AnHitz, development and integration of language, speech and visual technologies for Basque

Kutz Arrieta, Igor Leturia, Urtza Iturraspe, Arantza Diaz De Ilarraza, Kepa Sarasola, Inma Hernáez, Eva Navas

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Abstract

AnHitz 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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008
Pages338-343
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008 - Osaka, Japan
Duration: 15 Dec 200816 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008

Conference

Conference2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOsaka
Period15/12/0816/12/08

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