35.2312, FYI: August 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2312. Thu Aug 22 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2312, FYI: August 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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


In this newsletter:
Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program

New publications:
LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack
Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts
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Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program
are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program
provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students
must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and
letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and
program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page.
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New publications:
LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack was developed by LDC and is
comprised of 28 million words of Uyghur monolingual text, 500,000
words of English monolingual text, 3.3 million words of parallel and
comparable Uyghur-English text, and 200,000 words annotated for simple
named entities and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text
data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools
for the Uyghur language that were used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT
2016 Evaluation.

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. In the evaluation
scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and
logistical support in a region where the incident language had
received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation
participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction
and machine translation, with limited resources and limited
development time.

Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup,
discussion forum, and reference material. Named entity annotation
identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes.
Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information
about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response
effort.

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

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Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts contains 109 hours of
Faroese prompted speech from 433 speakers (249 female, 184 male),
corresponding transcripts and speaker metadata. It is an extract from
the Basic Language Resource Kit 1.0 (BLARK 1.0) developed by the Faroe
Islands' Ravnur Project.

Speech data was collected in 2022. Speakers from all major dialect
areas in the Faroe Islands in three age groups -- 15-35, 36-60, and
61+ years -- read texts that included a word list, a phrase list,
closed vocabulary readings, and short texts. Recordings also contain
spontaneous speech. Orthographic transcripts are included.

2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts
provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license
agreement. Non-members may license this data at no cost.

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Membership Coordinator
Linguistic Data Consortium
University of Pennsylvania
T: +1-215-573-1275
E: ldc at ldc.upenn.edu
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      Philadelphia, PA 19104

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics




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