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Contact Information
| Name | Julen Etxaniz |
| Professional Title | Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP |
| juletxara@gmail.com | |
| Location | Donostia, Basque Country, |
| Website | https://julenetxaniz.eus |
Professional Summary
Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP at HiTZ Center IXA Group EHU. Working on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages.
Experience
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2026 - present Donostia, Basque Country
Postdoctoral Researcher
HiTZ Center IXA Group (EHU)
Research on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages
- Large Language Models for Basque
- Multilingual evaluation and benchmarks
- Natural Language Processing
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2023 - 2026 Donostia, Basque Country
PhD Student
HiTZ Center IXA Group (EHU)
Research on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages
- Large Language Models for Basque
- Multilingual evaluation and benchmarks
- Natural Language Processing
Education
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2023 - 2026 Donostia, Basque Country
PhD
University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Language Analysis and Processing
- Working on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages
- Research at HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology
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2021 - 2022 Donostia, Basque Country
Master
University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Language Analysis and Processing
- Thesis on Grounding Language Models for Compositional and Spatial Reasoning
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2017 - 2021 Donostia, Basque Country
Degree
University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Computer Engineering
- Speciality in Software Engineering
- Final project on ProMeta system
Awards
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2024 Best Resource Paper Award
Association for Computational Linguistics
Award for the paper “Latxa - An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for Basque” at ACL 2024
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2017 -
2016
Skills
Research: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Multilinguality
Programming: Python, R, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C
Web Development: Hugo, Jekyll, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS
Languages
Basque : Native
Spanish : Native
English : Fluent (C1)
Interests
Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models, Multilingual NLP, Low-resource Languages
Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Transformers
Certificates
- Curso de Machine Learning Aplicado con Python - Platzi (2020)
- Curso de Redes Neuronales en Keras y Scikit-Learn - Platzi (2020)
- Curso Práctico de Regresión Lineal con Python - Platzi (2020)
- Curso de Desarrollo de Apps Móviles - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2020)