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<div align="center"><b>Agreement between AsiaNet and LDC<br>
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</b> LDC2006S15<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006S15"><b>CSLU:
Spelled and Spoken Words</b></a><br>
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LDC2006T03<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T03"><b>Korean
Propbank</b></a><br>
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LDC2006S30<br>
<a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006S30"><b>Speech
Controlled Computing</b></a><br>
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The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) would like to highlight recent
developments and announce the availability of three
new publications.<br>
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<div align="center"><b>Agreement between AsiaNet and LDC</b><br>
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LDC has recently entered into a data license agreement with AsiaNet, a
consortium of Asia Pacific news agencies headquartered in Australia.
AsiaNet translates and distributes full text (unedited) press releases
to all forms of media worldwide through its Asia Pacific agencies and
affiliates in the US, Canada and Europe. AsiaNet also has the capacity
to deliver images, audio and video releases.<br>
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The LDC/AsiaNet agreement gives LDC access to AsiaNet’s multilingual
texts. LDC is already utilizing AsiaNet’s Urdu and Thai texts in the
Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL) project. <br>
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LDC and AsiaNet look forward to a long and fruitful association -
mutually supporting language-related education, research and technology
development. As it strengthens its ties with the LDC and becomes more
widely known, AsiaNet hopes to attract interest in its services through
its news agency contacts at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.asianetnews.net/home.asp">http://www.asianetnews.net/home.asp</a><br>
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<div align="center"><b>New Publications from the LDC<br>
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<p>The <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006S15">CSLU:
Spelled and Spoken Words</a> corpus consists of spelled and
spoken words. 3647 callers were prompted to to say and spell their
first and last names, to say what city they grew up in and what city
they were calling from, and to answer two yes/no questions. In order to
collect sufficient instances of each letter, 1371 callers also recited
the English alphabet with pauses between the letters. Each call was
transcribed by two people, and all differences were resolved. In
addition, a subset of 2648 calls has been phonetically labeled. <br>
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<h3 align="center">*<br>
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<p><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T03">Korean
Propbank</a> is a semantic annotation of the Korean
English Treebank Annotations and Korean Treebank version 2.0. Each verb
and adjective occurring in the Treebank has been treated as a semantic
predicate and the surrounding text has been annotated for arguments and
adjuncts of the predicate. The verbs and adjectives have also been
tagged with coarse grained senses. <br>
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<p>There are two basic components to Korean Propbank:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Verb Lexicon. A frames file, consisting of one or more frame
sets, has been created for each predicate occurring in the Treebank.
These files serve as a reference for the annotators and for users of
the data. 2,749 such files have been created. </li>
<li>The Annotation. There are two annotation files. The
virginia-verbs.pb file has 9,588 annotated predicate tokens. These
predicate tokens include all those occurring in over 54 thousand words
of the Korean English Treebank Annotations, totaling ~791 KB of
uncompressed data. The newswire-verbs.pb file has 23,707 annotated
predicate tokens. These predicate tokens include all those occurring in
over 131 thousand words of the Korean Treebank version 2.0.</li>
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<p>The <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006S30">Speech
Controlled Computing</a> corpus was designed to support the
development of small footprint, embedded ASR applications in the domain
of voice control for the home. It consists of the recordings of 125
speakers of American English from four regions, three age groups and
two gender groups, pronouncing isolated words. The recordings were
conducted in a sound-attenuated room, and a high-quality microphone was
used. Each speaker read a randomized word list consisting of 2100 words
(100 distinct words appearing 21 times each).</p>
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<div align="center">**NOTE: Nonmembers may obtain a commercial rights
license to Speech Controlled Computing for US$7000 by signing the LDC <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/mem_agree/SCC_User_Agreement.htm">User
License Agreement for Speech Controlled Computing</a>. For-Profit
Membership to
the LDC is not required.**<br>
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information, or would like to inquire about
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