--- title: "Xabier Saralegi — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xabier Saralegi: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xabier Saralegi # Xabier Saralegi Xabier Saralegi has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Muitze Zulaika](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muitze-zulaika/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5067981207) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5067981207) · [73 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067981207) · [201 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067981207&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 30 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10702](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/108/#star-10702) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Xabier+Saralegi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xabier+Saralegi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xabier+Saralegi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xabier+Saralegi) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of the Basque Country** Leioa · Spain 2016–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-basque-country/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[BasqBBQ: A QA Benchmark for Assessing Social Biases in LLMs for Basque, a Low-Resource Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zulaika-2025-basqbbq-qa-benchmark-assessing-social/)** *(2025 · 15 citations)* Tools for measuring social bias in language models exist mostly for English and a few other major languages, so there has been no way to check whether LLMs reproduce stereotypes when working in Basque. 2. **[Are Social Biases in LLMs Consistent across Generative Tasks? A Case Study for Basque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zulaika-2026-are-social-biases-llms-consistent/)** *(2026)* Most evaluations of social bias in LLMs use multiple-choice formats. These miss the subtler stereotypes that can appear when models write freely, and the problem is worse for low-resource languages such as Basque, which have few culturally adapted test resources. The authors first reworked the BasqBBQ dataset with… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[EliXa: A Modular and Flexible ABSA Platform ↗](https://aclanthology.org/S15-2127/) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) · no summary yet**Iñaki San Vicente, Xabier Saralegi, Rodrigo Agerri*2015 · 65 citations* 2. **[BasqBBQ: A QA Benchmark for Assessing Social Biases in LLMs for Basque, a Low-Resource Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zulaika-2025-basqbbq-qa-benchmark-assessing-social/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Muitze Zulaika, Xabier Saralegi*2025 · 15 citations* 3. **[Are Social Biases in LLMs Consistent across Generative Tasks? A Case Study for Basque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zulaika-2026-are-social-biases-llms-consistent/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Muitze Zulaika, Xabier Saralegi, Julia Shershneva, et al.*2026* 4. **[Evaluating Translation Quality and CLIR Performance of Query Sessions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1064/) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yet**Xabier Saralegi, Eneko Agirre, Iñaki Alegria*2016* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Muitze Zulaika](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muitze-zulaika/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015) - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 30 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xabier-saralegi/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026