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Item AnHitz, development and integration of language, speech and visual technologies for Basque(2008) Arrieta, Kutz; Leturia, Igor; Iturraspe, Urtza; De Ilarraza, Arantza Diaz; Sarasola, Kepa; Hernáez, Inma; Navas, Eva; HPAAnHitz is a project promoted by the Basque Government to develop language technologies for the Basque language. The participants in AnHitz are research groups with very different backgrounds: text processing, speech processing and multimedia. The project aims to further develop existing language, speech and visual technologies for Basque: up to now its fruit is a set of 7 different language resources, 9 NLP tools, and 5 applications.. But also, in the last year of this project we are integrating, for the first time, such resources and tools (both existing and generated in the project) into a content management application for Basque with a natural language communication interface. This application consists of a Question Answering and a Cross Lingual Information Retrieval system on the area of Science and Technology. The interaction between the system and the user will be in Basque (the results of the CLIR module that are not in Basque will be translated through Machine Translation) using Speech Synthesis, Automatic Speech Recognition and a Visual Interface. The various resources, technologies and tools that we are developing are already in a very advanced stage, and the implementation of the content management application to integrate them all is in work and is due to be completed by October 2008.Item The BerbaTek project for Basque: Promoting a less-resourced language via language technology for translation, content management and learning(Language Science Press, 2016-12-12) Leturia, Igor; Sarasola, Kepa; Arregi, Xabier; de Ilarraza, Arantza Diaz; Navas, Eva; Sainz, Iñaki; del Pozo, Arantza; Baranda, David; Iturraspe, Urtza; SWT; HPABasque is both a minority language (only a small proportion of the population of the Basque Country speaks it) and also a less-resourced language. Fortunately, the Basque regional government is committed to its recovery, and has adopted policies for funding, among other things, language technologies, a field which a language aiming to survive cannot dispense with. BerbaTek was a 3-year (2009-2011) strategic research project on language, speech and multimedia technologies for Basque carried out by a consortium of five members, all prominent local organizations dedicated to research in the above-mentioned areas, and partially funded by the Departments for Industry and Culture of the Basque Government. Collaboration in BerbaTek allowed to carry out a great amount of both basic and applied research. In addition, various prototypes were developed to show the potential of integrating the developed technologies to the language industry sector.Item Development and evaluation of AnHitz, a prototype of a Basque-speaking virtual 3D expert on science and technology(2009-12-09) Leturia, Igor; Del Pozo, Arantza; Arrieta, Kutz; Iturraspe, Urtza; Sarasola, Kepa; De Ilarraza, Arantza Diaz; Navas, Eva; Odriozola, Igor; HPAThe aim of the AnHitz project, whose participants are research groups with very different backgrounds, is to carry out research on language, speech and visual technologies for Basque. Several resources, tools and applications have been developed in AnHitz, but we have also integrated many of these into a prototype of a 3D virtual expert on science and technology. It includes Question Answering and Cross Lingual Information Retrieval systems in those areas. The interaction with the system is carried out in Basque (the results of the CLIR module that are not in Basque are translated through Machine Translation) and is speech-based (using Speech Synthesis and Automatic Speech Recognition). The prototype has received ample media coverage and has been greatly welcomed by Basque society. The system has been evaluated by 50 users who have completed a total of 300 tests, showing good performance and acceptance.