LDC June 2024 Newsletter

LDC data and commercial technology development

New publications:

Diaspora Tibetan Speech

AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Annotation

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New publications:
 
Diaspora Tibetan Speech was developed at Yale University. It contains 28 hours of Tibetan elicited speech by 73 speakers from the diaspora Tibetan community in Kathmandu, Nepal, along with transcripts, elicitation materials and speaker metadata.

Recordings were collected in 2016. All speakers were adults and varied in age as well as age of diaspora. A substantial number of speakers were born in Nepal. Each speaker contributed one recording comprising a series of elicitation tasks: some demographic information; a word list and numbers; some sentences in isolation; a scripted story; and free speech based on "frog story" type illustrations.  Annotation and metadata formats include PDF and Word (some transcripts), Excel (some transcripts, speaker metadata) and Praat TextGrids (word and number lists). 

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

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AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Annotation was developed by LDC and is comprised of annotations for 29 English, Russian and Spanish documents (text, image and video) from AIDA Scenario 2  Practice Topic Source Data (LDC2024T04), specifically, the set of practice documents designated for annotation in Phase 2.

Annotations are presented as tab separated files in the following categories for each topic:

• Mentions: single references in source data to a real-world entity or filler, event, or relation. 
• Slots: pre-defined roles in an event or relation filled by an argument (entity mention).
• Linking: entity mentions linked to entries in the knowledge base as a method of indicating the real-world entity to which an entity referred.

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