People

Current PhD Students

• Edgar Andrés Santamaría (2020-) (co-supervising with Aitziber Atutxa)
• Julen Etxaniz (2023-) (co-supervising with Mikel Artetxe)
• Ekhi Azurmendi (2024-) (co-supervising with Xabier Arregi)
• Markel Ferro (2025-) (co-supervising with Itziar Aldabe)

PhD Alumni:

• Oscar Sainz (2024, Postdoc at HiTZ Center - UPV/EHU)
• Ander Intxaurrondo (2015, Data Scientist at Pragsis Bidoop - Accenture)

Master Thesis:

• Juliana Planas. “Generating Neuropsychological Interpretations from Structured Test Data: A Low-Resource Table-to-Text Study” (co-supervised with Ander Barrena). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2026.
• Oier Ijurco. “Reasoning over Object Descriptions Improves Coreference Resolution in Task-Based Dialogue Systems·. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2025
• Markel Ferro. “Use of LLM Agents for creating an Environment-Situated Dialog System”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2025
• Ignacio Talavera. “Synthetic Data Generation for Sentence-level and Paragraph-level Information Extraction” (co-supervised with Oscar Sainz). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2025
• Ekhi Azurmendi. “Euskarazko lehen C1 ebaluatzailea automatikoa”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2024
• Francisco José Alguacil. “Measuring LLMs Output: Evaluation Metrics for Retrieval Augmented Generation Systems and Linkhub-eval Framework”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2024
• Anastasiia Chizhikova. “Knowledge Graph Question Answering for Migrant Employment”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2024
• Asier Zubia. “Exploration of Automatic Data Augmentation for Classification of Loss of Separation Reports”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2023
• Irene Baucels. “Entailment for Zero- and Few-Shot Text Classification in Catalan: Monolingual vs. Multilingual Resources and Task Transfer”. Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2023
• David Romero. Natural Language Inference Models for Few-Shot Text Classification” (co-supervised with Eneko Agirre). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2023
• Julen Etxaniz. “Grounding Language Models for Compositional and Spatial Reasoning” (co-supervised with Aitor Soroa). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2022
• Imanol Martínez. “Objektuen Antzemate Automatikorako datu-multzoen sorkuntza automatikoa” (co-supervised with Gorka Azkune). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2022
• Aner Egaña. “Exploration of annotation strategies for entailment-based Automatic Short Answer Grading” (co-supervised with Itziar Aldabe). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2022
• Maite Urra. “Neural Question Generation” (co-supervised with Javier Bejar). Master of Artificial Intelligence (UPC, URiV, UB). 2021
• Oscar Sainz. “Hizkuntza anitzeko erlazio semantikoen erauzketa medikuntza domeinuan” (co-supervised with Gorka Labaka). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2021
• Edgar Andrés Santamaría. “End-to-end approach for i2b2 2012 challenge based on Cross-lingual models” (co-supervised with Aitziber Atutxa). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2021
• Ander Salaberria Saizar. “Testu eta irudien arteko antzekotasun semantikoa aztertzen”(co-supervised with Eneko Agirre). Master of Ingeniería Computacional y Sistemas Inteligentes (EHU/UPV). 2019
• Cristina Aceta Moreno. “Unsupervised Methods to Predict Example Difficulty in Word Sense Disambiguation” (co-supervised with Eneko Agirre and Izaskun Aldezabal). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2018
• Harritxu Gete Ugarte. “Neural Natural Language Generation with Unstructured Contextual Information” (co-supervised with Thierry Etchegoyen). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2018
• Francis Damian Perez Sena. “Accommodations Deduplication” (co-supervised with Aitor Soroa). Master of Ingeniería Computacional y Sistemas Inteligentes (EHU/UPV). 2018
• José Darío Jiménez Paute. “Análisis y clasificación de información mediática electoral utilizando minería de texto” (co-supervised with Aitor Soroa). Master of Ingeniería Computacional y Sistemas Inteligentes (EHU/UPV)
• Ander Intxaurrondo González de Langarika. “Relation Extraction. Exploring Distant Supervision to minimize manual annotation” (co-supervised with Eneko Agirre). Master of Language Analysis and Processing. 2012

