Morphosyntactic disambiguation and shallow parsing in computational processing of Basque

Abstract

Our goal in this article is to show the improvements in the computational treatment of
Basque, and more specifically, in the areas of morphosyntactic disambiguation and shallow
parsing. The improvements presented in this paper include the following: analyses of
previously identified ambiguities in morphosyntax and in syntactic functions, their
disambiguation, and finally, an outline of possible steps in terms ofshallow parsing based on
the results provided by the disambiguation process. The work is part of the current research
within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Basque, and more specifically,
part of the work that is being done within the IXA group.