Pronominal anaphora in Basque: annotation of a real corpus

This paper describes the process followed in the annotation of pronominal anaphora in the Eus3LB corpus1 of Basque. Our aim is to use this annotation as the basis for later computational treatment of our language. We present the linguistic analysis carried out, the criteria defined for the tagging and some relevant linguistic conclusions about the features of the antecedents needed to link them correctly to their anaphoric elements

Errenteriako euskararen kokagunea

In this study, we wish to describe the current Basque language in Renteria to determine which dialect it belongs to. In order to offer an accurate description of the variety and its sociolinguistic situation, we have decided to describe the speech of three age-groups with one clear objective in mind: to check whether the linguistic change shows specific trends so that this allows us to place that variety within the appropriate Basque dialect

Errenteriako euskararen kokagunea

In this study, we wish to describe the current Basque language in Renteria to determine which dialect it belongs to. In order to offer an accurate description of the variety and its sociolinguistic situation, we have decided to describe the speech of three age-groups with one clear objective in mind: to check whether the linguistic change shows specific trends so that this allows us to place that variety within the appropriate Basque dialect

Funtzio sintaktikoen gold estandarra eskuz etiketatzeko gidalerroak

[EN]In this report we present the tags we use when annotating the gold standard of syntactic functions and the decisions taken during its annotation. The gold standard is a necessary resource to evaluate the rulebased surface syntactic parser (the one based on the Constraint Grammar formalism), and, moreover, it can be useful to develop and evaluate statistical parsers. The tags we are presenting here follow the Constraint Grammar (CG) formalism (Karlsson et al., 1995). In fact, last experiments show that good results have been obtained when parsing with CG (Karlsson et al., 1995; Samuelsson and Voutilainen,1997; Tapanainen and Järvinen, 1997; Bick, 2000).[EU]Txosten honetan funtzio sintaktikoen gold estandarra etiketatzean erabiltzen diren funtzio-etiketak eta horiek aplikatzeko hartutako erabakiak azalduko ditugu. Gold estandarra funtsezkoa dugu erregeletan oinarritutako azaleko analizatzaile sintaktikoa ebaluatzeko eta, halaber, baliagarri izan daiteke analizatzaile estatistikoak garatzeko eta ebaluatzeko ere. Funtzio-etiketa horiek Constraint Grammar(CG) eredua jarraitzen dute (Karlsson et al., 1995). Izan ere, azken urteetan analisi sintaktiko automatikoan emaitza onak lortu dira CG ereduaren aplikazioaren bidez (Karlsson et al., 1995; Samuelsson and Voutilainen, 1997; Tapanainen and Järvinen, 1997; Bick, 2000). Halaber, testuak anotatzeko lana oso handia dela kontuan izanik, Voutilainen-ek (2012) anotaziorako metodologia erdiautomatikoak proposatzen ditu. Ildo horretatik, etiketatze-lan hori arintze aldera,baliabide erdiautomatikoak ere jorratu ditugu (Arriola et al., 2013), baina geratzen den anbiguotasuna ebazteko (% 25) eskuzko etiketatzea egingo da. Hain zuzen ere, txosten honetan eskuzko lan hori aurrera eramateko gidalerroak definitu ditugu. Gidalerroetan analisietan erabiltzen diren laburtzapenak jasotzeaz gain, funtzio-etiketa horiek esleitzeko gidalerroak zehaztuko ditugu

Building the Gold Standard for the surface syntax of Basque

In this paper, we present the process in the construction of SF-EPEC, a 300,000-word corpus syntactically annotated that aims to be a Gold Standard for the surface syntactic processing of Basque. First, the tagset designed for this purpose is described; being Basque an agglutinative language, sometimes complex syntactic tags were needed. We also account for the different phases in the construction of SF-EPEC

A spelling corrector for basque based on morphology

This paper describes the components used in the elaboration of the commercial Xuxen spelling checker/corrector for Basque. Because Basque is a highly inflected and agglutinative language, the spelling checker/corrector has been conceived as a by-product of a general purpose morphological analyser/generator. The spelling checker/corrector performs morphological decomposition in order to check misspellings and, to correct them, uses a new strategy which combines the use of an additional two-level morphological subsystem for orthographic errors, and the recognition of correct morphemes inside the world-form during the generation of proposals for typographical errors. Due to a late process of standardization of Basque, Xuxen is intended as a useful tool for standardization purposes of present day written Basque

Teknologia garatzeko estrategiak baliabide urriko hizkuntzetarako: euskararen eta Ixa taldearen adibidea

El artículo comienza presentando varios datos que muestran la situación de la lengua vasca, y a continuación proponiendo una clasificación para las lenguas del mundo según sea su presencia en Internet y en la tecnología de la lengua. El cuerpo del artículo presenta el trabajo hecho por el grupo Ixa en el campo del procesamiento automático del euskara, identificando sus siete hitos principales y describiendo la estrategia que ha guiado este desarrollo. Se plantea que esta estrategia puede servir como referencia para 190 lenguas que según la lasificación propuesta no poseen recursos de tecnología de la lengua pero si poseen una mínima presencia significativa en Internet.Euskararen egoeraren inguruan hainbat datu ematen dira labur-labur, eta horrekin batera munduko hizkuntzak sailkatzeko proposamen bat aurkezten da Interneten eta hizkuntz teknologian duten egoeren araberakoa. Euskararen prozesaketa automatikoan Ixa taldeak izan duen bilakaeraren nondik norakoak zehazten dira gero, hainbat mugarri azpimarratuz eta ibilbide hori jarraitzeko erabili den estrategia deskribatuz. Munduko 190 hizkuntzentzat erreferentzia izan daiteke estrategia hori, hain zuen, Interneten presentzia minimo eduki bai baina oraindik hizkuntza-teknologia mota hau landu ez duten hizkuntzentzat

Migración de una gramática sintáctica parcial entre dos formalismos de unificación

Este trabajo presenta el proceso de migración de una gramática sintáctica del euskera de un formalismo a otro. Debido a diferencias en los formalismos y también en el tipo de gramáticas, la transición directa de una gramática a otra no es posible. Esto lleva a que la construcción de la nueva gramática por parte de un lingüista parta prácticamente de cero. Por ello se ha planteado, de manera paralela a la construcción manual de la gramática, un experimento consistente en derivar una gramática de manera semiautomática generando reglas partiendo de la gramática antigua y un corpus analizado con ésta. Este experimento ha servido por un lado para comprobar la viabilidad de obtener una nueva gramática de manera prácticamente automática, y a la vez ha valido para ayudar en el proceso de construcción manual de la gramática, sirviendo de punto de comparación y para detección de errores u omisiones

Using linguistic data for English and Spanish verb-noun combination identification

We present a linguistic analysis of a set of English and Spanish verb+noun combinations (VNCs), and a method to use this information to improve VNC identification. Firstly, a sample of frequent VNCs are analysed in-depth and tagged along lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic dimensions, obtaining satisfactory inter-annotator agreement scores. Then, a VNC identification experiment is undertaken, where the analysed linguistic data is combined with chunking information and syntactic dependencies. A comparison between the results of the experiment and the results obtained by a basic detection method shows that VNC identification can be greatly improved by using linguistic information, as a large number of additional occurrences are detected with high precision

Pronominal Anaphora in Basque: computational point of view and the development of a corpus

This paper describes the process of annotating pronominal anaphor in a corpus of Basque which consists of 54.000 words. Our aim is to use this annotation as a basis for later computational processing. The linguistic study carried out and the criteria defined for the tagging process are also presented in the pape