Final Dregee Projects:

• Iñigo Vilá. “Evaluación automática de LLMs en entornos virtuales” (co-supervised with Ander Salaberria). Artificial Intelligence degree. 2026
• Jiayuan Wang. “Adaptación a dominios específicos de LLMs en la tarea de texto a Cypher” (co-supervised with Ander Salaberria). Artificial Intelligence degree. 2026
• Unai Gómez. “Estudio y evaluación de un componente RAG integrado en un sistema conversacional basado en agentes de Inteligencia Artificial Generativa”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2026
• Mikel Larrarte. “Latxari irudiak ulertarazten: Euskarazko hizkuntza ereduak irudietara egokitzea” (co-supervised with Ander Salaberria). Artificial Intelligence degree. 2025
• Diego Fornies. “Un enfoque de evolución reflexiva de heurísticas multiobjetivo a través de modelos de lenguaje de gran escala”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2025
• Oier Martínez. “Enfoque de aprendizaje few-shot para la generación de distractores en preguntas educativas de opción múltiple” (co-supervised with Itziar Aldabe). Computer Science degree. 2025
• Josu Barrutia. “Adaptation of Visual Reasoners Based on Code Generation Through Fine-Tuning and Preference Optimization”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2025
• Unax Murua. “Conversión de lenguaje natural a consultas SQL mediante LLM pequeños”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2025
• Markel Ferro. “Comparison of learning efficiency using PEFT techniques”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2024
• Oier Ijurco. “A Study of Spatial Commonsense Reasoning in Current Language and Multimodal Models” (co-supervised with Gorka Azkune). Artificial Intelligence degree. 2024
• Eneko Amor.”Inferentzia bisuala Python kode bidezko arrazonamendua eginez”. Computer Science degree. 2024
• Itsaso Lejarza. “Entitateak euskaraz ezagutzeko etiketatze automatikoa urrutiko gainbegiratze-teknikak erabiliz”. Artificial Intelligence degree. 2024
• Telmo Briones. “Zer gertatzen da ikusmen-hizkuntza ereduekin? Ikusmen-hizkuntza ereduen arrazonamendu espazialaren azterketa”. Computer Science degree. 2024
• Ekhi Azurmendi. “Euskarazko laburpen automatikoak egiteko sistema baten garapena eta ebaluazioa” (co-supervised with Mikel Iruskieta). Computer Science degree. 2023
• Josu Loidi. “Entitateen eta erlazioen erauzketa testu klinikoetan datu etiketatu gutxirekin” (co-supervised with Aitziber Atutxa). Computer Science degree. 2023
• Mikel Zubillaga. “Hizkuntzen arteko transferentzia analisia Euskarazko Informazio-Erauzketan” (co-supervised with Oscar Sainz). Computer Science degree. 2023
• Paula Ontalvilla. “MIR azterketetan erantzun zuzena iragartzeko ezagutza-baseen eta hizkuntza-ereduen erabilpena”. Computer Science degree. 2023
• Imanol Martinez, “Modelo de interpretación de textos manuscritos (antiguos y modernos)” (co-supervised with Roberto Santana”. 2020
• Ander Merketegi, “Testu bidezko irudien deskribapenak sortzen” (co-supervised with Gorka Azkune). Computer Science Degree. 2020
• Maite Urra. “Galderen Sorkuntza Ikasketa Sakoneko Tekniken Bidez” (co-supervised with Montse Maritxalar). Computer Science Degree. 2019
• Aitzol Elu. “Hitz Adiera Desanbiguazio multimodala ikasketa sakona erabiliz” (co-supervised with Aitor Soroa). Computer Science degree. 2018