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      ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update<br>
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    <div>We are happy to announce that 1 new Speech Resource and 3 new
      Written Corpora are now available in our catalogue.  <br>
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    <div><strong>ELRA-S0371 PortMedia French and Italian corpus</strong><br>
      This corpus contains 700 transcribed dialogues from about 140
      French speakers and 604 transcribed dialogues from about 150
      Italian speakers (several dialogues per speaker). The method
      chosen for the corpus construction process is that of a ‘Wizard of
      Oz’ (WoZ) system. This consists of simulating a natural language
      man-machine dialogue. The scenario was built in the domain of
      touristic information and reservation. A manual transcription and
      semantic annotation of the corpus are provided with corresponding
      wave files.<br>
      For more information, see: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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    <div><strong>ELRA-W0078 NE3L named entities Arabic corpus</strong><br>
      The Arabic corpus contains 103,363 words coming from articles
      extracted from “Le Monde Diplomatique” newspaper, and published in
      2004. 2 named entity categories were taken into account: Time and
      Amount.<br>
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    <div><strong>ELRA-W0079 NE3L named entities Chinese corpus</strong><br>
      The Chinese corpus contains 79,302 words coming from articles
      extracted from “Le Monde Diplomatique” newspaper, and published in
      2001. 3 named entity categories were taken into account: Person,
      Place and Organisation.<br>
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    <div><strong>ELRA-W0080 NE3L named entities Russian corpus</strong><br>
      The Russian corpus contains 75,784 words coming from articles
      extracted from “Izvestia” newspaper, and published in 1995. 2
      named entity categories were taken into account: Time and Amount.<br>
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href="http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1228&language=en">http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1228</a><a
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      For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie
      Mapelli <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="mailto:mapelli@elda.org">mailto:mapelli@elda.org</a> <br>
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