Showing posts with label multi-language conversational telephone speech. Show all posts
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Friday, May 15, 2020

LDC 2020 May Newsletter

New Publications:
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New publications: 

(1) LORELEI Oromo Incident Language Pack was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 3.9 million words of Oromo monolingual text, 25,000 words of English monolingual text, 135,000 words of parallel and comparable Oromo-English text, and 50,000 words of data annotated for Entity Discovery and Linking and Situation Frames. It contains all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources and related software tools for the Oromo language that were used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2017 Evaluation. 

The evaluation protocol was based on a scenario in which an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time.

Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Entity Detection and Linking and Situation Frame annotations identified “entities,” “needs” (such as a need for food) and “issues” (such as civil unrest) to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information that would be useful for planning a disaster response effort. 

The knowledge base for the entity linking annotation in this corpus is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10).

LORELEI Oromo Incident Language Pack is distributed via web download.

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(1) LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base was developed by LDC and contains the full LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking (EDL) Knowledge Base (KB) used for all LORELEI Representative Language and Incident Language Pack entity linking annotation. 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 like natural disasters or disease outbreaks. 

The KB in this release supported the EDL task in LORELEI for four entity types -- geo-political entities (GPE), locations (LOC), persons (PER) and organizations (ORG) -- and contains a total of 10,216,832 entities. There are four inputs to the KB, each designated by a unique "origin" code in the KB, as follows: GPE and LOC entities from a snapshot of GeoNames, PER entities from the CIA World Leaders List, ORG entities from Appendix B of the CIA World Factbook, and additional entities manually created by LDC for each of the representative and incident languages in the LORELEI Program. 

LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base is distributed via web download.

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(3) BOLT English Translation Treebank - Chinese Discussion Forum was developed by LDC and consists of 147,432 tokens of web discussion forum data translated from Chinese to English and annotated for part-of-speech and syntactic structure. 

The source data is Chinese discussion forum web text collected by LDC in 2011 and 2012, translated into English and released in BOLT Chinese Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data (LDC2017T05). A subset of the translated text -- 148 files representing 147,432 tokens -- was selected for the treebank and annotated for word-level tokenization, part-of-speech and syntactic structure. Only the translated English text is included in the source data for this release. 

Part-of-speech and treebank annotation conformed to Penn Treebank II style, incorporating changes to those guidelines that were developed under the GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program. Supplementary guidelines for English treebanks and web text are included with this release.

BOLT English Translation Treebank - Chinese Discussion Forum is distributed via web download.

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(4) Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Mandarin Chinese was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 25 hours of telephone speech in Mandarin Chinese.

The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. The data was collected using LDC's telephone collection infrastructure, comprised of three computer telephony systems. Human auditors labeled calls for callee gender, dialect type and noise. 

LDC has also released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 series:
Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Mandarin Chinese is distributed via web download. 

2020 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2020 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. 

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Monday, May 20, 2019

LDC 2019 May Newsletter

New Publications:
Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- English Group  
IARPA Babel Guarani Language Pack IARPA-babel305b-v1.0c __________________________________________________________ 

New publications: 

(1) Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- English Group was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 18 hours of telephone speech in two general varieties of English: American and South Asian. 

The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. Calls are labeled by human auditors for callee gender, dialect type, and noise.   

LDC has also released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 series: 

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- English Group is distributed via web download.

2019 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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(2) TAC KBP Chinese Regular Slot Filling - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2014 was developed by LDC and contains training and evaluation data produced in support of the TAC KBP Chinese Regular Slot Filling evaluation track conducted in 2014. This release includes queries, the 'manual runs' (human-produced responses to the queries), the final rounds of assessment results, and the complete set of Chinese source documents.

The regular Chinese Slot Filling evaluation track involved mining information about entities from text. In completing the task, participating systems and LDC annotators searched a corpus for information on certain attributes (slots) of person and organization entities and attempted to return all valid answers (slot fillers) in the source collection.

TAC KBP Chinese Regular Slot Filling - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2014 is distributed via web download.

