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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><big><small><br>
</small></big></font>ELRA is happy to announce that 1 new
Monolingual Lexicon, 3 new Speech Resources and 3 new Evaluation
Packages are now available in its catalogue.</small> <small><br>
Moreover, updated versions of the ESTER Corpus, ESTER Evaluation
Package and Bulgarian WordNet have also been released. <br>
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<b>1) New Language Resources:<br>
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ELRA-L0088 Arabic Morphological Dictionary<br>
</b>The Arabic Morphological Dictionary contains 7,912,551
entries, including 6,247,291 nouns, 1,537,499 verbs, 127,563
adjectives, 198 grammatical words. All files are provided as plain
text in UTF8 character encoding, which represents about 154 Mb of
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<b>ELRA-S0338 ESTER 2 Corpus<br>
</b>ESTER 2 Corpus, produced within the ESTER 2 evaluation
campaign, consists of a manually transcribed radio broadcast news
corpus amounting about 100 hours and quick transcriptions of
African radios amounting about 6 hours. An annotation of named
entities is provided within the development data (about 6 hours).
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<b>ELRA-S0339 Acoustic database for Polish unit selection speech
synthesis<br>
</b>This database contains parliamentary statements and newspaper
reviews read by a semi-professional male speaker. It consists of a
selection of 2150 sentences annotated and manually verified,
including 100 rare phonemes in words. The total duration of the
recordings is 3.45 hours. The database is phonetically annotated
and manually corrected, which represents a lexicon of 11761 words
with phonetic transcription. </small> <big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-S0342 Acoustic database for Polish concatenative speech
synthesis<br>
</b>This database consists of 1443 nonsense words including all
the diphones for the Polish language. The database includes
information such as: the name of the diphone, context of the
diphone, phonetic transcription in SAMPA, identifier of the wave
file where it is placed, and three numbers: the beginning, the
middle and the end of the diphone. </small> <big><big><big><big><span
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ELRA-E0035 DEFT'08 Evaluation Package<br>
</b>DEFT (DEfi Fouille de Texte – Text Mining Challenge) organizes
evaluation campaigns in the field of text mining. The topic of
DEFT 2008 edition is related to the classification of texts by
topics and genres. DEFT’08 Evaluation Package enables to compare
two corpora with different genres (a newspaper article corpus
extracted from Le Monde newspaper and a corpus of encyclopaedic
articles extracted from the internet free encyclopaedia,
Wikipedia) on the basis of the same set of pre-defined categories.
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<b>ELRA-E0039 CLEF QAST (2007-2009) – Evaluation Package<br>
</b>The CLEF QAST (2007-2009) contains the data used for the
Question Answering on Speech Transcripts tracks of the CLEF
campaigns carried out from 2007 to 2009. These tracks tested the
performance of monolingual Question Answering systems on
collections of audio transcriptions.</small> <big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-E0040 MEDAR Evaluation Package<br>
</b>The MEDAR Evaluation Package was produced within the project
MEDAR (MEDiterranean ARabic language and speech technology),
supported by the European Commission's ICT programme. It aims to
enable the evaluation of SLT /MT (Machine Translation) systems for
translation tasks applying to the English-to-Arabic direction. </small>
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<b>2) Updated Language Resources:</b></small> <small><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0241 ESTER Corpus<br>
</b><i>This new release contains 100 hours of orthographically
transcribed news broadcast (instead of 60 hours for the previous
release).</i></small> <small><br>
The ESTER Corpus is a subset of the ESTER Evaluation Package
(catalogue ref. ELRA-E0021), which was produced within the French
national project ESTER (Evaluation of Broadcast News enriched
transcription systems), as part of the Technolangue programme
funded by the French Ministry of Research and New Technologies
(MRNT). The ESTER project enabled to carry out a campaign for the
evaluation of Broadcast News enriched transcription systems for
French.<br>
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<b>ELRA-E0021 ESTER Evaluation Package<br>
</b><i>This new release contains 100 hours of orthographically
transcribed news broadcast (instead of 60 hours for the previous
release).<br>
</i>The ESTER Evaluation Package was produced within the French
national project ESTER (Evaluation of Broadcast News enriched
transcription systems), as part of the Technolangue programme
funded by the French Ministry of Research and New Technologies
(MRNT). The ESTER project enabled to carry out a campaign for the
evaluation of Broadcast News enriched transcription systems for
French. </small> <small><br>
This package includes the material that was used for the ESTER
evaluation campaign. It includes resources, protocols, scoring
tools, results of the campaign, etc., that were used or produced
during the campaign. The aim of these evaluation packages is to
enable external players to evaluate their own system and compare
their results with those obtained during the campaign itself. <br>
The campaign is distributed over three actions: orthographic
transcription, segmentation and information extraction (named
entity tracking).</small><big><big><big><big><span
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<b>ELRA-M0041 Bulgarian WordNet<br>
</b><i>This new release contains </i></small> <small>38209
synsets<i> (instead of 23715 synsets for the previous release).<br>
</i>The Bulgarian WordNet is a network of lexical-semantic
relations, an electronic thesaurus with a structure modelled on
that of the Princeton WordNet and those constructed in the
EuroWordNet and BalkaNet project. Bulgarian WordNet describes
meaning of a lexical unit by placing it within a network of
semantic relations, such as hypernyny, meronymy, antonymy etc. It
contains 38209 synsets, 83493 literals, 89242 relations (including
58095 semantic relations, 4172 extralinguistic relations). </small><big><big><big><big><span
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