of a pollution index thattakes into account the presence of multiple pollutants such as trace elements. while only ab...

Automatic Indexing of Broadcast News is a developing research area of great recent interest [1]. This paper describes the development steps for designing an automatic index system of broadcast news for both Basque and Spanish. This application requires of appropriate Language Resources to design all the components of the system. Nowadays, large and well-defined resources can be found in most wi...

GorUp is an Information Retrieval system that provides information about the contents of audio broadcast news in Basque, Spanish, and French. Since the resources available for Basque in general, and for this task in particular, were very few, data optimization methodologies had to be applied in various phases of the development. Moreover, the agglutinative nature of Basque required the use of m...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a broad research area that absorbs many efforts from the research community. The interest on Multilingual Systems arouses in the Basque Country because there are three official languages (Basque, Spanish, and French), and there is much linguistic interaction among them, even if Basque has very different roots than the other two languages. The development of...

The development of Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition systems involves issues as: Acoustic Phonetic Decoding, Language Modelling or the development of appropriated Language Resources. In the state of the art, new techniques for reusing Language Resources of more resourced related languages is becoming of great interest, and there is also a growing interest on Multilingual systems. T...

J. Alvarez-Aramberri∗, D. Pardo and H. Barucq ∗ University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain, Inria team-project Magique-3D, and LMA UMR 5142 UPPA, Pau, France, [email protected], https://sites.google.com/site/m2sigroup/. 2 Department of Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Operational Research at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and IKERBASQUE, Basqu...

This paper describes the characteristics and structure of a Basque singing voice database of bertsolaritza. Bertsolaritza is a popular singing style from Basque Country sung exclusively in Basque that is improvised and a capella. The database is designed to be used in statistical singing voice synthesis for bertsolaritza style. Starting from the recordings and transcriptions of numerous singers...

A. Gerlach, K. Berge, A. Goldmann, I. Campillo, A. Rubio, J. M. Pitarke, and P. M. Echenique Fachbereich Physik, Universität Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, D–34132 Kassel, Germany Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, 644 Posta Kutxatila, 48080 Bilbo, Basque Country, Spain Materialen Fisika Saila, Kimika Fakultatea, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea and Centro Mix...