ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update

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ELRA is happy to announce that QUAERO Structured Named Entity Language 
Resources are now available in its catalogue.
A Written Corpus and a Broadcast Resource annotated with Structured 
Named Entities from the QUAERO Programme are now being released (free 
for academic research):

*ELRA-W0073 Quaero Old Press Extended Named Entity corpus*
This corpus consists of the manual annotation of 76 newspaper issues 
published in 1890-1891 and provided by the French National Library 
(Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Three different titles are used (Le 
Temps, La Croix and Le Figaro) for a total of 295 pages. The corpus is 
fully manually annotated according to the Quaero extended and structured 
named entity definition.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1194&language=en

*ELRA-S0349 Quaero Broadcast News Extended Named Entity corpus*
This corpus consists of the manual annotation of (i) the ESTER 2 (see 
also ELRA-S0338) manual transcription corpus and (ii) the Quaero Speech 
Recognition Evaluation corpus (manual and automatic transcriptions 
coming from 3 different ASR systems). The corpus is fully manually 
annotated according to the Quaero extended and structured named entity 
definition.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1195&language=en

These two corpora are described in :
S. Rosset, C. Grouin, K. Fort, O. Galibert, J. Kahn, P. Zweigenbaum. 
Structured Named Entities in two distinct press corpora: Contemporary 
Broadcast News and Old Newspapers. In Proc. of LAW VI, 2012.

QUAERO is a research and innovation program adressing automatic 
processing of multimedia and multilingual content aiming at the 
development of new tools for navigating in large volumes of text and 
audiovisual content. The research and development undertaken covers 
automatic information retrieval, analysis, segmentation and 
classification of text, speech, music, image and video. The program, 
supported by OSEO, gathers 32 French and German partners -- large 
groups, small and medium size enterprises, research laboratories and 
public organizations.  The program consists of a number of application 
projects aiming at industrial targets and markets that are supported by 
a common shared research  structure. Real world data sets (corpora) are 
used to define the evaluation tasks and to conduct the research 
challenges between partners. The use of systematic periodic technology 
evaluation allows to assess progress made and to  select the most 
promising technical and scientific approaches. After nearly five years 
of existence, Quaero is a very active eco-system that has produced in 
excess of 700 scientific publications, more than 25 awards, numerous top 
3 rankings  in technology evaluation campaigns, 31 patent applications 
and many innovative prototypes.

To find out more about QUAERO, please visit the following website: 
http://www.quaero.org

For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli 
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

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