2019 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(3) CIEMPIESS Experimentation (Corpus de Investigación en Español de México del Posgrado de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Servicio Social) was developed by the Facultad de Ingeniería at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and consists of approximately 22 hours of Mexican Spanish broadcast and read speech with associated transcripts. The goal of this work was to create acoustic models for automatic speech recognition. For more information and documentation see the CIEMPIESS-UNAM Project website.

CIEMPIESS Experimentation is a set of three different data sets, specifically Complementary, Fem, and Test. Complementary is a phonetically-balanced corpus of isolated Spanish words spoken in Central Mexico. Fem contains broadcast speech from 21 female speakers, collected to balance by gender the number of recordings from male speakers in other CIEMPIESS collections. Test consists of 10 hours of broadcast speech and transcripts and is intended for use as a standard test data set alongside other CIEMPIESS corpora.

Most of the speech recordings in Fem and Test were collected from Radio-IUS, a UNAM radio station. Other recordings were taken from IUS Canal Multimedia and Centro Universitario de Estudios Jurídicos (CUEJ UNAM). Those two channels feature videos with speech around legal issues and topics related to UNAM. The Complementary recordings consist of read speech collected for that corpus.

LDC has released the following data sets in the CIEMPIESS series: 
CIEMPIESS Experimentation is distributed via web download.

2019 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data at no cost.

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(4) IARPA Babel Guarani Language Pack IARPA-babel305b-v1.0c was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Babel program. This corpus contains approximately 198 hours of Guarani conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2014 and 2015 along with corresponding transcripts.

The Guarani speech in this release represents that spoken in Paraguay. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 67 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.

IARPA Babel Guarani Language Pack IARPA-babel305b-v1.0c is distributed via web download.

2019 Subscription Members will receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.
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Monday, September 17, 2018

LDC 2018 September Newsletter


In this newsletter:

New Publications:



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New publications:

(1) BOLT Information Retrieval Comprehensive Training and Evaluation was developed by LDC and consists of all data produced in support of the Information Retrieval (IR) task within the DARPA Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) Program, including annotations, source documents and scoring software.

The BOLT IR task sought to support development of systems that could take as input a natural language English query sentence, return relevant responses to that query from a large corpus of informal documents in the three BOLT languages (Arabic, Chinese, and English) and translate responses from non-English documents into English. This release contains (1) natural-language IR queries, system responses to queries, and manually-generated assessment judgments for system responses; (2) discussion forum source documents in Arabic, Chinese and English; (3) scoring software for each evaluation phase; and (4) experimental data developed in Phase 2.

BOLT Information Retrieval Comprehensive Training and Evaluation is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(2) HAVIC MED Event E051-E060 -- Videos, Metadata and Annotation was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 53 hours of user-generated videos with annotation and metadata. To advance multimodal event detection and related technologies, LDC developed, in collaboration with NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), a large, heterogeneous, annotated multimodal corpus for HAVIC (the Heterogeneous Audio Visual Internet Collection) that was used in the NIST-sponsored MED (Multimedia Event Detection) task for several years. HAVIC MED Event E051-E060 is a subset of that corpus, specifically, a collection of event videos for the HAVIC Project originally released to support the 2016 Multimedia Event Detection task.

The data consists of videos of various events (event videos) and videos completely unrelated to events (background videos) harvested by a large team of human annotators. Each event video was manually annotated with a set of judgments describing its event properties and other salient features. Background videos were labeled with topic and genre categories.

HAVIC MED Event E051-E060 -- Videos, Metadata and Annotation is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(3) Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Spanish was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 23 hours of telephone speech in Spanish.
The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. Human auditors labeled the calls for callee gender, dialect type, and noise.

LDC has also released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 series:

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Spanish is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(4) IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Babel program. It contains approximately 203 hours of Kazakh conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2013 and 2014 along with corresponding transcripts.

The Kazakh speech in this release represents that spoken in the Northeastern and Southern dialect regions of Kazakhstan. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 64 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.

