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Renewal Discounts for Membership Year (MY) 2011</a></b></font>
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<i>New publications:</i><br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">LDC2010T13<br>
<b>- <a href="#atb">Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v 4.1</a></b> -</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">LDC2010T21<b><br>
- </b></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b> <a
href="#mt">NIST 2008 Open Machine Translation (OpenMT)
Evaluation</a></b></font>
-<br>
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<div align="center"><a name="discounts"> </a><font face="Times
New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Early Renewal Discounts for
Membership Year (MY) 2011</b></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b> </b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">LDC values the significant contribution
LDC members make through their continued support of the
consortium. We would like to invite new members, as well as all
current and previous members of LDC, to renew for Membership
Year (MY) 2011. For MY2011, LDC is pleased to maintain
membership fees at last year’s rates – membership fees will not
increase. Additionally, for the third straight year, LDC will
extend discounts on membership fees to members who keep their
membership current and who join early in the year.<br>
<br>
The details of our Early Renewal Discounts for MY2011 are as
follows:</span></font>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:
11pt;">Organizations who joined for MY2010, will receive a
5% discount when renewing. This discount will apply
throughout 2011, regardless of time of renewal. MY2010
members renewing before </span><span style="font-size:
11pt;">March 1, 2011</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
will receive an additional 5% discount, for a total 10%
discount off the membership fee.</span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:
11pt;">New members as well as organizations who did not join
for MY2010, but who held membership in any of the previous
MYs (1993-2009), will also be eligible for a 5% discount
provided that they join/renew before March 1, 2011.</span></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:
11pt; font-family: Times;">The following table provides exact
pricing information. </span></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">MY2011
Fee</span></b></font> </td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">MY2011 Fee<br>
with 5% Discount *</span></b></font> </td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">MY2011 Fee <br>
with 10% Discount **</span></b></font> </td>
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padding: 0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Not-for-Profit</span></strong></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;"> </span></font>
</td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: green;"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Standard</span></font> </td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">US$2400</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">US$2280</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">US$2160</span></font>
</td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: green;"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Subscription</span></font> </td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">US$3850</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">US$3657.50</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">US$3465</span></font>
</td>
</tr>
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<td colspan="2" style="border: 1pt solid windowtext;
padding: 0in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, Times,
serif"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For-Profit</span></strong></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
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style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"> </span></font>
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</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;"> </span></font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: green;"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Standard</span></font> </td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">US$24000</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">US$22800</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">US$21600</span></font>
</td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: green;"> </span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">Subscription</span></font> </td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">US$27500</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: navy;">US$26125</span></font>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0.75pt;">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">US$24750</span></font>
</td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:
11pt; color: navy;"><br>
* </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 0,
153);">For new members, MY2010 Members renewing for MY2011, and
any previous year Member who renews before March 1, 2011</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
<br>
</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: maroon;">**</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> For MY2010
Members renewing before March 1, 2011<br>
<br>
</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Publications for MY2011 are still
being planned and here are the working titles of data sets we
intend to provide:<br>
<br>
</span></font>
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<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Arabic
Gigaword Fifth Edition</span></font> </td>
<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">English
Gigaword Fifth Edition</span></font> </td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 3.75pt;">
