34.289, FYI: January 2023 Newsletter - LDC

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Subject: 34.289, FYI: January 2023 Newsletter - LDC

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From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: January 2023 Newsletter - LDC


In this newsletter:
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New publications:
AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and Telephone Speech Audio and Transcripts
LORELEI Swahili Representative Language Pack
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AIDA Ukrainian Broadcast and Telephone Speech Audio and Transcripts
and is comprised of approximately 156 hours of Ukrainian
conversational telephone speech and broadcast news audio with 1.2
million words of corresponding orthographic transcripts.

The news audio data was taken from 87 recordings broadcast by various
Ukrainian sources. The telephone speech was generated from telephone
calls by native Ukrainian speakers to acquaintances in their social
network. Native Ukrainian speakers manually segmented the data into
sentence-level units as part of the transcription process.

The broadcast recordings and transcripts were produced by LDC to
support the DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate
Alternatives) program which aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis
semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of
events, situations, and trends from a variety of unstructured sources.
The telephone speech audio recordings were collected by LDC to support
the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation  and are also contained
in Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 – Slavic Group
LDC2016S11.

2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts.
Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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LORELEI Swahili Representative Language Pack was developed by LDC and
is comprised of approximately 4.3 million words of Swahili monolingual
text, 90,000 Swahili words translated from English data, and 545,000
words of found Swahili-English parallel text. Approximately 100,000
words were annotated for named entities and up to 26,000 words were
annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames
(identifying entities, needs and issues). Data was collected from
discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs.

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.

The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available
separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base
(LDC2020T10).

2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts.
Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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