Since Monday, the 10th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 1016) is being held in Portoroam, Slovenia. Three members of the Elhuyar Language and Technology Unit working in R&D from today until Friday: Iñaki San Vicente, Xabier Saralegi and Maddalen Lopez de Lacalle.

The LREC Congress (Language Resources and Evaluation Congress) is a research and evaluation congress of language technologies in which Elhuyar will present the following works carried out within the strategic research project ElkarOla:

• San Vicente I, Saralegi X. “Polarity lexicon building: to what extent is the manual effort worth?”
• Alegria I, C. Aranberri, Spain-Bonet C, Gamallo P. Gónçalo Oliveira H., Martínez Garcia E., Saint Vincent I, D. Toral, A. Zubiaga “TweetMT: A parallel microblog corpus”.
• Agirre E., Alegria I, Saralegi X. “Evaluating translation quality and CLIR performance of Query Sessions”.
• Aldabe I, C. Laparra, López de Lacalle M. C. Rigau “A Multilingual Predicate Matrix”.

For his part, Antton Gurrutxaga, comrade of the Lexicography department of Elhuyar, has participated in the drafting of the following article they will present in it:

• A. Gurrutxaga, D. Hicks, Quochi V, Russo I, A. Sarhimaa, Soria C., C. Tuomisto “Fostering digital representation of EU regional and minority languages: the Digital Language Diversity Project”.

In the blog of the Elhuyar R&D group you will find more detailed information about these research works.