35.1222, FYI: April 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-1222. Tue Apr 16 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.1222, FYI: April 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: 15-Apr-2024
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: April 2024 Newsletter - LDC


In this newsletter:
New publications:
LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack
AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data
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New publications:
LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack was developed by LDC and is
comprised of approximately 4.4 million words of Hausa monolingual
text, 86,000 Hausa words translated from English data, and 30 minutes
of Hausa audio recordings. Approximately 96,000 words were annotated
for named entities and over 13,000 words were annotated for full
entity including nominals and pronouns. Noun-phrase chunking was
applied to more than 7,400 words. Over 9,600 words were labeled with
simple semantic annotation. Topic annotation was applied to the audio
recordings. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference,
social network, amateur web audio recordings, and weblogs.

LoReHLT was a companion project of the DARPA LORELEI program. The
LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was
concerned with building human language technology for low resource
languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative
languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage.

2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts.
Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data was developed by LDC and is
comprised of 1500 root documents (text, image, and video) from
English, Russian, and Spanish web sources. Each phase of the AIDA
program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with
related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or
evaluation subtopics. The Phase 2 scenario focused on the
socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela since 2010. This
corpus constitutes the full set of topic-focused documents for Phase 2
practice subtopics.

The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives)
program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to
generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations
and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA
by collecting, creating and annotating multimodal linguistic resources
in multiple languages.

The knowledge base for entity detection and linking annotation for all
AIDA Scenario 1 and 2 corpora is available separately as AIDA Scenario
1 and 2 Reference Knowledge Base (LDC2023T10).

2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts.
Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics




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