Conference Attendence by LDC

• LDC at Interspeech 2009 -- August 18, 2009
• LDC at ALA 2009 - Update -- July 17, 2009
• LDC at ALA 2009 and NAACL 2009 -- June 18, 2009
• LDC at MEDAR Conference -- May 22, 2009
• LDC at NWAV37 -- November 18, 2008
• LDC at the ALA Midwinter Meeting -- January 22, 2008
• LDC at NWAV36 -- October 17, 2007

LDC at Interspeech 2009 -- August 18, 2009

LDC is pleased to announce its participation at Interspeech 2009 in Brighton, UK, September 6-10, 2009. LDC researchers will present papers on the following topics (conveniently in the same session):

• XTrans: A Speech Annotation and Transcription Tool
  Thursday 10 September 2009, Session 2-O4, 13.30 (paper #3)
• The Broadcast Narrow Band Speech Corpus: A New Resource Type for Large Scale Language Recognition
  Thursday 10 September 2009, Session 2-O4, 13.30 (paper #6)

Two papers co-authored by LDC's director, Mark Liberman, will also be presented:

• Automatic Formant Extraction for Sociolinguistic Analysis of Large Corpora (co-authors Keelan Evanini, Stephen Isard)
  Wednesday 9 September 2009, Session 1-P1 10:00 (paper #3)
• Investigating /l/ Variation in English through Forced Alignment (co-author Jiahong Yuan)
  Wednesday 9 September 2009, Session 3-O2 16:00 (paper #5)

Visit our display in the exhibition hall at the Brighton Centre on Kings’ Road for a special giveaway or just to say hello.

Follow the link for more information on Interspeech 2009.

LDC at ALA 2009 - Update -- July 17, 2009

LDC is happy to report that our exhibit at ALA 2009 went off without a hitch! The American Library Association’s (ALA) annual conference was located in Chicago, IL and attracted over 20,000 exhibitors and attendees. We met our members face to face, connected with new associates in a dynamically-hosted conference setting and learned more about the needs of the library community. We hope to see you all next year!

Follow the link for additional information on the ALA Conference.

LDC at ALA 2009 and NAACL 2009 -- June 18, 2009

LDC at ALA 2009

We are pleased to announce that LDC wi ll be exhibiting at the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago from July 11-14, 2009. The main conference lasts from July 9-15 and covers a wide range of topics related to information science, traditional library science, digital cataloging and more. Please follow these links for additional information on the main conference:

LDC will be exhibiting at small press table #1143. We hope to see you there!!

LDC at NAACL 2009

The North American Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), NAACL, met at the University of Colorado at Boulder from May 31 - June 4. LDC is happy to report that we co-sponsored the entertainment at the festive gala dinner on June 2nd. NAACL featured a diverse collection of research papers and you may access the conference program here.

ACL’s annual meeting will be held in Singapore from August 2-7, 2009. Please click here to learn more about this conference and the ACL community.

LDC at MEDAR Conference -- May 22, 2009

LDC was pleased to attend the 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools recently held in Cairo, Egypt. The conference was organized by the Mediterranean Arabic Language and Speech Technology consortium (MEDAR), a new NEMLAR initiative. LDC researchers presented papers on their recent work in various Arabic projects including Treebank annotation, handwriting recognition and broadcast news collection and transcription (the latter in collaboration with the Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)). LDC’s Executive Director, Chris Cieri, discussed ways to share language resources across the region within the MEDAR framework.

Cieri and other conference attendees were interviewed by Emmy Adul Alim, a staff reporter for IslamOnline.net, a MEDAR sponsor. The resulting article “The Breakthrough of Arabic Language Technologies”, discusses the accomplishments and challenges of creating accessible Arabic human language technologies. Cieri highlighted LDC’s work with al-hakawati, the Arab Cultural Trust, to identify and digitize Arabic heritage texts. Al-hakawati makes the digitized materials immediately available on its website to end users, and LDC is developing a database of these texts that scholars can study for language change over time and across genres.

You can view LDC papers and poster presentations, including those from the MEDAR Conference, on our Papers page. Papers date from 1998 forward and most can be downloaded in pdf format. Presentations slides and posters are available for several papers as well.

LDC at NWAV37 -- November 18, 2008

The New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV) was hosted by Rice University in Houston from 6-9 November, 2008. LDC is proud to have been an exhibitor at NWAV and was grateful for the opportunity to both interact with many researchers in sociolinguistics and related fields and to learn more about their technical and data needs. LDC had a few giveaways at the conference with the most notable being the brand new LDC Spoken Language Sampler. Attendees were also provided with the opportunity to license a free copy of the CSLU: Kids' Speech v 1.1 corpus, LDC2007S18.

LDC at the ALA Midwinter Meeting -- January 22, 2008

The LDC was delighted to attend the American Library Association’s (ALA) Midwinter Conference here in Philadelphia from 11-14 January 2008 and to meet more members of our community. We demonstrated the search capabilities of the LDC Catalog and LDC Online and provided attendees with insight into our diverse publications and membership options. We would like to thank everyone who came by the LDC display at booth #239 and to invite all ALA attendees to contact us with any follow-up questions. Please read more about the Midwinter Conference on the ALA's homepage.

LDC at NWAV36 -- October 17, 2007

The LDC was pleased to meet old and new friends at the 36th annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV36) conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania on October 11-October 14. Two workshops were held at LDC’s facilities, and Chris Cieri and Stephanie Strassel, LDC’s Executive Director and Associate Director, Annotation Research and Program Coordination, respectively, were among the conference’s presenters. Thanks to all who stopped by the LDC booth at the publisher's display. We provided many NWAV36 attendees with free grant-covered copies of the Talkbank database, SLX Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews, and copies of our Speech Sampler. We also demonstrated how LDC Online can be used for sociolinguistic research..

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