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JAVIER DE MARTIN GIL

Bizintek 2018 Award (2019)

JAVIER DE MARTIN GIL has been nominated for the Bizintek 2018 Award “Premio Bizintek 2018 al Proyecto de Fin de Grado para Ingenieros” with his work “Modelo basado en redes neuronales para la predicción de disponibilidad de un sistema urbano de préstamo de bicicletas” (Neural network-based model for predicting availability in an urban bicycle loan system ) supervised by Aholab team member Ibon Saratxaga. In the end, he won the second prize of the award


Ixa taldea

The University of the Basque Country has recognized INMA HERNAEZ's academic and research career on the occasion of International Women's Day (2019)

Estas mujeres de la UPV/EHU destacan por su trayectoria docente, investigadora y divulgadora, y constituyen un ejemplo en sus áreas de conocimiento: Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas: Adela Asua Batarrita, catedrática de Derecho Penal Ciencias: Maribel Arriortua Markaida, catedrática de Cristalografía y Minerología Artes y Humanidades: Lourdes Oñederra Olaizola, catedrática de Filología Vasca Ciencias de la Salud: Begoña Ochoa Olascoaga, catedrática de Fisiología Ingeniería y Arquitectura: Inma Hernáez Rioja, catedrática de Ingeniería de Teoría de la Señal y Comunicaciones


Aitor Ormazabal

premio al mejor Trabajo de Fin de Grado en el congreso SEPLN2019 (Sociedad Española para el procesamiento del lenguaje natural) (2019)


Mikel Artetxe

MIKEL ARTETXE has received one of the Facebook grants for the completion of his doctoral thesis (2019)

MIKEL ARTETXEK Facebookek doktorego tesia egiteko ematen dituen beketako bat jaso du. Mikel UPV/EHUn egiten ari da doktoregoa, Informatika Fakultateko IXA ikertaldearen baitan, Hizkuntzaren Azterketa eta Prozesamendua Masterra amaitu ondoren. Doktorego tesia egiteko 21 beka eman ditu Facebookek aurten, munduko txoko guztietatik jaso dituen 900 eskarien artean. Facebook bekak bi urteko iraunaldia du eta 37.000 dolar estatubatuar ematen ditu urtean, gehi biltzarretara bertaratzea xede duen laguntza osagarri bat ere. Kanpoko sariek hemengo ikerkuntza goi-mailakoa eta interes handikoa dela erakusten dute “Facebook beka -azaldu du Mikel Artetxek- orain arte egindako lana aitortzera dator eta, halaber, babes garrantzitsua da nire ikerketa ibilbidean aurrera egiten jarraitzeko. Pertsonalki oso pozik nago, baina ez dut gure kolektiboak orokorrean pairatzen duen prekarizazioaren ikuspegia galdu nahi. Baldintza duinetan ikertzen jarraitzea ahalbidetuko didan erakundea atzerriko multinazional bat izateak berak hausnartzera bultzatu beharko gintuzke"

Ixa taldea

Ayuda de investigación de La Fundación BBVA (2019)


Eneko Agirre

Google faculty research awards 2019 (2019)

Google Faculty Research Awards, is a program focused on supporting the world-class technical research in Computer Science, Engineering and related fields performed at academic institutions around the world. These awards give Google researchers the opportunity to partner with faculty who are doing impactful research, additionally covering tuition for a student.

Eneko Agirre

Google faculty research awards 2018 (2018)


Olatz Perez de Viñaspre

Euskarazko Tesien VI. Koldo Mitxelena saria (2018)


Aitor Gonzalez

2017 Best Thesis Award at SEPLN (2018)

Aitor Gonzalez Agirre was awarded with the best MSc thesis Award 2018 by the SEPLN association.

