Strategies for sustainable MT for Basque: incremental design, reusability, standardization and open-source
Iñaki Alegria, X. Arregi, Xabier Artola Zubillaga, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Gorka Labaka, Mikel Lersundi, Aingeru Mayor, Kepa Sarasola · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2008
We present some Language Technology applications that have proven to be effective tools to promote the use of Basque, a European less privileged language. We also present the strategy we have followed for almost twenty years to develop those applications as the top of an integrated environment of language resources, language foundations, language tools and other applications. When we have faced a difficult task such as Machine Translation to Basque, our strategy has worked well. We have had good results in a short time just reusing previous works for Basque, reusing other open-source tools, and developing just a few new modules in collaboration with other groups. In addition, new reusable tools and formats have been produced.