35.2527, FYI: September 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-2527. Tue Sep 17 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.2527, FYI: September 2024 Newsletter - LDC

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


In this newsletter:
LDC data and commercial technology development

New publications:
L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech
MATERIAL Somali-English Language Pack

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LDC data and commercial technology development
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pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC
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organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for
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product, or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult
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certain corpora. Visit the Licensing page for further information.
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New publications:
L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech was developed by King Saud
University (KSU) and contains approximately six hours of Modern
Standard Arabic read speech from 80 subjects, along with transcripts
and speaker metadata.

The speech data was collected in 2022 from 40 native and 40 non-native
speakers. Native speakers were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and
Palestine, and provided audio recordings through the crowd sourcing
platform Khamsat. Non-native speakers were Central and West African
students enrolled in KSU's Arabic Linguistics Institute; they provided
speech recordings on site. All subjects read a series of ten
sentences, repeating each sentence multiple times.

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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MATERIAL Somali-English Language Pack was developed by Appen for the
IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL
(Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any
Language) program. It contains 80 hours of Somali conversational
telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and
queries.

Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline)
from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 10% of
the speech files, and approximately 4% of the speech files were
translated into English. This release also includes domain
annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations.

The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the
ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to
find speech and text content using English search queries.

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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      Philadelphia, PA 19104

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics




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