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[Magali Jeanmaire]

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	ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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We are happy to announce that new resources are now
available in our LRs catalogue:

Spoken Language Resources:
ELRA-S0152: Basque FDB-1060 database (SpeechDat-like)
ELRA-S0153: Bizkaifon (Bizkaieraren Fonoteka)

Written Language Resource:
ELRA-W0036-01:"Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - Archives
1980-1998
ELRA-W0036-02: "Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - Archives
from 1999
ELRA-W0036-03: "Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in English

Short descriptions of these resources are given below. More detailed
descriptions are
available on our web sites, at www.elda.fr or www.elra.info.

*** S0152: Basque FDB-1060 database (SpeechDat-like)  ***
The Basque FDB-1060 database contains the recordings of
1,060 speakers of Basque recorded over the fixed telephone
network. Each speaker uttered around 43 read and spontaneous
items

*** S0153: Bizkaifon (Bizkaieraren Fonoteka)  ***
Bizkaifon contains sound archives and associated information
of dialectal varieties of spoken Basque. It consists of 21 hours
of spontaneous and read speech, recorded over a microphone
in a room, with orthographic transcription.

*** W0036-01:"Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - Archives
1980-1998 ***
Electronic archiving of "Le Monde Diplomatique" articles in French
from 1980 to 1998. The corpus is available in an ASCII text format.

*** ELRA-W0036-02: "Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in French - Archives
from 1999 ***
Electronic archiving of "Le Monde Diplomatique" articles in French
from 1999. The corpus is available in an ASCII text format.

*** ELRA-W0036-03: "Le Monde Diplomatique" Text corpus in English ***
Electronic archiving of "Le Monde Diplomatique" articles in English
from 1998. The corpus is available in an ASCII text format.

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We invite you to visit our web site and browse the catalogue of
Language Resources to obtain more information:
www.elda.fr or www.elra.info.

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