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The UEU will be offering a postgraduate degree in Basque and Digitality during the 2024/2025 academic year

Jun 05, 2024

It will be an online postgraduate programme to train people wishing to promote Basque in the digital context.

ANETI AGM attended by TISA, Elhuyar and LANGUNE

May 31, 2024

On 23 May ANETI, the National Association of Translation and Interpreting Companies, held its Annual General Meeting in Barcelona.

Cases of high-impact use of Language Technologies

May 09, 2024

Langune, Emun and the HITZ centre conducted 17 interviews and received 282 responses to their questionnaire.

The Gipuzkoa Chamber awards the cooperative MLAKoop the Gipuzkoa Business Prize 2024

Apr 24, 2024

The cooperative MLAKoop, a LANGUNE member, has received the Services Company Award 2024 from the Gipuzkoa Chamber of Commerce.

Languages Lanean Congress brings together over 500 people

Feb 28, 2024

LANGUNE handled the technical secretariat of the Languages Lanean Congress organized by the Basque Government.

LANGUNE, going forward

Feb 28, 2024

2023 was a year of consolidation for LANGUNE. It gained new members, signed a collaboration agreement and participated in various congresses and events

Elhuyar presents its work on language technologies and artificial intelligence to the European Parliament

Feb 27, 2024

In an appearance at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg the LANGUNE member made its experience and track record available to other minority languages in Europe.

HiTZ Center develops Latxa, the largest language model for Basque

Feb 27, 2024

This first version developed by the HiTZ center, a LANGUNE member, will be essential for building chatbot-type tools for the general public.

Today sees the launch of the Automotive Dictionary, a specialised lexicon for the sector produced by six companies working in collaboration

Jul 10, 2014

The dictionary has gathered together about 2,637 items of the sector’s terminology and can be consulted over the Internet in six languages

5th LANGUNE General Assembly. Language industries in the Basque Country had a turnover of €278m in 2013

Mar 19, 2014

This figure means a 0.5% growth compared to the previous year, in a sector with a total of 5,058 employees in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, whose number of workers increased by 1.26% in the last year

Elhuyar Aholkularitza and EPIC, a European project for language management in businesses. Second meeting: Bath, England @elhuyar

Mar 13, 2014

ElhuyarAholkularitza will take part in the EPIC (Enhancing and Promoting International Business Communication) project to analyse the situation of language management in SMEs. The aim is to help businesses identify and resolve the communication problems that arise during the course of their everyday activities. Langune will be working as one of the external validators

@mondragonlingua Linguagaztea, innovation for english learning

Feb 17, 2014

MondragonLingua and Gaztea have signed an agreement to launch a new English learning system

@LANGUNE, the Language Industry Association of the Basque Country, sends the first newsletter to the international network

Feb 12, 2014

We are pleased to announce that the first copy of the newsletter related to the Language Industry of the Basque Country is already available

OpeNER FP7 project at FITUR, the International Tourism Trade Fair, from 22nd to 26th January 2014

Jan 23, 2014

The OpeNER project results will be presented at FITUR event from January 22nd to January 26th where some researchers of the OpeNER Consortium will attend target public

@LANGUNE, the Language Industry Association of the Basque Country, holds a briefing about the sector in Brussels

Oct 28, 2013

Along with the Delegation of the Basque Country for the European Union, Etxepare institute and the partner companies Elhuyar and Euskal Herriko Ahotsak, LANGUNE, the Language Industry Association of the Basque Country, holds a briefing named: “From bilingualism to multilingualism, a potential seed for the development of the competitiveness in our industrial sector”

@mondragonlingua provides interpreting services to death row survivor

Jul 23, 2013

In the interview given by American death row survivor Ray Krone to the Basque public radio, the interpreting department at Mondragon Lingua had the honour to translate the account of his impressive story

@Langune, the Basque precluster of Language industry, has a new office

Jul 01, 2013

LANGUNE wants to share with everyone that it has a new space in Mikeletegi Pasealekua 56, level 0 - Office No. 11

