Language Report Basque

Abstract

Since 1968 Basque has been immersed in a process of revitalisation that has faced formidable obstacles. Nonetheless, significant progress has been made in numerous areas. The Language Technology community widely accepts the standardised language and constructs efficacious LT tools. After thirty years of collaborative work, research has resulted in state-of-the-art technology and robust, broad-coverage NLP for Basque. However, a dramatic difference remains between Basque and other European languages in terms of both the maturity of research and the state of readiness with respect to language technology solutions.

Language technologies for a multilingual public administration in Spain

“…The different language technologies described in section 2 are currently available with varying degrees of development for the three main co-official languages in Spain: Galician, Basque and Catalan. Detailed reports on the degree of technological progress for each of these languages can be found in Ramírez-Sánchez and García-Mateo (2022) for Galician, Sarasola et al (2022) for Basque, and Melero et al (2022a) for Catalan, all created under the auspices of a large-scale project in preparation for the European Language Equality Programme, geared towards the development of strategic research, an agenda and a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030. 2 In this section, we will focus on describing some of the main language technology developments for Spain's co-official languages, paying particular attention to successful cases in which these language tools are currently being used by the public administrations -both central government and autonomous communities -to facilitate a relationship of equality for all languages.…”