Eneko Agirre
Eneko Agirre researches multilingual word meaning and language technology. His shared 1996 paper with German Rigau uses conceptual density and WordNet to disambiguate nouns. In 2016, he worked with collaborators on interlingual representations in Spanish, Basque and English. ACL elected him a Fellow in 2021 for contributions that include semantic similarity, translation and Basque resources. In January 2022, he directed HiTZ and belonged to Ixa.
- Now at
- University of the Basque Country
- Works
- 353
- Citations
- 14,503
- h-index
- 53
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1996
Resolving ambiguous words
Agirre and German Rigau’s original 1996 paper uses WordNet’s noun hierarchy and a conceptual-density measure to select meanings in context. The work evaluates a method for ambiguous nouns on SemCor texts.
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2016
Meanings across languages
Agirre worked with Aitor Soroa, Oier López de la Calle and Josu Goikoetxea on a shared project. The project learns interlingual representations of words and concepts from documents, with research focused on Spanish, Basque and English. It aims to connect meanings across languages and improve meaning-aware retrieval.
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2021
Recognition in computational linguistics
ACL elected Agirre a Fellow in its 2021 cohort. His contributions include word-sense disambiguation, semantic similarity, machine translation and Basque resources.
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As of January 2022
Language research and its institutions
In January 2022, Agirre was a professor at EHU, director of the HiTZ language-technology center and a member of the Ixa research group.
Sources and credits
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