32.3975, FYI: December 2021 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-3975. Wed Dec 15 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.3975, FYI: December 2021 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 22:01:04
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: December 2021 Newsletter - LDC

 
In this newsletter: 
LDC 2022 Membership Discounts Now Available 
Approaching Deadline for Spring 2022 Data Scholarship Applications 
Citizen Linguistics
LDC Closed for Winter Break Dec. 24-Jan. 4
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New Publications:
BOLT English Translation Treebank – Chinese SMS/Chat 
HAVIC MED Training Data – Videos, Metadata and Annotation 

LDC 2022 Membership Discounts Now Available
Now through March 1, 2022, current 2021 members receive a 10% discount for
renewing their membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5%
discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and
past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC for details on membership options and
benefits.  

Approaching Deadline for Spring 2022 Data Scholarship Applications
Attention students: don’t miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to
LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2022 data scholarships are
due January 15, 2022. For more information on requirements and program rules,
see LDC Data Scholarships. 

Citizen Linguistics
LanguageARC (https://languagearc.com), a citizen science web portal for
linguistics, continues to grow with 12 language research projects currently
available to the community. Two new projects seeking contributions from
citizen linguists have recently been added. The Fearless Steps project will
make thousands of hours of Apollo space mission communications accessible to
researchers and to the public. Contributors can listen to and annotate actual
audio recordings from the Apollo 11 space mission. A second new project, Les
stéréotypes en François, asks contributors to identify and classify
stereotypes that can be expressed in the French language. In addition to these
publicly available projects, LanguageARC also enables researchers to create
research projects restricted to defined private groups, such as the recent
object naming task to document the Guanzhong dialect of Mandarin. Here a
private, invited group of about 60 contributors yielded over 34,000 speech
recordings.

LDC Closed for Winter Break Dec. 24-Jan. 4
LDC will be closed from Friday December 24, 2021 through Tuesday, January 4,
2022 in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy.
Our offices will reopen on Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Requests received by
the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office
reopens.
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New publications:
(1) BOLT English Translation Treebank – Chinese SMS/Chat was developed by LDC
and consists of SMS/Chat text data translated from Chinese to English and
annotated for part-of-speech and syntactic structure.  

BOLT English Translation Treebank – Chinese SMS/Chat is distributed via web
download.  

2021 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2021 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) HAVIC MED Training Data – Videos, Metadata and Annotation was developed by
LDC and is comprised of approximately 2,100 hours of user-generated videos
with annotation and metadata developed for the 2011-2015 NIST-sponsored MED
(Multimedia Event Detection) tasks.

HAVIC MED Training Data -- Videos, Metadata and Annotation is distributed via
web download. 

2021 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus.
2021 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership
corpora. This corpus is a members-only release and is not available for
non-member licensing. 

Contact ldc at ldc.upenn.edu for information about membership.

Membership Coordinator
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
T: +1-215-573-1275
E: ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810
      Philadelphia, PA 19104 
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics





 



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