<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Chinese
Gigaword Fifth Edition</span></font> </td>
<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">Indian Language POS Tagset: Sanskrit </font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 3.75pt;">
<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Digital
Archive of Southern Speech</span></font> </td>
<td style="width: 300pt; padding: 1.5pt; height: 3.75pt;"
valign="top" width="400"> <font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">OntoNotes 4.0</span></font>
</td>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt;">In addition to receiving new
publications, current year members of the LDC also enjoy the
benefit of licensing older data at reduced costs; current year
for-profit members may use most data for commercial
applications.<br>
<br>
</span></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span
style="font-size: 11pt;"> This past year,</span> </font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">the LDC members who joined
early or kept their membership current saved almost US$60,000
collectively on membership fees. In fact, almost 90% of our
members for MY2010 didn't pay full price for membership! <span
style="font-size: 11pt;"></span> B<span style="font-size: 11pt;">e
sure to keep an eye on your mail - all previous and current LDC
members have been sent an invitation to join letter and renewal
invoice for MY2011. Renew early for MY2011 to save today!</span></font><br>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt;">New Publications</span></b></font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-size:
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</span></font><a name="atb"> </a><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(1) </span><a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2010T13">Arabic
Treebank:
Part 1 v 4.1</a> was developed at LDC. It consists of 734
newswire <span style=""> </span>stories from Agence France Presse
<span style=""></span>with part-of-speech , morphology, gloss and
syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the <a
href="http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/ArabicTreebank/">Penn Arabic
Treebank (PATB) Guidelines </a>developed in 2008 and 2009. This
release represents a significant revision of LDC's previous ATB1
publications: <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T06">Arabic
Treebank:
Part 1 v 2.0 (LDC2003T06</a>) and <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2005T02">Arabic
Treebank:
Part 1 v 3.0 (POS with full vocalization + syntactic analysis)
(LDC2005T02)</a>. <br>
<br>
The ongoing PATB project supports research in Arabic-language
natural language processing and human language technology
development. The methodology and work leading to the release of
this publication are described in detail in the documentation
accompanying this corpus and in two research papers: <a
href="http://papers.ldc.upenn.edu/LREC2008/Enhancing_Arabic_Treebank.pdf">Enhancing
the
Arabic Treebank: A Collaborative Effort toward New Annotation
Guidelines</a> and <a
href="http://papers.ldc.upenn.edu/LREC2010/KulickBiesMaamouri-LREC2010.pdf">Consistent
and
Flexible Integration of Morphological Annotation in the Arabic
Treebank</a>. <br>
<br>
ATB1 v 4.1 contains a total of 145,386 tokens before clitics are
split, and 167,280 tokens after clitics are separated for the
treebank annotation. <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font><a name="mt"> </a><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">(</font><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">2) <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2010T21">NIST
2008
Open Machine Translation (OpenMT) Evaluation</a> is a package
containing source data, reference translations and scoring
software used in the NIST 2008 OpenMT evaluation. It is designed
to help evaluate the effectiveness of machine translation systems.
The package was compiled and scoring software was developed by
researchers at NIST, making use of broadcast, newswire and web
data and reference translations collected and developed by LDC. <br>
<br>
The 2008 task was to evaluate translation from Arabic to English,
Chinese to English, English to Chinese (newswire only) and Urdu to
English. Selected human reference translations and system
translations for the NIST MT08 test sets are contained in <a
href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2010T01">NIST
Open
Machine Translation 2008 Evaluation (MT08) Selected Reference
and System Translations LDC2010T01</a>. <br>
<br>
This release contains of 494 documents with corresponding sets of
four separate human expert reference translations. The source data
is comprised of Arabic, Chinese, English and Urdu news wire,
broadcast and weblog and newsgroup data collected by LDC in 2007.
The news wire and broadcast material are from Asharq Al-Awsat
(Arabic), Agence France-Presse (Arabic, Chinese, English),
Al-Ahram (Arabic), Al Hayat (Arabic), Assabah (Arabic), An Nahar
(Arabic), Al-Quds Al-Arabi (Arabic), Xinhua News Agency (Arabic,
Chinese, English), Central News Service (Chinese), Guangming Daily
(Chinese), People's Daily (Chinese), People's Liberation Army
Daily (Chinese), British Broadcasting Corporation (Urdu), Daily
Jang (Urdu), Pakistan News Service (Urdu), Voice of America
(Urdu), Associated Press (English), New York Times (English) and
Los Angeles Times/Washington Post Newswire Service (English). <br
style="">
<br style="">
This evaluation kit includes a single Perl script (mteval-v11b.pl)
that may be used to produce a translation quality score for one
(or more) MT systems. <br>
<span style=""> </span><br>
Additional information about these evaluations may be found at the
<a href="http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/mig/tests/mt/">NIST Open
Machine Translation (OpenMT) Evaluation web site</a>. <br>
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