@mondragonLingua TV is born

Apr 29, 2013

MondragonLingua is launching a new channel for learning languages while watching videos

@IK4_TEKNIKER officially opens its new facilities

Apr 26, 2013

To culminate the various activities that have taken place throughout 2012 to present IK4-TEKNIKER's new headquarters at the Eibar Technology Pole (Basque Country), the new building will be officially opened in a ceremony scheduled to take place on the new premises on 10 April 2013

@codesyntax Niagarank.es, robot curation for news aggregation

Apr 24, 2013

It's been three weeks since we launched Niagarank.es, a news aggregator for Spain. Yesterday, I had the chance to speak about it at a the Master in Digital Journalism at IE Business School in Madrid, invited by professor Enrique Dans. Here's the presentation and some lines about Niagarank

@IxaGroup at the kick-off meeting of the LoCloud project

Apr 05, 2013

Ixa Group is one of the 32 partners in the consortium of the LoCloud (Local content in a Europeana cloud) Project that was presented on 19-20 March, at the National Archives of Norway in Oslo. The meeting gathered 32 partners from 28 different countries to present, plan and discuss the activities of the project over the next three years

@IxaGroup "Arbel digitala", a tool for writing verses in Basque is on line

Mar 27, 2013

Three members of the IXA Group (Manex Agirrezabal, Bertol Arrieta and Iñaki Alegria), in collaboration with the Association of Friends of Bertsolaritza (AFB, Bertsozale Elkartea) have developed a new product named Arbel digitala to train verse-makers, including language technology tools and verse-making. This new product was presented last January in the Koldo Mitxelena Library by Manex, Bertol, and the members of the AFB Aritz Zerain and Ixiar Eizagirre

UNAIDS' preferred terminology translated into Basque by UZEI

Mar 07, 2013

UZEI has published a glossary containing most of the terms and commonly used expressions recommended by UNAIDS in its Terminology guidelines, which are reviewed on a regular basis

"Let’s talk about multilingualism!"

Mar 04, 2013

@Langune is planning to attend the conference: "Let’s talk about multilingualism!", by Language Rich Europe, on 5 march in Brussels

@IxaGroup at the kick-off meeting of the NewsReader Project

Feb 07, 2013

@IxaGroup is one of the five partners in the consortium of the NewsReader Project (EU FP7 programme, grant 316404, Jan.2013 – Dec.2015) that was presented on Wednesday 23 January at VU University Amsterdam.

@langune at the Expolangues International Language and Culture Fair in Paris

Feb 01, 2013

This fair is designed to promote the learning of languages, defend multilingualism and develop international communication. So, Expolangues (http://www.expolangues.fr/indexELgb.html), is a unique event and this year 80 languages will be gathered and 24000 visitors are expected

IXA Taldea (EHU/UPV): Ixa Group is a new institutional member of EAMT

Jan 14, 2013

In 2012 Ixa Taldea became the 11th institutional member in the European Association of Machine Translation (EAMT), the organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology

Webinar: myths and truths about the corporate use of MACHINE TRANSLATION (mT)

Dec 16, 2012

José Blanco (CEO. The localization department), with long, relevant experience in the implementation of linguistic solutions oriented towards increasing productivity, Mr Blanco will talk about machine translation as a key tool to success.

MondragonLingua, on the Board of Advisors of Translators Without Borders (TWB)

Nov 07, 2012

Since both organisations have similar goals, just like in 2011 we gave financial support to TWB, this year we have accepted their invitation to be part of their Board of Advisors, serving their great cause with our knowledge and expertise

Precluster LANGUNE: The language industry, new strategic sector for the Basque Country

Oct 28, 2012

The Department of Industry, Innovation, Trade and Tourism of the Basque Government has selected Industry Association of Language in the Basque Country - LANGUNE as PRECLUSTER