• HAP/LAP Master Theses (2020-09-21 and 22)
• ‘AI Basque’ created by GAIA Cluster and HITZ Center
• PhD Thesis: Unsupervised Machine Translation (Mikel Artetxe, 2020/07/29)
• Ixa group has been awarded in the CAPITEL@IberLEF2020 competition
• Master students won EHealth-KD-2020 subtask on Relation Extraction
• The Ixa research group has been awarded in the artificial intelligence competition promoted by the US government related to COVID-19 disease
• Five papers accepted at 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
• Eneko Agirre won for the third consecutive year the Google prize

2019

• “Itzulbide” ikerketa-proiektua
• Visitor: Andrea Horbach, Automatic scoring
• One of the best three papers on Clinical NLP in 2017 was published by Ixa Group
• Mitxelena Award for PhD theses 2018 to Olatz Perez-de-Viñaspre: Automatic medical term generation
• Eneko Agirre awarded by Google Research
• PhD Thesis: Computational Model for Semantic Textual Similarity (I. San Vicente, 2019/03/11)
• Seminar: Irish Machine Translation and Resources (M. Dowling, 2019-03-11)
• Meeting of LINGUATEC project in Donostia (2019-02-21)
• 2 master-theses today (2019-02-25, 16:00)
• Best Paper Award on CoNLL2018

2018

• Talk: Neural Networks and Linguistics. Talking Past Each Other? (M. Hulden, 2018-11-08)
• Best Thesis Award in SEPLN (Aitor Gonzalez, 2018-09-13)
• European Parliament endorses the report on Language Equality in the Digital Age (2018-09-11)
• “Language Analysis and Processing” master theses (2018-06-26)
• Talk: Karelian dialects, how to study variation between closely related languages? (I. Moshnikov, 2018-06-19)
• Talk: The Open Multilingual Wordnet (F. Bond., 2018-06-13)
• PROCESSING OF HISTORICAL CORPORA (Open day workshop, 2018-06-11)
• Be a friend of the Minority SafePack! We need your signature!
• Science journal: ‘Ixa opens a new research avenue: Machine Translation without a dictionary?’
• Course: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (4,5 ECTS, February)

2017

• Presentation: Research groups in the Faculty of Informatics (2017-10-10, 10:00-11:10)
• HAP/LAP master theses (2017-09-26)
• Best paper award in SEPLN2017
• PhD Thesis: Computational Model for Semantic Textual Similarity (A. Gonzalez, 2017/07/07)
• HAP/LAP master thesis (Noelia Migueles, 2017-06-27)
• Talk: Computational explorations of creative language (C. Strapparava, 2017-07-07)
• PhD Thesis: Automatic Scansion of Poetry (M. Agirrezabal, 2017/06/19)
• Neural Machine Translation. Open workshop with Kyunghyun Cho (2017-05-29)
• PhD position in Innsbruck with Michael Ustaszewski
• Mikel Artetxe awarded in Hackaton on Language Technologies organized by Red.es

2016

• German Rigau keynote speaker in the JRC Conference TEXT MINING IN POLICY MAKING
• Our papers in Japan (COLING 2016)
• HAP/LAP master theses (2016-09-27)
• Book: Microparameters in the Grammar of Basque
• Nora Aramberri: Machine Translation for Translators (Innsbruck, 2016-07-20)
• Nice results in Codefestdss2016 projects
• Erasmus Mundus LCT master. Annual Meeting 2016 in Donostia (June 09 – 10)
• Seminar: Big Data and NLP at Trivago (Min Fang, 2016-06-08)
• Ixa Group is one of the 15 institutional members of EAMT
• Video: HAP-LAP master thesis (Mikel Artetxe)
• We have 14 papers at LREC
• Master theses defence
• Language Technologies for refugee integration
• Codefest summer­lab aims to revitalise resource ­scarce language (Donostia, July 4-8)
• Talk: Clinical text mining (H. Dalianis, 2016-04-06)
• Are the meanings of these two words related? (Eneko’s Google Award)
• Eneko Agirre awarded by Google Research
• 2nd Workshop on Semantics-Driven Machine Translation (SedMT)
• ixa-pipes in FOSDEM

2015

• Course: Language Processing Applications (9 ECTS, on Fridays)
• Talk: Irish language technology (T. Lynn, 2015/10/13)
• Eloína Miyares, the mother of the Cuban Basic School Dictionary
• QTLeap european project: Meeting in Donostia-San Sebastian (June/30 – July/1)
• Talk: Medical Natural Language Processing (Jon Patrick, 2015/06/24)
• Talk: Discourse Structure in Machine Translation Evaluation (L. Marquez, 2015/06/25)
• 10.000 downloads for Mitzuli translator app
• Our masters on Language Technology for 2015/16
• Talk: Discourse organization studies at Universidade Estadual de Maringá (J. Desiderato, 2015/06/04)
• R. Agerri: mentor in Google Summer of Code 2015
• 14th International Conference on Parsing Technologies in Bilbao
• Talk: A broad stroke on Machine Translation Evaluation (C. España-Bonet, 2015/03/13)
• LoCloud Hackaton (today): applications for the cultural heritage sector
• PhD Thesis: Automatic Extraction of Lexical Knowledge from Wordnet (M. Castillo, 2015/01/28)
• Talk: Biomedical Relation Extraction (Roland Roller, 2015/01/28)
• Ninth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-9)

