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<div align="center">The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to
announce the availability of three (3) new databases. <br>
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(1) The <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004L02">Buckwalter
Arabic Morphological Analyzer Version 2.0</a> consists
primarily of three Arabic-English lexicon files:
prefixes (299 entries), suffixes (618 entries), and stems (82158
entries representing 38600 lemmas). The lexicons are supplemented by
three morphological compatibility tables used for controlling
prefix-stem combinations (1648 entries), stem-suffix combinations (1285
entries), and prefix-suffix combinations (598 entries). The
documentation consists of a readme file with a description of the
lexicon files, the morphological compatibility tables, the morphology
analysis algorithm, a summary of stem morphological categories, and a
table with the author's Arabic transliteration system. <br>
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Institutions that have membership in the LDC for the Membership Year
(MY) 2004 will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Please
note that this corpus is designated 'Members Only' and is, therefore,
not available for nonmember licensing. You can find information on
becoming an LDC member at our <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Membership/FAQ_Members.shtml">Members
FAQ</a>.<br>
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<p>(2) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004S13">Fisher
English Training Speech Part 1 Speech</a> represents the first
half of a collection of conversational telephone speech (CTS) that was
created at the LDC during 2003. It contains 5850 audio files, each one
containing a full conversation of up to 10 minutes. The individual
audio files are presented in NIST SPHERE format, and contain
two-channel mu-law sample data; "shorten" compression has been applied
to all files. Fisher English Training Speech Part 1 Speech is
distributed on seven DVD-ROM.</p>
<p> Institutions that have membership in the LDC for the Membership
Year
(MY) 2004 will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
Nonmembers may license this corpus for US$7000.<br>
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<p>(3) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004T19">Fisher
English Training Speech Part 1 Transcripts</a> represents the
first half of a collection of conversational telephone speech (CTS)
that was created at the LDC. It contains transcript data for 5850
complete conversations, each lasting up to 10 minutes. In addition to
the transcriptions, there
is a complete set of tables describing the speakers, the properties of
the telephone calls, and the set of topics that were used to initiate
the conversations. Fisher English
Training Speech Part I Transcripts is distributed on one CD-ROM.</p>
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Institutions that have membership in the LDC for the Membership Year
(MY) 2004 will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
Nonmembers may license this corpus for US$1000.<br>
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<div align="left">For further information on LDC data, please visit our
<a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/">online
catalog</a>. Should you have any questions concerning the licensing of
data or if you are interested in membership to the LDC,
please call +1 215 573 1275 or email <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a>.<br>
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