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  *   Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 1.0   *

               *   Voicemail Corpus Part II   *

             *   1997 HUB5 German Evaluation   *


The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of three new publications.


1.  The Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 1.0 was
created by Tim Buckwalter at Qamus for POS-tagging Arabic text.
The analyzer consists primarily of three Arabic-English lexicon files:
prefixes, suffixes, and stems.  The lexicons are supplemented by three
morphological compatibility tables used for controlling prefix-stem
combinations, stem-suffix combinations, and prefix-suffix combinations.

The LDC is releasing this software under the GNU General Public License:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

For information on commercial use, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002L49

Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer can be downloaded for free from
the above link.  If you would like a copy placed on CD-ROM, please note
that there is a $100 media charge.


2. The Voicemail Corpus Part II is the second voicemail corpus created
by Mukund Padmanabhan, Brian Kingsbury et al. at International Business
Machines.  This single disc publication is comprised of speech and
transcript files, and is separated into training and evaluation data.
The training data consists of 2048 voicemail messages and the
corresponding transcript files; the evaluation data consists of 50
voicemail messages and 50 transcripts.

For further information, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002S35

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2002 Membership
Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.  As a 'Members
Only' publication, the corpus is not available to nonmembers.


3.  The 1997 Hub5 Non-English evaluation is part of an ongoing series of
periodic evaluations conducted by NIST. These evaluations provide an
important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the
calibration of technical capabilities. They are intended to be of
interest to all researchers working on the general problem of
conversational speech recognition.

The Hub5 Non-English evaluation focuses on the task of transcribing
conversational telephone speech into text.  The 1997 HUB5 German
Evaluation is a single disc publications and contains nine hours of
speech data.  Transcripts are not included.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002S24

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2002 Membership
Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.  Nonmembers may
purchase this publication for $1000.


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If you need additional information before placing your order, or
would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email to
<ldc at ldc.upenn.edu> or call (215) 573-1275.


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