IARPA Babel Kazakh Language Pack IARPA-babel302b-v1.0a is available via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.


Monday, June 18, 2018

LDC 2018 June Newsletter

LDC Catalog certified as CoreTrustSeal data repository

LDC data and commercial technology development

New Publications:
IARPA Babel Cebuano Language Pack IARPA-babel301b-v2.0b
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LDC Catalog certified as CoreTrustSeal data repository
LDC is pleased to announce that the Catalog has been awarded the CoreTrustSeal for recognition as a trustworthy data repository. This means that the Catalog meets a series of standards covering data access, rights management, curation, and storage developed by the ISCU World Data System and the Data Seal of Approval. LDC joins the other 136 certified repositories around the globe in the commitment to promote sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures.  

LDC data and commercial technology development
For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing page for further information.

New publications:

(1) BOLT Chinese SMS/Chat was developed by LDC and consists of naturally-occurring Short Message Service (SMS) and Chat (CHT) data collected through data donations and live collection involving native speakers of Chinese. The corpus contains 14,877 conversations totaling 3,005,810 words across 497,543 messages.

The BOLT (Broad Operational Language Translation) program developed machine translation and information retrieval for less formal genres, focusing particularly on user-generated content. LDC supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources – discussion forums, text messaging, and chat – in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic, and English. The collected data was translated and annotated for various tasks including word alignment, treebanking, propbanking, and co-reference. The data in this release was collected using two methods: new collection via LDC's collection platform, and donation of SMS or chat archives from BOLT collection participants.

BOLT Chinese SMS/Chat is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(2) Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Central European was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 44 hours of telephone speech in two distinct language varieties of Central Europe: Czech and Slovak.

The data were collected primarily to support research and technology evaluation in automatic language identification, and portions of these telephone calls were used in the NIST 2011 Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE). Participants were recruited by native speakers who contacted acquaintances in their social network. Those native speakers made one call, up to 15 minutes, to each acquaintance. Human auditors labeled the calls for callee gender, dialect type, and noise.

LDC has also released the following as part of the Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 series:
·        Slavic Group (LDC2016S11)
·        Turkish (LDC2017S09)
·        South Asian (LDC2017S14)
·        Central Asian (LDC2018S03)

Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- Central European is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(3) TAC KBP English Entity Linking - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2009-2013 was developed by LDC and contains training and evaluation data produced in support of the TAC KBP English Entity Linking tasks in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. It includes queries and gold standard entity type information, Knowledge Base links, and equivalence class clusters for NIL entities. Also included are the source documents for the queries, specifically, English newswire, discussion forum, and web data. The corresponding knowledge base is available as TAC KBP Reference Knowledge Base (LDC2014T16). Also included in this package are the results of an Entity Linking IAA (Inter-Annotator Agreement) study conducted in 2010.

TAC KBP encourages the development of systems that can match entities mentioned in natural texts with those appearing in a knowledge base and extract novel information about entities from a document collection and add it to a new or existing knowledge base. English Entity Linking was first conducted as part of the 2009 TAC KBP evaluations. Its goal is to measure systems' ability to determine whether an entity, specified by a query, has a matching node in a reference knowledge base (KB) and, if so, to create a link between the two. If there is no matching node for a query entity in the KB, EL systems are required to cluster the mention together with others referencing the same entity.

TAC KBP English Entity Linking - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2009-2013 is distributed via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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(4) IARPA Babel Cebuano Language Pack IARPA-babel301b-v2.0b was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) Babel program. It contains approximately 191 hours of Cebuano conversational and scripted telephone speech collected in 2013 and 2014 along with corresponding transcripts.

The Cebuano speech in this release represents that spoken in the Cebu-North Kana, Sialo, and Mindanao dialect regions of the Philippines. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 75 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.

IARPA Babel Cebuano Language Pack IARPA-babel301b-v2.0b is available via web download.

2018 Subscription Members will receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2018 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee.