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Workshop: Resources and tools for the automatic processing of the languages of the Pyrenees (2021-05-12, Online, Free)

The European project EFA 227/16/LINGUATEC “Development of cross-border cooperation and knowledge transfer in language technologies” organizes the workshop open to all researchers, with the aim of disseminating the work carried out within the project and presenting some of the advances made for Basque and Occitan. This project is co-financed by the European Regional […]

IXAmBERT: Good news for languages with few resources!

Good news for languages with few resources! Pre-trained Basque monolingual and multilingual language models have proven to be very useful in NLP tasks for Basque! Even they have been created with a 500 times smaller corpus than the English one and with a 80 times smaller wikipedia.

 

An example of Conversational Question […]

Five papers accepted at 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

The members of the Ixa group and their collaborators will present five papers at 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). ACL is one of the most important conferences on Natural Language Processing. It was to be held in July in Seattle, but this year it will be online.

Following, we present […]

Visitor: Andrea Horbach, Automatic scoring

Andrea Horbach is visiting San Sebastian within the enetCollect network on crowdsourcing for language learning, as part of an ongoing collaborating with Itziar Aldabe, Oier Lopez de Lacalle and Montse Maritxalar about evaluating manually as well as automatically generated reading comprehension questions.

Andrea Horbach is a researcher at the Language Technology Lab headed by Prof. […]

One of the best three papers on Clinical NLP in 2017 was published by Ixa Group

A paper written by IXA members Arantza Casillas, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz and Alicia Perez, among the 3 best papers published in 2017 in the field of clinical Natural Language Processing.

The paper entitled “Semi-supervised medical entity recognition: A study on Spanish and Swedish clinical corpora“, by Pérez A, Weegar R, Casillas A, Gojenola K, […]

European Parliament endorses the report on Language Equality in the Digital Age (2018-09-11)

This week, the report on Language Equality in the Digital Age that was presented by Jill Evans MEP of Wales was overwhelmingly endorsed by the European Parliament with 592 MEPs voting in favour, and with only 45 against and 44 abstentions. Find here a link to a press release about the vote: https://www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/press/victory-for-language-equality-in-the-european-parliament/

CONGRATULATIONS!

https://youtu.be/MqRBloVr5N4

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Be a friend of the Minority SafePack! We need your signature!

We call upon the EU to adopt a set of legal acts to improve the protection of persons belonging to national and linguistic minorities and strengthen cultural and linguistic diversity in the Union. It shall include policy actions in the areas of regional and minority languages, education and culture, regional policy, participation, equality, […]

Presentation: Research groups in the Faculty of Informatics (2017-10-10, 10:00-11:10)

Tomorrow morning the research groups in the Faculty of Informatics will present their work to the students.

Date: Tuesday, October 10 Time: 10:05-11:10 Where: Ada-Lovelace room Audience: Students of 3rd & 4th levels Subject: Presentation of research subjects and groups in the Faculty. IXA Group’s collaboration with students: job opportunities for undergraduate […]

Nora Aranberri: Machine Translation for Translators (Innsbruck, 2016-07-20)

Our colleague Nora Aranberri has been the lecturer in the workshop on “Machine Translation for Translators: Taking Advantage of the New Technology” at SummerTrans 2016.

The International Translation Summer School SummerTrans, was founded in Innsbruck in 2004. From 11 to 20 July 2016 the University of Innsbruck hosted the 7th International Translation SummerSchool “SummerTrans VII: […]

Nice results in Codefestdss2016 projects

This a list of the aims of the projects in CODEFEST 2016 summer school and the results achieved by each of them. Further information can be found in Codefest_dss2016 website.

Quiz Bowl: Multilingual question-answering for trivia games with Wikipedia

The QUIZ Bowl team was the winner in our codefest competition. Congratulations!

Aims:The […]