Corpora: Spanish corpus

[LDC Office]

Dear Anna,

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) offers several
different Spanish conversational corpora.  We have
published approximately 300 telephone calls in
Spanish, known as the CallHome, CallFriend, and Hub-5
Spanish Corpora.  Each of these collections consists
of telephone calls lasting between 5 and 30 minutes
and includes documentation describing speaker
information.  Transcripts of the conversations are
available for the CallHome and Hub-5 collections.

We have also published 30 hours of Spanish broadcast
news collected from Televisa, Univision, and Voice Of
America (VOA).  Transcripts are also available for
this collection.

For further information about these corpora, please
visit our Catalog at
http://morph.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/by_type.html.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have
any questions.

Best regards,

Shannon Sears
Manager, Intellectual Property Rights and Membership
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> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:50:11 +0100
> To: CORPORA at hit.uib.no
> From: Anna-Brita Stenstrom <Anna.Stenstrom at eng.uib.no>
> Subject: Corpora: Spanish corpus
> Precedence: bulk
>
> Dear Corpus Linguists,
>
> A student of mine is interested in comparing the use of pragmatic
> markers in English and Spanish. So my question is: Does anybody
> know whether there such as a thing as a corpus of Spanish
> conversation? And one that it is possible to have access to?
>
> Regards,
>
> ABS
>
> Professor Anna-Brita Stenström
> Anna.Stenstrom at eng.uib.no English department
>        Phone +47 55582369 University of Bergen
>        Fax   +47 55589455 N-5007 Bergen
> Norway
>
>