The BerbaTek project for Basque: Promoting a less-resourced language via language technology for translation, content management and learning
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2016-12-12
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Language Science Press
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Basque 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.
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Leturia , I , Sarasola , K , Arregi , X , de Ilarraza , A D , Navas , E , Sainz , I , del Pozo , A , Baranda , D & Iturraspe , U 2016 , The BerbaTek project for Basque : Promoting a less-resourced language via language technology for translation, content management and learning . in Language Technologies for a Multilingual Europe . Language Science Press , pp. 181-204 . https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1291942