Eneko Agirre, Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Iñigo López

best paper award of the CoNLL 2018 conference (2018)

Our work "Uncovering divergent linguistic information in word embeddings with lessons for intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation" received the Best Paper Award in CoNLL 2018 conference, in Brussels. Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka, Iñigo Lopez-Gazpio, Eneko Agirre (2018) Uncovering divergent linguistic information in word embeddings with lessons for intrinsic and extrinsic evaluation Proceedings of the 22nd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2018), pages 282–291. Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 1, 2018

Aitziber Atutxa, Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Nerea Ezeiza, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz, Alicia Pérez, Olatz Perez de Viñaspre

Best system at the shared task on Automatic Disability Annotation at Ibereval 2018 (2018)

This work was pursued by the IXAMed group in the DIANN-Ibereval 2018 task. The task consists of identifying disabilities within a collection of several abstracts from Elsevier journal papers related to the biomedical domain. These corpora include the annotation of negation when it applies to a disability. The evaluation of the task is divided in two sub-tasks; one corresponding to the detection of English entities and the other to Spanish entities. Our system achieves the best task F-score for both English and Spanish disability identification, showing the suitability of our approach even with quite small training corpus. Our F-score is 0.821 for English and of 0.786 for Spanish.

Aitziber Atutxa, Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, Nerea Ezeiza, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz, Alicia Pérez, Olatz Perez de Viñaspre, Xabier Soto

Best system for ICD-10 (International Classification of diseases) coding in French, Italian and Hungarian at CLEF eHealth 2018 (2018)

Hospital systems routinely assign disease codes (ICD10 codes) to medical records. The challenge stands on treating natural and non-standard language in which doctors express their diagnoses. We presented our system to the CLEF 2018 eHealth Evaluation Task 1 on Multilingual Information Extraction - ICD10 coding. This benchmark addresses information extraction in written text with focus on several languages, specifically Hungarian, Italian and French. The goal is to automatically assign ICD10 codes to diagnostic terms of death certificates. In total, fourteen teams participated: 14 teams submitted runs for the French dataset, 5 submitted runs for the Hungarian dataset and 6 for the Italian dataset. For death certificate coding, the highest performance was 0.838 F-measure for French, 0.9627 for Hungarian and 0.9524 for Italian.

Mikel Artetxe

Premios Nacionales de Fin de Carrera de Educación Universitaria 2013-2014 (2018)

Premios para estudiantes que hayan concluido sus estudios conducentes a un título universitario oficial de Grado o de Primer o Segundo Ciclo en centros universitarios españoles en el curso 2013-2014

Ixa taldea

Acknowledgment for the contribution made to the Basque community in the area of Information Technology (2018)

Acknowledgment given to the Ixa group by the bascophile association in San Sebastian Bagera (Bagera Donostiako Euskaltzaleen Elkartea) for the contribution made to the Basque community in the area of Information Technology.

Eneko Agirre, Mikel Artetxe, Gorka Labaka

The journal Science made a special mention (2018)

The journal Science made a special mention of the work done by the members of the group Mikel Artetxe, Eneko Agirre and Gorka Labaka in the article entitled Artificial intelligence goes bilingual without a dictionary.

Begoña Altuna, Maxux Aranzabe, Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza

Prize for the best work presented at the XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2017). (2017)

The article EusHeidelTime: Time Expression Extraction and Normalisation for Basque, presented by the researchers Begoña Altuna, Maxux Aranzabe and Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza, won the prize for the best work presented at the XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2017).

Mikel Artetxe

Mikel Artetxe awarded in Hackaton on Language Technologies organized by Red.es (2017)

Mikel Artetxe IXAkideak bigarren saria lortu du Bartzelonan antolatu den Hizkuntza Teknologietako Hackatoian. Antolatzailea Red.es izan da, Espainian Hizkuntza Teknologiak sustatzeko Planaren barruan kokatuta dago ekitaldia eta SESIAD agentziaren babesa izan du.


Uxoa Iñurrieta

#Txiotesia3 award for Uxoa Iñurrieta. (2016)

Uxoa Iñurrieta Ixakideak irabazi du #txiotesia3 txapelketako sari bat, ekarpen ulergarrienaren saria izan da berea.


