Eneko AgirreView profile
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Eneko Agirre is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Informatics, University of the Basque Country. He is a leading researcher in Natural Language Processing with a strong focus on multilingual systems, particularly for the Basque language, and has published extensively in top NLP conferences including ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. His research spans multiple areas of computational linguistics including word sense disambiguation, machine translation, cross-lingual learning, and information extraction. Agirre has pioneered work on zero-shot learning approaches, data contamination issues in LLM evaluation, and low-resource language processing. His recent work includes developing the Latxa family of Basque language models and creating novel methods like WiCkeD for more challenging benchmarks and GUIDEX for zero-shot information extraction. Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong trend toward addressing fundamental challenges in large language model adaptation, evaluation reliability, and cross-lingual transfer learning. His work often combines theoretical insights with practical applications, particularly for under-resourced languages like Basque. His research demonstrates how linguistic typology impacts cross-lingual performance and how to overcome data limitations through innovative methodology. Agirre has mentored numerous researchers who have become active contributors to the NLP field, including Oscar Sainz, Jon Ander Campos, and Iker García-Ferrero. His collaborative work spans institutions across Spain and internationally, reflecting his standing in the global NLP community.
