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1) Subject:LDC Alignment Guidelines
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Date: 20 Apr 2010
From:Linguistic Data Consortium <<a href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a>>
Subject:LDC Alignment Guidelines
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Linguistic Data Consortium has created detailed guidelines for manual word alignment in Chinese-English and Arabic-English, for the DARPA GALE program. Corpora developed under these guidelines will be published in LDC's catalog in the coming months. <br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Arabic_alignment_guidelines_v4.0.pdf">http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Arabic_alignment_guidelines_v4.0.pdf</a> <br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Chinese_alignment_guidelines_v4.0.pdf">http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Chinese_alignment_guidelines_v4.0.pdf</a> <br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Chinese_WA_Tagging_Guidelines_V1.0.pdf">http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/gale/task_specifications/GALE_Chinese_WA_Tagging_Guidelines_V1.0.pdf</a> <br><br>We will also present two papers on our word alignment efforts at LREC 2010, which should be available in the proceedings and on LDC's website. <br><br>Enriching Word Alignment with Linguistic Tags - Xuansong Li, Niyu Ge, Stephen Grimes, Stephanie Strassel and Kazuaki Maeda <br><br>Creating Arabic-English Parallel Word-Aligned Treebank Corpora at LDC - Stephen Grimes, Xuansong Li, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick, Xiaoyi Ma and Stephanie Strassel <br></span><br></span></font></p><p align=""><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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