32.960, FYI: March 2021 Newsletter - LDC

Tue Mar 16 11:52:16 UTC 2021

LINGUIST List: Vol-32-960. Tue Mar 16 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.960, FYI: March 2021 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 07:50:04
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: March 2021 Newsletter - LDC

In this newsletter: 
LDC data and commercial technology development 

New Publications:
Columbia Games Corpus
Global TIMIT Mandarin Chinese
BOLT Chinese Co-reference – Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational
Telephone Speech
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LDC data and commercial technology development
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Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations,
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information.
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New publications:
(1) Columbia Games Corpus was developed by the Spoken Language Group, Columbia
University and the Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University. It
consists of approximately 10 hours of spontaneous English conversation from 13
subjects playing a series of computer games that required verbal communication
to achieve joint goals of identifying and moving images on the screen to reach
a combined number of points. This publication also includes corresponding
manually time-aligned orthographic transcripts and annotation marking
discourse and turn-taking.

2021 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus
provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license
agreement. 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) Global TIMIT Mandarin Chinese was developed by LDC and Shanghai Jiao Tong
University and consists of five hours of read speech from Chinese Gigaword
Fifth Edition (LDC2011T13) with corresponding transcripts. Fifty speakers read
120 sentences; specifically, 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 3220 sentence types.

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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(3) BOLT Chinese Co-reference – Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational
Telephone Speech was developed by Raytheon BBN Technologies and consists of
co-reference annotation on Chinese informal text. Co-reference annotation aims
to fill in connections between specific mentions in the text that refer to the
same entities and events in the discourse context. BOLT co-reference
annotation was performed on BOLT treebank annotation (i.e., Chinese Treebank
9.0 (LDC2016T13)) and covers noun phrases (including proper nouns, nominals,
pronouns, and null arguments), possessives, proper noun pre-modifiers, and
verbs.

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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Membership Coordinator
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
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E: ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
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Philadelphia, PA 19104 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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