10.728, FYI: ELRA News, Research Support, Deadline Extension

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-728. Wed May 12 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.728, FYI: ELRA News, Research Support, Deadline Extension

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1)
Date:  Tue, 11 May 1999 17:18:14 +0200
From:  Valerie Mapelli <mapelli at elda.fr>
Subject:  ELRA News

2)
Date:  Tue, 11 May 99 20:13:10 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  MURI announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse

3)
Date:  Wed, 12 May 1999 19:16:47 +0300
From:  Iliyana Krapova <iliyana at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg>
Subject:  South Slavic and Balkan Lang/Extension

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 11 May 1999 17:18:14 +0200
From:  Valerie Mapelli <mapelli at elda.fr>
Subject:  ELRA News

___________________________________________________________
				ELRA
		European Language Resources Association
			       ELRA News
___________________________________________________________


		     *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***


We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:
	_______________________________________
	ELRA-S0063 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000
	_______________________________________

	The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000 consists of 4000 calls over
	the German fixed network, stored on 17 CD-ROMs in the final
	SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The speech databases
	made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX,
	the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat
	format and content specifications.

	The following items were recorded:
	- 1 isolated digit
	- 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits
	- prompt sheet number = 5
	- 9-11 digit telephone number (read)
	- 15-16 digit credit card number (read, 150 different credit card
	  numbers were found)
	- 6 digit PIN code (read)
	- 1 natural number (read)
	- 1 money amount (read)
	- 2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted)
	- 3 dates (1 spontaneous, e.g. birthday; 1 prompted text form;
          1 relative and general date form)
	- 1 time of day (spontaneous)
	- 1 time phrase (read)
	- 3 application words
	- 1 word spotting phrase
	- 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous name (e.g. forename),
	  1 spontaneous city name, 1 read city name (from a list of 500 most
	  frequent), 1 read company/agency name (from a list of 500 most
          frequent), 1 read proper name, fore- and surname (from list of
          150 SDB names).
	- 3 spellings (1 spontaneous, e.g. forename; 1 directory city name; 1
	  real/artificial word)
	- 4 isolated words
	- 9 phonetically rich sentences (read)

	The speech files are stored as sequence of 8-bit, 8kHz A-law speech
        files and are not compressed. Each prompt utterance is stored within
        a separate file and has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file.

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For further information, please contact :

     ELRA/ELDA		Tel : +33 01 43 13 33 33
     55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin	Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30
     F-75013 Paris, France	E-mail : mapelli at elda.fr

or visit our Web site:

     http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 11 May 99 20:13:10 EDT
From:  Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject:  MURI announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse



This is an call for proposals for the Multidisciplinary University Research
Initiative Program (DOD) The effort is on Tutorial Discourse and Susan
Chipman is POC.

     --------http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/special/onrpgadh.htm


Helen M. Gigley, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Office of Naval Research
800 N. Quincy Street (342)
Arlington, VA 22217-5660

phone: (703)-696-0407
fax:      (703)-696-1212
email:  gigley at itd.nrl.navy.mil


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Date:  Wed, 12 May 1999 19:16:47 +0300
From:  Iliyana Krapova <iliyana at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg>
Subject:  South Slavic and Balkan Lang/Extension



Please, note that the dealine for submission of abstracts has been
extended until 30.05.1999. We look forward to receiving your abstracts
and to seeing you in Plovdiv in September.

For more information about the conference, visit our website at the
address:
http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3

Best regards,
Iliyana Krapova
(on behalf of the Organizing Committee of FASSBL3)

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