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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update<br>
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ELRA is happy to announce that QUAERO Structured Named Entity
Language Resources are now available in its catalogue. <br>
A Written Corpus and a Broadcast Resource annotated with Structured
Named Entities from the QUAERO Programme are now being released
(free for academic research):<br>
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<b>ELRA-W0073 Quaero Old Press Extended Named Entity corpus</b><br>
This corpus consists of the manual annotation of 76 newspaper issues
published in 1890-1891 and provided by the French National Library
(Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Three different titles are used
(Le Temps, La Croix and Le Figaro) for a total of 295 pages. The
corpus is fully manually annotated according to the Quaero extended
and structured named entity definition.<br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1194&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1194&language=en</a><br>
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<b>ELRA-S0349 Quaero Broadcast News Extended Named Entity corpus</b><br>
This corpus consists of the manual annotation of (i) the ESTER 2
(see also ELRA-S0338) manual transcription corpus and (ii) the
Quaero Speech Recognition Evaluation corpus (manual and automatic
transcriptions coming from 3 different ASR systems). The corpus is
fully manually annotated according to the Quaero extended and
structured named entity definition.<br>
For more information, see: <a
href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1195&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1195&language=en</a><br>
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These two corpora are described in :<br>
S. Rosset, C. Grouin, K. Fort, O. Galibert, J. Kahn, P. Zweigenbaum.
Structured Named Entities in two distinct press corpora:
Contemporary Broadcast News and Old Newspapers. In Proc. of LAW VI,
2012.<br>
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QUAERO is a research and innovation program adressing automatic
processing of multimedia and multilingual content aiming at the
development of new tools for navigating in large volumes of text and
audiovisual content. The research and development undertaken covers
automatic information retrieval, analysis, segmentation and
classification of text, speech, music, image and video. The program,
supported by OSEO, gathers 32 French and German partners -- large
groups, small and medium size enterprises, research laboratories and
public organizations. The program consists of a number of
application projects aiming at industrial targets and markets that
are supported by a common shared research structure. Real world
data sets (corpora) are used to define the evaluation tasks and to
conduct the research challenges between partners. The use of
systematic periodic technology evaluation allows to assess progress
made and to select the most promising technical and scientific
approaches. After nearly five years of existence, Quaero is a very
active eco-system that has produced in excess of 700 scientific
publications, more than 25 awards, numerous top 3 rankings in
technology evaluation campaigns, 31 patent applications and many
innovative prototypes.<br>
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To find out more about QUAERO, please visit the following website: <a
href="http://www.quaero.org">http://www.quaero.org</a><br>
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For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie
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