36.655, FYI: February 2025 Newsletter - LDC

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Subject: 36.655, FYI: February 2025 Newsletter - LDC

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Date: 20-Feb-2025
From: Membership Coordinator [ldc at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: February 2025 Newsletter - LDC


In this newsletter:
LDC at LT4ALL 2025
LDC membership discounts expire March 3
Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients
New publications:
AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation
MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack
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LDC at LT4All 2025
LDC is pleased to be a sponsor of The 2nd International Conference on
Language Technologies for All (LT4All 2025), February 24-26, 2025,
organized by ELRA and SIGUL, the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on
Under-resourced Languages, and in partnership with UNESCO as part of
the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032). The
conference theme, "Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies,"
focuses on community empowerment within the larger discussion on the
many ways technology impacts language communities. The conference will
also commemorate the Silver Jubilee of International Mother Language
Day (February 21).
LDC membership discounts expire March 3
Time is running out to save on 2025 membership fees. Renew your LDC
membership, rejoin the Consortium, or become a new member by March 3
to receive a discount of up to 10%. For more information on membership
benefits and options, visit Join LDC.
Spring 2025 data scholarship recipients
Congratulations to the recipients of LDC’s Spring 2025 data
scholarships:
Sair Buckle: Charles Sturt University (Australia): PhD student, AI and
Cyber Futures Institute. Sair is awarded a copy of Avocado Research
Email Corpus LDC2015T03 for her work in behavioral science.
Le Phuoc Thinh Tien, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
(Vietnam); Bachelor’s student, Faculty of Information Technology. Le
is awarded a copy of Penn Discourse Treebank Version 3.0 LDC2019T05
for his research in natural logical reasoning.
The next round of applications will be accepted in September 2025. For
information about the program, visit the Data Scholarships page.
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New publications:
AIDA Scenario 3 Practice Topic Source Data and Annotation was
developed by LDC and is comprised of English, Russian, and Spanish web
documents (text, video, image) and annotations. Each phase of the AIDA
program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with
related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or
evaluation subtopics. The Phase 3 scenario focused on the COVID-19
global pandemic. This corpus contains source documents and annotations
for the Scenario 3 practice topics.
The corpus contains 1417 root documents; 279 documents were annotated.
Annotations include:
•       Event, relation, and entity annotation (64 documents)
•       Claim frame annotation: claims (true or not) relating to the
COVID-19 pandemic (203 documents)
•       Practice topic query claim frames: example claim frames
intended to be used by systems as queries to extract similar claims
from additional documents (30 documents)
The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives)
program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to
generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations,
and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA
by collecting, creating, and annotating multimodal linguistic
resources in multiple languages.
2025 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts.
Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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MATERIAL Georgian-English Language Pack was developed by Appen for the
IARPA MATERIAL program and contains 79 hours of Georgian
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 half of the speech files, and approximately 3% of
the speech data was translated into English. This release also
includes 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.
2025 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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