2014

• Talk: Going to the Roots of Dependency Parsing (Miguel Ballesteros, 2014/12/16)
• Talk: A Vector Space Model approach to discover constructions (Toni Martí, 2014-12-15)
• OpeNER project is over: check our tools and results!
• The Basque WordNet semantic dictionary is a “public resource” now
• QTLeap project: Towards global communication without linguistic barriers
• Seminar: NEWSREADER project (G. Rigau)
• Talk: Text summarization using discourse knowledge. Text simplification and co-reference (T. Pardo)
• Talk: Rhetorical Structure Theory (Thiago Pardo)
• Talk: Multilingual Mention Detection for Coreference Resolution (O. Uryupina, 21/02/2014)
• Talk: BrainNet (Massimo Poesio, 20/02/2014)
• Basque Advanced Informatics Laboratory – BAILab

2013

• 2014-15 masters: Erasmus Mundus LCT and LAP/HAP
• RUNASIMI project: processing of Quechua
• Ixa Group awarded with the Abbadia Prize
• Seminar: ‘The Lexikoaren Behatokia project’ & ‘Enriching EDBL with Hiztegi Batua’ (12/11/2013)
• NewsReader Project winner of the 4th edition of the Enlighten Your Research (EYR4) competition
• Ixa Group turns 25 today (#ixa25)
• Iñigo Lopez Gazpio receives the Best Academic Record Award in Computer Science 2013
• Seminar: Unsupervised Relation Extraction with General Domain Knowledge (2013/07/10)
• Seminar: HPSG grammars. (2013/07/15).
• Nice results from the OpeNER Hackathon
• OpeNER Hackathon (Text Mining & Big Data). Amsterdam, July 2, 2013
• Piek Vossen receives Spinoza prize
• Ixa Group at the kick-off meeting of the LoCloud project
• The Basque Language in the digital age (META-NET White Paper)
• Arbel digitala: a tool for writing verses in Basque is on line
• Koldo Mitxelena award for PhD theses to Arantxa Otegi
• Ixa Group at the kick-off meeting of the NewsReader Project
• Ixa Group is a new institutional member of EAMT

2012

• Seminar. First steps towards Quechua’s processing. (2012/11/15)
• TALK. JM Torres: Text Summarization (2012/11/09)
• TALK. A. Kilgarriff: Getting to Know Your Corpus (2012/11/07)
• Talk. Martha Palmer: Beyond Shallow Semantics (2012-10-08)
• Xuxen, Kimmo Koskenniemi and FSMNLP2012
• OpeNER, Newsreader and READERS: 3 new European projects with participation of IXA Group.
• Visit of master students from the University of Zurich (2012-06-05)
• SemEval-2012 Task 6: A Pilot on Semantic Textual Similarity
• *SEM conference: Lexical and computational semantics
• Supporting Users’ Exploration of Digital Libraries (SUEDL workshop)
• Google Research publishes an innovative concept dictionary, descended from collaboration with Ixa Group
• Talk:Nicolai Erbs. Multilingual acquisition of large scale knowledge resources (2012/02/24)
• BerbaTek project’s results and demos.
• Talk: M. Cuadros. Multilingual acquisition of large scale knowledge resources

2011

• Zubiaga:Mining Twitter for real-time trend and information discovery (2011/12/12)
• Talk: V. Kordoni. Automated Annotation and Acquisition of Linguistic Knowledge (2011/11/25)
• Talk. Tegau Andrews. An overview of Welsh language technologies. (2011/11/02)
• Talks. David Martinez and Meladel Mistica. (2011/10/14)
• Talk. Dan Jurafsky. Extracting many kinds of meaning from text and speech. (2011/09/13)
• Talk. Marta Recasens. Coreference: Theory, Annotation, Resolution and Evaluation (2011/06/28)
• Talk. Atro Voutilainen. Dependency treebank for Finnish (2011/06/08)
• Talk. Daniele Pighin. Semantic Structures in Translation Ranking (2011/05/31)
• International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation (LIHMT-2011)
• Talk. Lluís Màrquez. Automatic evaluation in Machine Translation: Towards combined linguistically-motivated measures (2011/05/10)
• Talk. Giovanni Semeraro. Information Retrieval and Information Filtering: two battlefields for NLP techniques (2011/05/06)
• News from OPENMT-2 project
• Mitxelena Award for PhD theses: Maite Oronoz eta Larraitz Uria
• Karin Verspoor. Beyond Search: enabling biomedical knowledge discovery through natural language processing (2011/03/18)
• 40th anniversary of the Centro de Lingüística Aplicada in Santiago de Cuba.
• Roser Morante’s talk: Modality and negation in natural language processing (2011/02/23)
• A new European Project: PATHS
• Invited talk: Computational Semantics and Pragmatics (Rodolfo Delmonte, 2011/01/17,18

2010

• Course: Foma Tool for Finite-State Machine Construction (Mans Houlden, 2011-Jan-11,12,13)
• Wauter Bosma: Contextual salience in query-based summarization (2010/10/22)
• Summer course on Language Managing in the Global World
• Collaborating on language processing for Basque and Sami (Laponian)
• Master on ‘Analysis and Processing of Language’. Registration in September.
• 2010/06/11 Andy Way’s invited talk: ‘Example Based Machine Translation
• CLARIN Meeting in Donostia. May 2010
• Mark Stevenson’s invited talk: ‘Disambiguation of Biomedical Text’ (2010/05/14)
• IXA NLP has been invited to join Europeana v1.0 thematic network
• Larraitz Uria’s PhD Thesis: A framework for the analysis of errors and deviations in Basque texts. Analysis and processing of errors on the use of determiners.
• Jon Patrick ‘s invited talk: ‘Medical NLP and Engineering. An NLP Workbench for it’ (2010/02/12)

2009

• Maite Oronoz develops new system to detect and correct syntactic mistakes (2009/09/21)