Eneko Agirre

Google Research Award (Eneko Agirre) (2016)

In 2016, Eneko Agirre received the Google Research Award, endowed with $ 50,000 for research on the measure of proximity between word meanings.


Begoña Altuna

Prize for the best work in Humanities at the conference for young researchers IkerGazte 2015. (2015)

The researcher Begoña Altuna received the prize for the best work in Humanities (Euskarazko denbora-egituren tratamendu automatikorako azterketa “Automatic analysis of time structures for Basque”) at the conference for young researchers IkerGazte 2015.

Olatz Perez de Viñaspre

Award for the most important contribution to the development of the Basque Country at the conference for young researchers IkerGazte 2015. (2015)

The researcher Olatz Perez de Viñaspre received the Udalbiltza award for the most important contribution to the development of the Basque Country (Osasun-txosten elebidunak posible ote? “Are bilingual medical reports possible?”) at the conference for young researchers IkerGazte 2015.

Mikel Artetxe

Mikel Artetxe Zurututza receives the Best Academic Record Award in Computer Science 2014 (2014)

UPV/EHUko Informatika Fakultateko 2013-2014 ikasturteko “espediente onenari diploma” eman diote Mikel Artetxe Ixakideari.

Itziar Gonzalez-Dios

Award for the best summary of a doctoral PhD thesis in the call Txiokatu zure tesia 6 mezutan, # Txiotesia2 “Tweet you PhD in 6 messages”, organized by the Summer Basque University UEU in 2014 (2014)

The researcher Itziar Gonzalez de Dios received the award for the best summary of a doctoral PhD thesis in the call Txiokatu zure tesia 6 mezutan, # Txiotesia2 “Tweet you PhD in 6 messages”, organized by the Summer Basque University UEU in 2014, for her work on automatic simplification of texts in Basque.

Ixa taldea

Acknowledgment granted by the City of San Sebastian (2013)

In 2013, the Ixa group got an institutional acknowledgment granted by the City of San Sebastian.


Ixa taldea

Anton Abadia award (2013)

In 2013, the Ixa group received the Anton Abadia award, granted by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa due to the impact of the group's work on the normalization of the Basque language.




Ixa taldea

Iñigo Lopez Gazpio receives the Best Academic Record Award in Computer Science 2013 (2013)

UPV/EHUko Informatika Fakultateko 2012-2013 ikasturteko “espediente onenari diploma” eman diote Iñigo Lopez Gazpio Ixakideari.


Ixa taldea

NewsReader Project winner of the 4th edition of the Enlighten Your Research (EYR4) competition (2013)

NewsReader proiektukoek, tartean IXA taldekoak ere badira, EYR4 lehiaketa irabazi dute! Albiste-jario handi-handiak automatikoki aztertzeko Enlighten Your Research (EYR4) lehiaketaren 4. edizioa izan da. Sariarekin batera hiru opari egiten ditu Amsterdam-eko Unibertsitateak: 25.000€, hodeiko konputagailu potente bat erabiltzeko baimena eta horretarako aholkularitza.

Manex Aguirrezabal, Ion Lizarazu

GipuzkoAPP apps contest, organized by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa in 2013 (2013)

Researchers Ion Lizarazu and Manex Agirrezabal won the GipuzkoAPP apps contest, organized by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa in 2013, with their application Segapoto, which helps the user to complete verses in Basque.

Arantxa Otegi

Arantxa Otegi received the Koldo Mitxelena prize 2013 (2013)

In 2013, the researcher Arantxa Otegi received the Koldo Mitxelena prize, organized by the Basque Language Academy and the University of the Basque Country, for the best PhD thesis in 2012 in the area of technical studies.

Maite Oronoz

Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui received the Koldo Mitxelena prize 2011 (2011)

In 2011, the researcher Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui received the Koldo Mitxelena prize, organized by the Basque Language Academy and the University of the Basque Country, for the best PhD thesis of 2010 in the area of technical studies.