35.215, FYI: January 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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Subject: 35.215, FYI: January 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: 17-Jan-2024
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: January 2023 Newsletter - LDC


In this newsletter:
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New publications:
KASET – Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish Speech and Transcripts
LORELEI Farsi Representative Language Pack
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New publications:
KASET - Kurmanji and Sorani Kurdish Speech and Transcripts consists of
147 hours of telephone conversations (289 recordings) and broadcast
news (410 recordings) in two Kurdish dialects: Kurmanji Kurdish and
Sorani Kurdish along with transcripts covering 60 hours of those
recordings. Kurdish is spoken primarily in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and
Syria. Sorani and Kurmanji are the two widely spoken dialects of the
Kurdish language.

The telephone speech was generated from calls by native Kurdish
speakers in the United States to North American acquaintances in their
social network. The broadcast news audio was collected from multiple
streaming radio and television broadcast programs (narrowband and
wideband audio), many of which contained a mix of Kurmanji and Sorani
Kurdish. Native speaker auditors identified a 5-10 minute span from
each broadcast recording for transcription. Full telephone recordings
that passed the native speaker audit were transcribed. This release
includes speaker information, such as gender, year of birth, and
language.

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

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LORELEI Farsi Representative Language Pack was developed by LDC and is
comprised of approximately 250 million words of Farsi monolingual
text, 120,000 Farsi words translated from English data, and 751,000
words of found Farsi-English parallel text. Approximately 75,000 words
were annotated for named entities and up to 22,000 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).

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

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Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics




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