The Basque Diaspora in Western USA and Argentina represents two populations which have maintained strong Basque cultural and social roots in a completely different geographic context. Hence, they provide an exceptional opportunity to study the maternal genetic legacy from the ancestral Basque population and assess the degree of genetic introgression from the host populations in two of the large...

Researchers investigating processes stemming from or related to multilingualism often face the challenge of correctly characterizing their multilingual samples in terms of language use, proficiency, dominance, and exposure. This is typically done by using a variety of objective (e.g., normed tests) and/or subjective (e.g., self-reports) measures which tend to vary largely across laboratories an...

This paper describes IHARDETSI, a question answering system for Basque. We present the results of our first participation in the QA@CLEF 2008 evaluation task. We participated in three subtasks using Basque, English and Spanish as source languages and Basque as target language. We approached the Spanish-Basque and EnglishBasque cross-lingual tasks with a machine translation system that process a...

We present a new morphological processor for Biscayan, a dialect of Basque, developed on the description of the morphology of standard Basque. The database for the standard morphology has been extended for dialects and an opensource tool for morphological description named foma is used for building the processor. XuxenB, a spelling checker/corrector for this dialect, is the first application of...

Basque people have received considerable attention from anthropologists, geneticists, and linguists during the last century due to the singularity of their language and to other cultural and biological characteristics. Despite the multidisciplinary efforts performed to address the questions of the origin, uniqueness, and heterogeneity of Basques, the genetic studies performed up to now have suf...

This paper describes Ihardetsi, a question answering system for Basque. We present the results of our first participation in the QA@CLEF 2008 evaluation task. We participated in three subtasks using Basque, English and Spanish as source languages, and Basque as target language. We approached the Spanish-Basque and English-Basque cross-lingual tasks with a machine translation system that first p...

1. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Basque Country, Spain. 2. Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 3. Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), VitoriaGasteiz, Basque Country, Spain. 4. Medical Services, Athletic...

Autochthonous Basques are thought to be a trace from the human population contraction that occurred during the Last Glacial Maximum, based mainly on the salient frequencies and coalescence ages registered for haplogroups V, H1, and H3 of mitochondrial DNA in current Basque populations. However, variability of the maternal lineages still remains relatively unexplored in an important fraction of ...

In this chapter, we define a collaboration framework that enables Wikipedia editors to generate new articles while they help development of Machine Translation (MT) systems by providing post-edition logs. This collaboration framework was tested with editors of Basque Wikipedia. Their post-editing of Computer Science articles has been used to improve the output of a Spanish to Basque MT system c...