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LDC2005S15<br>
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LDC2005T32<br>
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<big><font face="Times New Roman"><small>The Linguistic Data Consortium
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<font face="Times New Roman"><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/catalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T12">English
Gigaword Second Edition</a> is a comprehensive archive of
newswire text data in English that has been acquired over several years
by the LDC. This release includes all of the contents in the first
release of the English Gigaword corpus (LDC2003T05) as well as new data
from July 2002 through Dec 2004. Some minor updates to these documents
have been made; namely, the text portions of "story" type documents
have been line-wrapped such that each line does not exceed 80
characters. Documents of the other types have not been
modified. The corpus contains five distinct international sources of
English
newswire:
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Agence France Press English Service (afe)
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Associated Press Worldstream English Service (apw)
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Central News Agency of Taiwan English Service (cne)
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The New York Times Newswire Service (nyt)
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The Xinhua News Agency English Service (xie)
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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) collected
and transcribed 200 hours of Mandarin Chinese conversational telephone
speech from Mandarin speakers in mainland China. <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/catalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S15">HKUST
Mandarin
Telephone Speech, Part 1</a> contains the training and development sets
with 873 and 24 calls, respectively.
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All calls were operator-assisted, namely, an operator would call two
participants as scheduled to initiate a call. Subjects were asked about
demographic questions before they were bridged for normal conversation.
Their answers to the demographic questions were recorded on separate
files. Subjects were allowed to talk up to 10 minutes. With a few
exceptions,
most calls are of the maximum length.
Each side of a call was recorded on a separate wav file, sampled at 8
bits (a-law encoded), 8Khz. <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/catalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T32">HKUST
Mandarin Telephone Transcript Data, Part 1</a> is the
corresponding transcription for HKUST Mandarin Telephone Speech Data,
Part 1. Standard simplified Chinese characters, encoded in GBK
(CP-936), were used. The transcribed speech was segmented at natural
boundaries wherever possible and each segment is no more than 10
seconds long. The Chinese text is not segmented into words, though
there are occasional white spaces within some turns. HKUST Mandarin
Telephone Transcript Data, Part 1 is distributed via web-download.<br>
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