Elhuyar Fundazioa - Language Services

Resources and Tools

The principal aim is a tool to conduct research into the use of Basque in the field of science and technology

Works in the field of science and technology published between 1990 and 2002 have been taken into consideration to feed a corpus
A total of 8,5 million words.
1.9 million words have been processed automatically and then reviewed and corrected manually.
The Corpus is classified according to field (scientific discipline) and genre (text type).
The Corpus is tagged, with respect to text structure and format as well as linguistically.
There is a powerful interface for querying the Corpus and all kinds of simple and complex searches can be made.
It has been developed by the Elhuyar Foundation’s R&D Group and the IXA Group of the Computing Faculty of the UPV-EHU (University of the Basque Country).
It was presented at LREC 2006, and at Corpus Linguistics 2007.
Three modes have been set up in order to introduce it to the general public.
- Free Internet query.
- Freely available for research through an agreement.
- Distributed by means of a licence for commercial use.