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title = "{Z}u{B}idasoa: Participatory Research for the Development of Linguistic Technologies Adapted to the Needs of Migrants in the {B}asque Country",
author = "Soto, Xabier and
Egurtzegi, Ander and
Oronoz, Maite and
Etxeberria, Urtzi",
editor = {Bouillon, Pierrette and
Gerlach, Johanna and
Girletti, Sabrina and
Volkart, Lise and
Rubino, Raphael and
Sennrich, Rico and
L{\"a}ubli, Samuel and
Volk, Martin and
Espl{\`a}-Gomis, Miquel and
Vandeghinste, Vincent and
Moniz, Helena and
Szoc, Sara},
booktitle = "Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 2",
month = jun,
year = "2025",
address = "Geneva, Switzerland",
publisher = "European Association for Machine Translation",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummit-2.9/",
pages = "75--76",
ISBN = "978-2-9701897-1-8",
abstract = "Recent years have witnessed the development of advanced language technologies, including the use of audio and images as part of multimodal systems. However, these models are not adapted to the specific needs of migrants and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) communicating in multilingual scenarios. In this project, we focus on the situation of migrants arriving in the Basque Country, nearby the western border between Spain and France. For identifying migrants' needs, we have met with several organisations helping them in different stages, including: sea rescue; primary care in refugee camps and in situ; assistance with asylum demands; other administrative issues; and human rights defence in retention centres. In these interviews, Darija has been identified as the most spoken language among the under-served ones. Considering this, we have started the development of a Machine Translation (MT) system between Basque and Darija (Moroccan Arabic), based on open-source corpora. In this paper, we present the description of the project and the main results of the participatory research developed in the initial stage."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T ZuBidasoa: Participatory Research for the Development of Linguistic Technologies Adapted to the Needs of Migrants in the Basque Country
%A Soto, Xabier
%A Egurtzegi, Ander
%A Oronoz, Maite
%A Etxeberria, Urtzi
%Y Bouillon, Pierrette
%Y Gerlach, Johanna
%Y Girletti, Sabrina
%Y Volkart, Lise
%Y Rubino, Raphael
%Y Sennrich, Rico
%Y Läubli, Samuel
%Y Volk, Martin
%Y Esplà-Gomis, Miquel
%Y Vandeghinste, Vincent
%Y Moniz, Helena
%Y Szoc, Sara
%S Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XX: Volume 2
%D 2025
%8 June
%I European Association for Machine Translation
%C Geneva, Switzerland
%@ 978-2-9701897-1-8
%F soto-etal-2025-zubidasoa
%X Recent years have witnessed the development of advanced language technologies, including the use of audio and images as part of multimodal systems. However, these models are not adapted to the specific needs of migrants and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) communicating in multilingual scenarios. In this project, we focus on the situation of migrants arriving in the Basque Country, nearby the western border between Spain and France. For identifying migrants’ needs, we have met with several organisations helping them in different stages, including: sea rescue; primary care in refugee camps and in situ; assistance with asylum demands; other administrative issues; and human rights defence in retention centres. In these interviews, Darija has been identified as the most spoken language among the under-served ones. Considering this, we have started the development of a Machine Translation (MT) system between Basque and Darija (Moroccan Arabic), based on open-source corpora. In this paper, we present the description of the project and the main results of the participatory research developed in the initial stage.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummit-2.9/
%P 75-76
Markdown (Informal)
[ZuBidasoa: Participatory Research for the Development of Linguistic Technologies Adapted to the Needs of Migrants in the Basque Country](https://aclanthology.org/2025.mtsummit-2.9/) (Soto et al., MTSummit 2025)
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