Arabic-L:LING:more LDC resources

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1) Subject:more LDC resources

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Date: 21 Mar 2007
From:ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
Subject:more LDC resources


(1) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech contains  
279 conversations totaling 45 hours of speech.  Levantine Arabic is  
spoken along the western Mediterranean coast from Anatolia to the  
Sinai Peninsula and encompasses the local dialects of Lebanon, Syria  
and Palestine. There are two distinct varieties: Northern, centered  
around Syria and Lebanon; and Southern, spoken in Jordan and  
Palestine.  The majority of speakers in Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech are from Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

The conversations in this corpus are a subset of the conversations in  
Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5, Speech, LDC2006S29. The  
individual audio files are in NIST SPHERE format. The corresponding  
transcripts may be found in Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational  
Telephone Speech, Transcripts, LDC2007T04.  Fisher Levantine Arabic  
Conversational Telephone Speech is distributed on one DVD-ROM.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part of  
their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$1000.

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(2) Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech,  
Transcripts contains the transcripts for the 279 telephone  
conversations in  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech , LDC2007S02.  The transcripts were created with "green" and  
"yellow" layers using LDC's Multi-Dialectal Transcription Tool  
(AMADAT). The green layer seeks to anchor dialectal forms to similar  
or related Modern Standard Arabic orothgraphy-based forms. The yellow  
layer is a more careful and detailed transcription that adds  
functionally necessary vowels and marks important sociolinguistic  
variations and morphophonemic features.

  The green layer transcripts in this corpus are a subset of the  
transcripts contained in Levantine Arabic QT Training Data Set 5,  
Transcripts, LDC2006T07. The yellow layer transcription was added in  
this release.  Fisher Levantine Arabic Conversational Telephone  
Speech, Transcripts is distributed via wed download.

2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of  
this corpus on disc. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part  
of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data  
for US$3000.


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