Euskaltzaindia presents a "balanced and open" corpus of Basque

The EHU is a new member of the Euskorpora association, which was created to promote and guarantee the Basque language in the digital sphere. Its mission is to create a digital corpus of Basque...

Euskaltzaindia has created the Basque Reference Corpus to keep abreast of the day-to-day use of Basque and to address the new challenges brought about by language technologies. "It is a balanced, open and collective corpus," explained the head of the Basque Language Institute, Andres Urrutia, today at a presentation in Bilbao to present the corpus. The tool is already available to the public. But what is a language corpus? "It is a large collect…

Euskaltzaindia presented this Monday at its headquarters in Bilbao, Euskararen Erreferentzia Corpusa (ECC), a project that was launched four years ago to learn about the day-to-day Basque language. The president of the Academy, Andrés Urrutia, has defined it as a “reference” project and that “pretends to gather the concrete and balanced details of the language, collecting samples from different fields, giving a reflection of the current Basque”.