I’m an associate professor at the Computer Science faculty at the University of the Basque Country. I’m member of the IXA research group and the HiTZ research center1. I’m also member of the Computer Science Department at the UEU.
Publications
Here is an updated list with my articles (sorted by date). You can also find them in my Google Scholar Page
Research Projects
Here you can find a list of the projects and contracts I’ve been involved in (sorted by date).
Students
Current PhD students:
- Oscar Cumbicus
- Julen Etxaniz
- Maite Heredia
- Antonio David Ponce
- Gorka Urbizu
- Irune Zubiaga
PhD Alumni:
- Cristina Aceta (2022)
- Josu Goikoetxea (2018)
- Zuhaitz Beloki (2017)
- Ander Barrena (2017)
Teaching
- Bistaratze eta Ingurune Birtualak (undergratuate course, Basque)
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning (undergratuate course, Spanish and Basque)
- Corpus Linguistics (Language Analysis and Processing master course, English)
- Introducción a Deep Learning (Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Computacional y Sistemas Inteligentes master course, Spanish)
Resources
For newer resources check the websites of my collaborators or drop me a note.
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Pre-trained neural language models for Basque:
- txala (Basque generative, based on Llama2)
- berteus (Basque monolingual, based on BERT)
- euscrawl base (Basque monolingual, based on RoBERTa base)
- euscrawl large (Basque monolingual, based on RoBERTa large)
- IXAmBERT (Basque, Spanish, English; based on multi-BERT)
- A more extensive list is here
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BasqueGLUE, A Natural Language Understanding Benchmark for Basque.
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I helped with euscrawl, a high quality corpus for Basque.
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I’m the main developer of UKB, a knowledge-based word disambiguation system based on graphs (github page).
Professional Services
- Member of Editorial Board of JAIR
- ACL, EACL regular reviewer and Area Chair
- IJCAI regular reviewer and past member of Senior Program Commite
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Pronnounced /ˈhiːts/, the ending similar to ‘pizza’ (but without the last ‘a’ 😉) ↩︎