Dear Valérie,<div><br></div><div>The "free" price point is interesting especially for masters students who have the</div><div>desire to do actual research, but may have to provide the materials out of their own</div>
<div>pocket. For these people, a price of 200-500EUR is definitely out of reach (some would</div><div>balk at 50EUR, which I'd understand if you need to combine data from multiple resources</div><div>to carry out your research), and labeling these "at media cost" will not change this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I do think that LDC and ELRA play an important role in the ecosystem around language resources,</div><div>but I am also sure that, to ensure the widest possible use of a resource in academic research,</div>
<div>the most effective way is to make it available free of cost and under a liberal license,</div><div>as has been done with the Lefff. I understand that this is not always possible, but</div><div>I applaud the people behind Lefff (and similar resources) for making it a possibility.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Yannick Versley</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Valérie Mapelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mapelli@elda.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Dear Corpora readers,<br>
<br>
Recently, Ineta Sejane circulated a message listing a number of
French language resources. <br>
With the aim to contribute to the enrichment of this list, we
identified some language resources, with a French component,
available in the ELRA Catalogue, which are either free or at media
cost for research purposes. These are distributed as follows:<br>
<br>
<b>Written Corpora:<br>
</b><a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=84" target="_blank">W0003
CRATER corpus</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=85" target="_blank">W0004
ECI/MCI (European Corpus Initiative/Multilingual Corpus I)</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=51" target="_blank">W0013
TSNLP (Test Suites for NLP Testing)</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=438" target="_blank">W0015
Text corpus of "Le Monde"</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=534" target="_blank">W0017
MULTEXT JOC Corpus</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=535" target="_blank">W0018
ARCADE/ROMANSEVAL corpus</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=764" target="_blank">W0023
MLCC Multilingual and Parallel Corpora</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=594" target="_blank">W0025-01
A "scientific" corpus of modern French ("La Recherche" magazine) -
Raw data</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=595" target="_blank">W0025-02
A "scientific" corpus of modern French ("La Recherche" magazine) -
Complete version</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=634" target="_blank">W0032
Modern French Corpus including Anaphors Tagging</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=636" target="_blank">W0033
CRATER 2 Corpus</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=7" target="_blank">W0036-01
"Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - archives 1980-1998</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=9" target="_blank">W0036-02
"Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - archives from 1999</a><br>
<br>
<b>Lexicons:<br>
</b><a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=29" target="_blank">L0010
MULTEXT Lexicons</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=550" target="_blank">M0020
EuroWordNet French</a><br>
<br>
<b>Speech LRs:<br>
</b><a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=36" target="_blank">S0006
BREF-80</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=37" target="_blank">
S0007 BREF-POLYGLOT</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=758" target="_blank">
S0021 M2VTS Speaker Verification Database</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=80" target="_blank">
S0033 BDBRUIT</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=530" target="_blank">
S0060 MULTEXT Prosodic database</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=579" target="_blank">
S0088 Twin database - TWINDB1</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=760" target="_blank">
S0163 ILPho phonetic lexicon</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=988" target="_blank">
S0238 MIST Multi-lingual Interoperability in Speech Technology
database</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=999" target="_blank">
S0241 ESTER Corpus</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1119" target="_blank">
S0305 EPAC Corpus: orthographic transcriptions</a><br>
<br>
<b>Evaluation Packages:<br>
</b><a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=888" target="_blank">E0008
The CLEF Test Suite for the CLEF 2000-2003 Campaigns - Evaluation
Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=992" target="_blank">E0018
ARCADE II Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=993" target="_blank">E0019
CESART Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=994" target="_blank">E0020
CESTA Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=995" target="_blank">E0021
ESTER Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=996" target="_blank">E0022
EQueR Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=997" target="_blank">E0023
EvaSy Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=998" target="_blank">E0024
MEDIA Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1112" target="_blank">E0034
EASy Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1127" target="_blank">E0036
CLEF AdHoc-News Test Suites (2004-2008) - Evaluation Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1129" target="_blank">E0038
CLEF Question Answering Test Suites (2003-2008) - Evaluation
Package</a><br>
<a href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?cPath=42_43&products_id=626" target="_blank">W0029
Amaryllis Corpus - Evaluation Package</a><br>
<br>
Other French language resources and many other languages are
available both for research and commercial communities in our
catalogue that you may visit at: <br>
<a href="http://catalogue.elra.info" target="_blank">http://catalogue.elra.info</a><br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Valérie Mapelli<br>
<br>
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