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QTLeap project: Towards global communication without linguistic barriers

The European scientific research project QTLeap is seeking technological advancements to overcome this barrier without eliminating or diminishing linguistic diversity.

IXA talde is a partner in QTLeap (Quality Translation by Deep Language Engineering Approaches), a project that is run by an European consortium with other seven partners: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Charles University in Prague, […]

Seminar: NEWSREADER project (G. Rigau)

Speaker: German Rigau (Ixa Group) Title: NEWSREADER project Date: Wed 2014-03-19 Time: 15:30 – 16:30 Where: Computer Science Faculty, Room 3.

See the whole calendar for Ixa seminars: http://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/egutegia_html

Outline:

The volume of news data is enormous and expanding, it becomes almost impossible to make well-informed […]

Talk: Text summarization using discourse knowledge. Text simplification and co-reference (T. Pardo)

Speaker: Thiago Pardo Data: February 28th 2014, Friday Time: 10:30 Room: 3.1 computer Science Faculty (UPV/EHU)

Title: “Text summarization using discourse knowledge. Text simplification and co-reference”

Abstract:

Thiago A.S. Pardo has also developped many systems for text summarization. For example, the following:

Summarization extension to Google Chrome – extension for on-line news […]

Talk: Rhetorical Structure Theory (Thiago Pardo)

Speaker: Thiago Pardo Data: February 27th 2014, Thursday Time: 15:30 Room: 3.2 computer Science Faculty (UPV/EHU)

Title: “Rhetorical Structure Theory: relational discourse structure annotation”

Abstract:

Thiago A.S. Pardo has developped many tools to work with Rhetorical Structure Theory. For example, the following:

CSTNews interface – access to 50 clusters of news texts […]

Seminar: ‘The Lexikoaren Behatokia project’ & ‘Enriching EDBL with Hiztegi Batua’ (12/11/2013)

Topics : The Lexikoaren Behatokia project (X. Artola) + Enriching EDBL with Hiztegi Batua (Gorka Labaka – Xabier Artola) Speakers: Xabier Artola and Gorka Labaka Day: December 11th 2013, Wednesday

The Basque language academy, Euskaltzaindia, launched in 2008 the Lexikoaren Behatokia project (“The Lexicon Observatory”), led by Andoni Sagarna. The objective of the project was […]

NewsReader Project winner of the 4th edition of the Enlighten Your Research (EYR4) competition

NewsReader project, in which IXA Group is a partner, won the 4th edition of the Enlighten Your Research (EYR4) competition with his proposal ’Recording history in large news streams‘, using big data in analyzing large news streams.

CONGRATULATIONS to German, Aitor, Eneko, Itziar, Egoitz, Piek and to all researchers in NewsReader!

4th edition of […]

Ixa Group turns 25 today (#ixa25)

Ixa Group turns 25 today, performing top-notch NLP research in and for Basque. We are organizing formal celebrations this week.

November 7 (18:30) At the Carlos Santamaría Centre, “Antonio Beristain” auditorium.

Talk: “An Ixa History of Computational Linguistics” Jon Patrick (Health Languages Laboratories (HLL)) Video showing: “Ixa turns 25” Round table: Ixa: barne-hotsa […]

The Basque Language in the digital age (META-NET White Paper)

META-NET is a Network of Excellence (consisting of 60 research centres from 34 countries) dedicated to building the technological foundations of a multilingual European information society.

The META-NET Language White Paper Series “Languages in the European Information Society” reports on the state of each European language with respect to Language Technology and explains the most […]

Arbel digitala: a tool for writing verses in Basque is on line

Three members of the IXA Group (Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta and Iñaki Alegria), in collaboration with the Association of Friends of Bertsolaritza (AFB, Bertsozale Elkartea) have developed a new product named Arbel digitala to train verse-makers, including language technology tools and verse-making. This new product was presented last January in the Koldo Mitxelena Library […]

Koldo Mitxelena award for PhD theses to Arantxa Otegi

Our colleague Arantxa Otegi won last Janaury the III. Koldo MItxelena Award for PhD Theses organized by Euskaltzaindia (the Academy of Basque Language) and the University of the Basque Country.

CONGRATULATIONS Arantxa!

Congratulations to her supervisors (Xabier Arregi and Eneko Agirre).

The title of this thesis is ‘Expansion for information retrieval: contribution of word […]