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40,000th LDC Corpus Distributed!</b><br>
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In 2003, the LDC celebrated its tenth anniversary and the distribution
of our 15,000th corpus. At that time, the LDC recognized the continued
support of its constituent members by offering a free membership to the
university which had licensed the 15,000th corpus. Three short years
and many requests for data later, we are excited to have recently
distributed our 40,000th corpus! We would like to thank all
organizations which have licensed data for helping the LDC
reach this landmark distribution. The growing demand for LDC data from
over 2000 organizations supports our mission to develop and share<font>
resources for research
in linguistic technologies.</font> At the increased rate that we are
distributing corpora, we anticipate the swift observance of our
50,000th distribution. Stay tuned...<br>
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<div align="center"><b>New Publications<br>
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<p>(1) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T17">French
Gigaword First Edition</a> is a comprehensive archive of newswire
text data that has been acquired over several years by the Linguistic
Data Consortium (LDC) at the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>The two distinct international sources of French newswire in this
edition, and the time spans of collection covered for each, are as
follows: </p>
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<li>Agence France-Presse (afp_fre) May 1994 - July 2006 </li>
<li>Associated Press French Service (apw_fre) Nov 1994 - July 2006 </li>
</ul>
<p>The overall totals for each source are summarized below. Note that
the "Totl-MB" numbers show the amount of data you get when the files
are uncompressed (i.e. approximately 15 gigabytes, total); the
"Gzip-MB" column shows totals for compressed file sizes as stored on
the DVD-ROM; the "K-wrds" numbers are simply the number of
whitespace-separated tokens (of all types) after all SGML tags are
eliminated.</p>
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<td>Source</td>
<td>#Files</td>
<td>Gzip-MB</td>
<td>Totl-MB</td>
<td>K-wrds</td>
<td>#DOCs</td>
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<td>AFP_FRE</td>
<td>147</td>
<td>1139</td>
<td>3445</td>
<td>482904</td>
<td>1797139</td>
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<td>APW_FRE</td>
<td>141</td>
<td>389</td>
<td>1167</td>
<td>167405</td>
<td>622740</td>
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<td>TOTAL</td>
<td>288</td>
<td>1528</td>
<td>4612</td>
<td>650309</td>
<td>2419879</td>
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French Gigaword First Edition is distributed on one DVD-ROM. <br>
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<p>(2) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006S45">Iraqi
Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech</a> contains 276 Iraqi
Arabic speakers taking part in spontaneous telephone conversations in
Colloquial Iraqi Arabic. A total of 976 conversation sides are provided
(one speaker appears on two distinct calls). The average duration per
side is about 6 minutes.</p>
<p>This corpus was collected and transcribed in 2003 and 2004 by Appen
Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
Iraqi Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech
is distributed on one DVD-ROM.<b><br>
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<p>(3) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T16">Iraqi
Arabic Conversational Telephone Speech, Transcripts</a> contains
276 Iraqi Arabic speakers taking part in spontaneous telephone
conversations in Colloquial Iraqi Arabic. A total of 976 conversation
sides are provided (one speaker appears on two distinct calls). The
average duration per side is about 6 minutes. This corpus was collected
and transcribed in 2003 and 2004 by Appen Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
Iraqi Arabic Conversational
Telephone Speech, Transcripts
is distributed via web download.<b><br>
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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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