Resources for Basque

Lexical resources

• EDBL - Lexical Data Base for Basque in ELDA
  • demo
  • main reference Aldezabal I., Ansa O., Arrieta B., Artola X., Ezeiza A., Hernández G., Lersundi M. 2001. EDBL: a General Lexical Basis for the Automatic Processing of Basque. IRCS Workshop on linguistic databases. Philadelphia (USA).
• EuroWordNet - Basque
  • main reference Agirre E., Ansa O., Arregi X., Arriola J., Díaz de Ilarraza A., Pociello E., Uria L. 2002. Methodological issues in the building of the Basque WordNet: quantitative and qualitative analysis. Proceedings of First International WordNet Conference. pp. 32-40. Mysore (India).

Corpora

• XX century's Basque corpus Basque corpus XX century
• ZT corpus Basque Corpus of Science and Technology
  • main reference Areta N., Gurrutxaga A., Leturia I., Alegria I., Artola X., Díaz de Ilarraza A., Ezeiza N., Sologaistoa A. 2007. ZT Corpus: Annotation and tools for Basque corpora Copus Linguistics. Birminghan.
• Corpeus: web as a corpus Basque
  • main reference Leturia I., Gurrutxaga A., Alegria I., Ezeiza A. 2007. CorpEus, a ‘web as corpus’ tool designed for the agglutinative nature of Basque. WAC3 2007 (Web as a Corpus) workshop.

Proofing Tools

• Spelling checker/corrector for Basque MS-Office, OpenOffice, ...
  • free version for Mozilla

Morphology

• Morphological analizer/generator for Basque
  • demo
  • main reference Alegria I., Artola X., Sarasola K. 1996. Automatic morphological analysis of Basque. Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 11, No. 4, 193-203. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1996.

Machine translation systems

Free software

• Matxin Spanish->Basque
  • Opentrad demo es->eu
  • main reference: Alegria I., Díaz de Ilarraza A., Labaka G., Lersundi M., Mayor A., Sarasola K. 2007. Transfer-based MT from Spanish into Basque: reusability, standardization and open source. LNCS 4394. 374-384. Cicling 2007.

Bibliography

• Ixa group

External links

• Ixa group, University of the Basque Country