Past

Present

Future

Corpus

Raw text

27 Mw (newspapers)

100 Mw (2010)

Word-forms are tagged with POS and lemma.

27 Mw (newspapers)

30 Kw (hand corrected)

100 Mw (2010)

2 Mw (hand corrected)

Syntactically tagged text

30 Kw

1 Mw (2010)

Semantically tagged text

4 Kw (meanings)

1Mw (2010?) meanings

and semantically analyzed

Multilingual and parallel corpus.

1 Mw (Spanish-Basque)

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100 Mw(2010)

Lexicon

EDBL lexical database. Lexical support for constructing general applications, including POS and morphological information.

80.000 entries
Enrichment of the lexical database:
- Multiword lexical units
- Verb subcategorization

Improving design.
Enrichment of the lexical database.
- Multiword lexical units
- Verb subcategorization
- Semantics

Machine-readable dictionaries

Machine-readable dictionaries

Machine-readable dictionaries

Morpho

morphological description

Syntax

Syntax description

Syntax description
- Clause boundaries
- Postpositions
- Verb subcategorization
- Dependencies

Syntax description
- Broad coverage
- Different formalisms
(Unfication, CG, Dependency grammar)

Sem

Lexical-semantic multilingual
knowledge base. Taxonomy of concepts (such as WordNet)
BasqueWN

Automatic acquisition from other languages corpora

Enriching & optimising BasqueWN

Enriching & optimising
EuskalWN
- Terms
- Entity names
- (100 K-entry)

Past

Present

Future

Corpus

Tools for processing and creating corpora

Tools for creating and processing corpora

Tools for creating and processing corpora

Automatic lexical acquisition: Terminology

Lexicon

Structured versions of dictionaries
- EH Ibon Sarasola
- Eng-Basque Morris
- Elhuyar

Lexicographer workbench

Morpho

Morphological analyser/generator

Improving

Lemmatiser/tagger

Improving

Syntax

surface syntax:
syntactic functions
Chunks

Improving
- Resolution of syntactic ambiguity
Clause boundaries
Dependencies
Verb subcateg.
Postpositions

Parser
- Broad coverage
- Efficient
- Different formalisms
- CG +
dependencies
- Unification
+Statistical

Sem

Word-sense disambiguation (WSD)

Improving WSD
- Multilingual
knowledge

Improving WSD
Semantic analysis

Integration

Environment for tool integration
- TEI guidelines
- using XML

Integration of new tools
- Morphosyntax
- Syntax

Improving

Past

Present

Future

Spelling checker
corrector

New versions

Web server

Grammar and style checker

Search engine.
Traditional search engine that integrates lemmatisation and language identification.

Information Retrieval
- Using semantics

Information Extraction Question answering
- Crosslingual
- Using semantics

Bilingual dictionary integrated with a common text-processor to be consulted on-line (Elhuyar)

French-Basque

Synonym dictionary integrated with a common text-processor to be consulted on-line (UZEI)

Electronic version of the Basque monolingual dictionary Euskal Hiztegia (Ibon Sarasola)

Advanced dictionary query system

Electronic version of the Diccionario Basico Escolar Cubano

Linguistic tools for children Cuba's schools

Integration of heterogeneous lexical resources

Second language learning systems

Learner and error corpora based computational systems

Generation of translation memories

Translation memories (using units smaller than clause)

Spanish-Basque Transfer MT system.

-Open Code

-No lexical desanbiguation

-No use of corpus

Improving MT system
- EBMT
- SMT

- Lexical disambiguation

- Verb subcategorization

- English-Basque

Dialogue systems