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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S13"><b><small>Fisher
English Training Part 2 Speech</small></b></a></big></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T19"><b>Fisher
English Training Part 2 Transcripts</b></a></font><br>
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LDC2005L01<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005L01"><b>Mawukakan
Lexicon</b></a><br>
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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of three new corpora.<br>
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<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S13">Fisher
English Training Part 2 Speech</a> represents the second half of a
collection of conversational telephone speech (CTS) that was collected
at the LDC. It contains 5849 audio files, each one containing a full
conversation of up to 10 minutes. Corresponding transcripts are
available as Fisher English Training Text Data, Part 2. </p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T19">Fisher
English Training Part 2 Transcripts</a> contains the corresponding
transcripts for the Fisher English Training Part 2 Speech collection.
About 12% of the conversations were transcribed
at the LDC, and the rest were done by BBN and WordWave, using a
significantly different approach to the task.<span style=""> </span>A
central goal in both sets was to<br>
maximize the speed and economy of the transcription process, and this
in turn involved certain aspects of mark-up detail and quality control
that may have been common in previous, smaller corpora. <br>
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<p><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005L01">Mawukakan
Lexicon</a> is the first publication of an on going project aiming to
build an Electronic Dictionary of four Mandekan (Eastern Manding
languages of the Mande Group of the Niger-Congo family). The lack of
written tradition makes such a dictionary project extremely important.
Our expectation is that once this initial goal reached, it will become
easier to extend the dictionary to all the other varieties of Mandekan.</p>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
lexicon is trilingual, that is, the
target language is Mawukakan, while English and French are used as
glossing
languages.</span> Both the Toolbox and the XML versions of this
dictionary use the Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. <font
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information, or would like to inquire about
membership to the LDC, please email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
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