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Free Talkbank Corpora Still Available!</b><br>
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LDC2005T33<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T33">BBN
Pronoun Coreference and Entity Type Corpus</a></b><br>
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<p align="center">LDC2005T23<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T23">Chinese
Proposition Bank 1.0</a></b><br>
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<p align="center">LDC2005S25<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S25">Santa
Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English Part-IV</a></b><br>
<br>
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<p align="center">The Linguistic Data
Consortium would like to
announce the availability of
free Talkbank data and of three new corpora.<br>
<br>
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<p><a href="http://www.talkbank.org/">TalkBank</a> is an indisciplinary
research project funded by a five year NSF grant to foster research and
development in communicative behavior by providing tools and standards
for analysis and distribution of language data. The LDC distributes
the following Talkbank corpora:<br>
<br>
LDC2003V01 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003V01">FORM2
Kinematic Gesture</a> - gesture annotation scheme designed to capture
the kinematic information in gesture from videos of speakers<br>
<br>
LDC2003L01 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003L01">Grassfields
Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Lexicon</a> - spoken lexicon with 5000+ sound
files<br>
<br>
LDC2003S02 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003S02">Grassfields
Bantu Fieldwork: Dschang Tone Paradigms</a> - tone paradigms along
with phonetic and tonological transcriptions<br>
<br>
LDC2001S16 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2001S16">Grassfields
Bantu Fieldwork: Ngomba Tone Paradigms</a> - tone paradigms along with
phonetic and tonological transcriptions<br>
<br>
LDC2004L01 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004L01">Klex:
Finite-State Lexical Transducer for Korean</a> - for morphological
analysis and generation applications<br>
<br>
LDC2004T03 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004T03">Morphologically
Annotated Korean Text</a> - annotated morphological analysis and
part-of-speech tags<br>
<br>
LDC2003T15 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T15">SLX
Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews</a> - 8 interviews
conducted by William Labov, plus transcripts, variable survey and
annotation tools<br>
<br>
LDC2003S06 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003S06">Santa
Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English Part-II</a> - recordings of
natural speech from all over U.S.<br>
<br>
LDC2004S10 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004S10">Santa
Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English III</a> - recordings of
natural speech from all over U.S.<br>
<br>
LDC2005S25 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S25">Santa
Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English Part-IV</a> - over 5 hours of
recordings of natural speech from all over U.S.<br>
<br>
LDC2004S12 <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004S12">Talkbank
Ethology Data: Field Recordings of Vervet Monkey Calls</a> - 60
recordings with corresponding annotations<br>
<br>
Grant-sponsored copies for all of the above corpora are still
available. Shipping and handling charges apply. Please contact the
LDC
to learn if your organizaiton is
eligle to receive a free copy.<br>
</p>
<p align="center">*</p>
<p><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T33">BBN
Pronoun Coreference and Entity Type Corpus</a> supplements the 1
million word Penn Treebank corpus of Wall Street Journal texts
(LDC95T7). The corpus contains stand-off annotation of pronoun
coreference, indicated by sentence and token numbers, as well as
annotation of a variety of entity and numeric types. All annotation was
done by hand at BBN using proprietary annotation tools. This corpus was
developed by BBN to support the ACE and AQUAINT programs </p>
<p>The corpus contains two components: </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Pronoun coreference. Stand-off annotation of pronoun coreference
of the WSJ corpus is provided in a single file. Pronouns and
antecedents are indexed by sentence and token numbers.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Entity types. The corpus includes annotation of 12 named entity
types (Person, Facility, Organization, GPE, Location, Nationality,
Product, Event, Work of Art, Law, Language, and Contact-Info), nine
nominal entity types (Person, Facility, Organization, GPE, Product,
Plant, Animal, Substance, Disease and Game), and seven numeric types
(Date, Time, Percent, Money, Quantity, Ordinal and Cardinal). Several
of these types are further divided into subtypes. Annotation for a
total of 64 subtypes is provided.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
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<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T23">Chinese
Proposition Bank 1.0</a> is the first public release of the Penn
Chinese Proposition Bank project, which aims to create a corpus of text
annotated with information about basic semantic propositions.
Specifically, predicate-argument relations have been added to the
syntactic trees of Chinese Treebank 5.1 as an additional layer of
annotation.
<p>Chinese Proposition Bank 1.0 includes annotations of the first 250K
words of the Chinese TreeBank 5.1. There are a total of 37,183
propositions. Auxiliary verbs are not annotated. Some verbs have light
verb and non-light verbs uses and in these cases only the non-light
verbs are annotated. All the annotations in this release are the result
of double blind annotation followed by adjudication of differences. <br>
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<p><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005S25">Santa
Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English Part-IV</a> is based on
hundreds of recordings of natural speech from all over the United
States, representing a wide variety of people of different regional
origins, ages, occupations, and ethnic and social backgrounds. It
reflects many ways that people use language in their lives:
conversation, gossip, arguments, on-the-job talk, card games, city
council meetings, sales pitches, classroom lectures, political
speeches, bedtime stories, sermons, weddings, and more. The corpus was
collected by theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara Center for the
Study of Discourse.<br>
</p>
The audio data consists of 14 wave format speech files, recorded in
two-channel pcm, at 22050Hz. The speech files total 5.75 hours of audio
(1.5 GB), representing over 58000 words and over 6000 unique words in
the transcribed text. <br>
<br>
The cost of the first 100 copies of this publication (not counting the
copies distributed to LDC members) is covered by NSF Grant Number
BCS-998009, and therefore free of charge to qualified researchers; a
$30 shipping and handling fee applies. After these first 100 copies are
distributed, additional copies will be available for the production
cost of $200 per DVD-ROM.<br>
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membership to the LDC, please email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a> or call +1 215
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