LDC December 2023 Newsletter

LDC 2024 membership discounts now available  

Approaching deadline for Spring 2024 data scholarship applications

LDC closed for Winter Break Dec. 25-Jan. 1

New publications:

Kasdi-Merbah (University) Emotional Database in Arabic Speech

TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017
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LDC 2024 membership discounts now available 

Now through March 1, 2024, current 2023 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC for details on membership options and benefits. 

Approaching deadline for Spring 2024 data scholarship applications

Attention students: don’t miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2024 data scholarships are due January 15, 2024. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships. 

LDC closed for Winter Break Dec. 25-Jan. 1 

LDC will be closed from Monday, December 25, 2023 through Monday, January 1, 2024 in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy. Our offices will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Requests received by the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office reopens. 

New publications:
 
Kasdi-Merbah (University) Emotional Database in Arabic Speech was developed by the University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla and contains two hours of Modern Standard Arabic prompted speech from 500 speakers (254 female, 246 male) representing 5,000 utterances. Each speaker read ten sentences, with two sentences each for five different emotions (sadness, fear, anger, happiness, neutral).

2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment – Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017 includes all training and evaluation data developed by LDC for the Belief and Sentiment tracks: source documents (Chinese, English, and Spanish newswire and discussion forums); gold standard entity, relation, and event annotation; and belief and sentiment annotation.

The goal of the TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment track was to provide information about beliefs and sentiments held by entities toward other entities, as well as toward events and relations. The gold standard set of labeled entities, relations, and events was used to create a system for automatically labeling belief and sentiment about each possible target (entity, relation or event) and for identifying the entity holding the belief or sentiment. 

2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.