Julen Etxaniz

According to our database, Julen Etxaniz authored at least 16 papers between 2023 and 2026.

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2026

BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data.

Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya, Diana Galván-Sosa, Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Francesca Padovani, Francois Meyer, Hai Hu, Julen Etxaniz, Laurent Prévot, Linyang He, María Grandury, Mila Marcheva, Negar Foroutan, Nikitas Theodoropoulos, Pouya Sadeghi, Siyuan Song, Suchir Salhan, Susana Zhou, Yurii Paniv, Ziyin Zhang, Arianna Bisazza, Alex Warstadt, Leshem Choshen

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

Challenging the Abilities of Large Language Models in Italian: a Community Initiative.

Malvina Nissim, Danilo Croce, Viviana Patti, Pierpaolo Basile, Giuseppe Attanasio, Elio Musacchio, Matteo Rinaldi, Federico Borazio, Maria Francis, Jacopo Gili, Daniel Scalena, Begoña Altuna, Ekhi Azurmendi, Valerio Basile, Luisa Bentivogli, Arianna Bisazza, Marianna Bolognesi, Dominique Brunato, Tommaso Caselli, Silvia Casola, Maria Cassese, Mauro Cettolo, Claudia Collacciani, Leonardo De Cosmo, Maria Pia di Buono, Andrea Esuli, Julen Etxaniz, Chiara Ferrando, Alessia Fidelangeli, Simona Frenda, Achille Fusco, Marco Gaido, Andrea Galassi, Federico Galli, Luca Giordano, Mattia Goffetti, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Lorenzo Gregori, Giulia Grundler, Sandro Iannaccone, Chunyang Jiang, Moreno La Quatra, Francesca Lagioia, Soda Marem Lo, Marco Madeddu, Bernardo Magnini, Raffaele Manna, Fabio Mercorio, Paola Merlo, Arianna Muti, Vivi Nastase, Matteo Negri, Dario Onorati, Elena Palmieri, Sara Papi, Lucia C. Passaro, Giulia Pensa, Andrea Piergentili, Daniele Potertì, Giovanni Puccetti, Federico Ranaldi, Leonardo Ranaldi, Andrea Amelio Ravelli, Martina Rosola, Elena Sofia Ruzzetti, Giuseppe Samo, Andrea Santilli, Piera Santin, Gabriele Sarti, Giovanni Sartor, Beatrice Savoldi, Antonio Serino, Andrea Seveso, Lucia Siciliani, Paolo Torroni, Rossella Varvara, Andrea Zaninello, Asya Zanollo, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Andrea Zugarini

CoRR, December, 2025

BERnaT: Basque Encoders for Representing Natural Textual Diversity.

Ekhi Azurmendi, Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Jaione Bengoetxea, Maite Heredia, Julen Etxaniz, Mikel Zubillaga, Ander Soraluze, Aitor Soroa

CoRR, December, 2025

Multimodal Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Case Study for Basque.

Lukas Arana, Julen Etxaniz, Ander Salaberria, Gorka Azkune

CoRR, November, 2025

Instructing Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Study for Basque.

Oscar Sainz, Naiara Pérez, Julen Etxaniz, Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Itziar Aldabe, Iker García-Ferrero, Aimar Zabala, Ekhi Azurmendi, German Rigau, Eneko Agirre, Mikel Artetxe, Aitor Soroa

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

HiTZ at VarDial 2025 NorSID: Overcoming Data Scarcity with Language Transfer and Automatic Data Annotation.

Jaione Bengoetxea, Mikel Zubillaga, Ekhi Azurmendi, Maite Heredia, Julen Etxaniz, Markel Ferro, Jeremy Barnes

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025

Truth Knows No Language: Evaluating Truthfulness Beyond English.

Blanca Calvo Figueras, Eneko Sagarzazu, Julen Etxaniz, Jeremy Barnes, Pablo Gamallo, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Rodrigo Agerri

Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2025

2024

Lessons from the Trenches on Reproducible Evaluation of Language Models.

Stella Biderman, Hailey Schoelkopf, Lintang Sutawika, Leo Gao, Jonathan Tow, Baber Abbasi, Alham Fikri Aji, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi, Sidney Black, Jordan Clive, Anthony DiPofi, Julen Etxaniz, Benjamin Fattori, Jessica Zosa Forde, Charles Foster, Jeffrey Hsu, Mimansa Jaiswal, Wilson Y. Lee, Haonan Li, Charles Lovering, Niklas Muennighoff, Ellie Pavlick, Jason Phang, Aviya Skowron, Samson Tan, Xiangru Tang, Kevin A. Wang, Genta Indra Winata, François Yvon, Andy Zou

CoRR, 2024

Latxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for Basque.

Julen Etxaniz, Oscar Sainz, Naiara Pérez, Itziar Aldabe, German Rigau, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Ormazabal, Mikel Artetxe, Aitor Soroa

CoRR, 2024

IKER-GAITU: Research on Language Technology for Basque and Other Low-Resource Languages.

Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe, Xabier Arregi, Mikel Artetxe, Unai Atutxa, Ekhi Azurmendi, Iker de la Iglesia, Julen Etxaniz, Víctor García Romillo, Inma Hernáez Rioja, Asier Herranz, Mikel Iruskieta, Oier López de Lacalle, Eva Navas, Paula Ontalvilla, Aitor Ormazabal, Naiara Pérez, German Rigau, Oscar Sainz, Jon Sánchez, Ibon Saratxaga, Aitor Soroa, Christoforos Souganidis, Jon Vadillo, Aimar Zabala

Proceedings of the Seminar of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing: Projects and System Demonstrations (SEPLN-CEDI-PD 2024) co-located with the 7th Spanish Conference on Informatics (CEDI 2024), 2024

BertaQA: How Much Do Language Models Know About Local Culture?

Julen Etxaniz, Gorka Azkune, Aitor Soroa, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Mikel Artetxe

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

XNLIeu: a dataset for cross-lingual NLI in Basque.

Maite Heredia, Julen Etxaniz, Muitze Zulaika, Xabier Saralegi, Jeremy Barnes, Aitor Soroa

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

Do Multilingual Language Models Think Better in English?

Julen Etxaniz, Gorka Azkune, Aitor Soroa, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Mikel Artetxe

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Short Papers, 2024

GITA4CALAMITA - Evaluating the Physical Commonsense Understanding of Italian LLMs in a Multi-layered Approach: A CALAMITA Challenge.

Giulia Pensa, Ekhi Azurmendi, Julen Etxaniz, Begoña Altuna, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios

Proceedings of the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2024), 2024

Latxa: An Open Language Model and Evaluation Suite for Basque.

Julen Etxaniz, Oscar Sainz, Naiara Miguel, Itziar Aldabe, German Rigau, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Ormazabal, Mikel Artetxe, Aitor Soroa

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

NLP Evaluation in trouble: On the Need to Measure LLM Data Contamination for each Benchmark.

Oscar Sainz, Jon Ander Campos, Iker García-Ferrero, Julen Etxaniz, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Eneko Agirre

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 2023