8.1552, FYI: North American News Text Corpus from the LDC

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1552. Wed Oct 29 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1552, FYI: North American News Text Corpus from the LDC

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Date:  Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:36:56 EST
From:  LDC Office <ldc at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  A New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium

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Date:  Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:36:56 EST
From:  LDC Office <ldc at unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
Subject:  A New Corpus from the Linguistic Data Consortium



                Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the
                   LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM

		 North American News Text Corpus


The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) announces the availability
of a corpus of North American news text.  This corpus is a
collection of journalistic text in English from newswire and
newspaper sources in the United States.

The North American News Text corpus is composed of news text
that has been marked using SGML.  The text is taken from the
following sources:

Source			   Dates 	  Aprox. #Words
			   Covered	  (Millions)
- -------------------------------------------------------
Los Angeles Times &	   05/94-08/97	   52
  Washington Post

New York Times News	   07/94-12/96	  173
  Syndicate

Reuters News Service	   04/94-12/96	   85
  (General & Financial)

Wall Street Journal	   07/94-12/96	   40
- -------------------------------------------------------

Both the New York Times and the L.A.Times/Washington Post services
actually include a range of other newspaper sources in their
syndicated newswires.  The L.A.Times/Wash.Post material will be found
to include the following sources (in lesser amounts) in addition to
the two predominant sources:

        Newsday
        The Baltimore Sun
        The Hartford Courant

The New York Times material will be found to contain the
following sources (in lesser amounts), but N.Y. Times articles
predominate:

        Bloomberg Business News
        The Boston Globe
        Los Angeles Daily News
        Fort Worth Star-Telegram
        Newsweek
        Cox News Service
        The Arizona Republic
        Seattle Post-Intelligencer
        San Francisco Examiner
        Houston Chronicle
        San Francisco Chronicle
        Economist Newspaper Ltd.
        Hearst Newspapers

Both of these newswire services also include small numbers of
articles from a larger set of miscellaneous sources.  The ones
listed above appear with some frequency on a daily basis.

Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders of the
news text, this corpus is available to 1995, 1996 and 1997 LDC
members only.  Members who wish to receive this corpus must
sign the North American News Text user agreement.  This
agreement is available on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW
Home Page at URL

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/index.html.

If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email
your request to ldc at unagi.cis.upenn.edu. If you need additional
information before placing your order, or would like to inquire
about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215)
898-0464.

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