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Ninth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-9)

Eneko AGIRRE and Nora ARANBERRI, Ixa Group from University of the Basque Country, together with Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Marine Carpuat, National Research Council (NRC) Canada, are the organizers of the SSST-9 – ”Ninth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation” that takes place in Denver, […]

Basque Advanced Informatics Laboratory – BAILab

IXA Group is a member of the Basque Advanced Informatics Laboratory (BAILab), a Teaching and Research Unit recently created by the University of the Basque Country to promote cooperation between its research groups. BAILAB was presented last week in the Gipuzkoa Science and Technology Park, Miramón, Donostia (BAILab_Miramon_Flyer.pdf). The 108 members of BAILab are researchers […]

RUNASIMI project: processing of Quechua

Ixa Group is collaborating since 2011 with the UNSAAC university (Cusco, Peru). The main goal of this collaboration is to make use of the experience and know-how acquired in Basque automatic processing and apply it to the processing of Quechua, that is also an agglutinative language like Basque.

We are developing a spelling checker, based […]

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 […]

Nice results from the OpeNER Hackathon

Picture of the hackathon (www.newsreader-project.eu)

 

Some IXA members participated in the Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Big Data Hackathon organised by our colleagues from the OpeNER project. And they obtained excellent results:

10 projects were organized. Three projects were tied for third place. The project presented by Iñaki San Vicente (“Last […]

OpeNER Hackathon (Text Mining & Big Data). Amsterdam, July 2, 2013

From the OpeNER project we are inviting coders, linguists and (product) designers to join us for a one day Hackathon around Natural Language Technology and Text Mining large datasets (e.g. Sentiment analysis, Named Entity Recognition).

There’s a large collection of state of the art webservices, datasets and APIs available of which all “core” […]

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 […]

Ixa Group at the kick-off meeting of the NewsReader Project

Ixa Group is one of the five partners in the consortium of the NewsReader Project (EU FP7 programme, grant 316404, Jan.2013 – Dec.2015) that was presented on Wednesday 23 January at VU University Amsterdam. These are the five partners in the consortium:

VU University Amsterdam The University of the Basque Country Fondazione Bruno Kessler LexisNexis […]