31.3547, FYI: November 2020 Newsletter - Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

Wed Nov 18 11:13:52 UTC 2020

LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3547. Wed Nov 18 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3547, FYI: November 2020 Newsletter - Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 06:13:09
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: November 2020 Newsletter - Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

In this newsletter: 
Join LDC for Membership Year 2021
Spring 2021 Data Scholarship Application Deadline

New Publications:
Global TIMIT Learner Simple English
LORELEI Ukrainian Representative Language Pack 
TAC KBP Event Argument – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017
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Join LDC for Membership Year 2021 
Membership Year 2021 (MY2021) is open and discounts are available for those
who keep their membership current and join early. Current MY2020 members who
renew their LDC membership before March 1, 2021 will receive a 10% discount
off the membership fee. New or returning organizations will receive a 5%
discount when joining by March 1.

In addition to receiving new publications, current LDC members also enjoy the
benefit of licensing older data at reduced costs from our Catalog of over 850
holdings. Current-year for-profit members may use most data for commercial
applications.

For full descriptions of all LDC data sets, browse our Catalog.  

Visit Join LDC for details on membership, user accounts and payment.

Spring 2021 Data Scholarship Application Deadline
Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2021 for the Spring
2021 LDC Data Scholarship program which provides university students with
no-cost access to LDC data. Consult the LDC Data Scholarship page for more
information about program rules and submission requirements.
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New publications:
(1) Global TIMIT Learner Simple English was developed by LDC and Shanghai Jiao
Tong University and consists of approximately 12 hours of L1 and L2 English
read speech and transcripts. It is comprised of two separate data sets of 50
speakers reading 120 sentences from TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech
Corpus (LDC93S1) deemed “simple” to read by Chinese learners of English. Among
the 120 sentences, 20 sentences were read by all speakers, 40 sentences were
read by 10 speakers, and 60 sentences were read by one speaker, for a total of
820 sentence types. 

Global TIMIT Learner Simple English is distributed via web download.  

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership
corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(2) LORELEI Ukrainian Representative Language Pack consists of Ukrainian
monolingual text, Ukrainian-English parallel and comparable text, annotations,
supplemental resources, and related software tools developed by LDC for the
DARPA LORELEI program.

LORELEI Ukrainian Representative Language Pack is distributed via web
download.

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership
corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(3) TAC KBP Event Argument – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data
2016-2017 was developed by LDC and contains training and evaluation data
produced in support of the 2016 TAC KBP Event Argument Linking Pilot and
Evaluation tasks and the 2017 Event Argument Linking Training Evaluation task.

TAC KBP Event Argument – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017
is distributed via web download. 

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership
corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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