35.3247, FYI: November 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3247. Sat Nov 16 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.3247, FYI: November 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: 16-Nov-2024
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: November 2024 Newsletter - LDC


In this newsletter:
Join LDC for membership year 2025
Spring 2025 data scholarship application deadline

New publications:
LORELEI Yoruba Representative Language Pack
Samrómur Synthetic
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Spring 2025 data scholarship application deadline
Applications are now being accepted through January 15, 2025, for the
Spring 2025 LDC data scholarship program which provides university
students with no-cost access to LDC data. Consult the LDC Data
Scholarships page for more information about program rules and
submission requirements.
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New publications:

LORELEI Yoruba Representative Language Pack was developed by LDC and
is comprised of approximately 7.2 million words of Yoruba monolingual
text, 127,000 Yoruba words translated from English data, and 810,000
words of Yoruba-English parallel text. Approximately 77,000 words were
annotated for named entities, over 25,000 words were annotated for
full entity (including nominals and pronouns) and simple semantic
annotation, and around 10,000 words were annotated for noun phrase
chunking. 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 annotatannotation 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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Samrómur Synthetic was developed by the Language and Voice Lab,
Reykjavik University and contains 72 hours of Icelandic synthetic
speech, transcripts and metadata. Source sentences were extracted from
the Samrómur platform, comprised of texts and transcripts covering
various genres. Text was processed through a text-to-speech system
developed by Reykjavik University's Language and Voice Lab to generate
speech files. Synthesized speech was created with 44 voices (22 male,
22 female) at four different speed rates for a total of 220 speakers
and 62,700 utterances (with 285 sentences/speaker).

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 for a fee.

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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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