Conference Attendance by LDC

Publisher displays and conference participation by LDC.

2011

• LDC at NEALLT 2011 -- March 22, 2011
• LDC at ACL 2011 -- June 17, 2011
  

  2010

• LDC at Interspeech 2010 -- October 15, 2010
• LDC at LREC2010 -- June 16, 2010
  

  2009

• LDC at NWAV 38 -- November 20, 2009
• 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
  

  2008

• LDC at NWAV37 -- November 18, 2008
• LDC at the ALA Midwinter Meeting -- January 22, 2008
  

  2007

• LDC at NWAV36 -- October 17, 2007

LDC at NEALLT 2011 -- March 22, 2011

LDC will be exhibiting at the upcoming NEALLT (North East Association for Language Learning Technology) conference, which will be held at the University of Pennsylvania from 1-3 April 2011. NEALLT is the regional chapter of the International Association for Language Learning Technology and works to improve language instruction through the use of technology.

How resources developed and distributed by LDC can aid language education will be discussed by LDC’s Dr Mohamed Maamouri in the presentation “Incorporating Resources and New Technologies in Language Education” on Saturday, April 2 (Session 9: 4.00-4.20 pm, Cohen G17). That presentation will highlight the LDC Arabic Reading Enhancement Tool, designed to support the development of reading skills for learning Arabic as a first and second language.

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LDC at ACL 2011 -- June 17, 2011

ACL has returned to North America and LDC is taking this opportunity to interact with top HLT researchers in beautiful Portland, OR. LDC’s exhibition table will feature information on new developments at the consortium and will also be the go-to point for exciting new, green giveaways.

LDC’s Seth Kulick will be presenting research on ‘Using Derivation Trees for Treebank Error Detection’ (S-66) during Monday’s evening poster session (20 June, 6.00 – 8.30 pm). The abstract for this paper, coauthored by LDCers Ann Bies and Justin Mott, is as follows:

This work introduces a new approach to checking treebank consistency. Derivation trees based on a variant of Tree Adjoining Grammar are used to compare the annotation of word sequences based on their structural similarity. This overcomes the problems of earlier approaches based on using strings of words rather than tree structure to identify the appropriate contexts for comparison. We report on the result of applying this approach to the Penn Arabic Treebank and how this approach leads to high precision of error detection.

LDC at Interspeech 2010 -- October 15, 2010

We would like to thank all of the Interspeech 2010 attendees who stopped by the LDC display in Makuhari Japan. We had the chance to interact with a great mix of speech researchers from around the globe, and we hope that we were able to answer your questions about the Consortium. The exhibition hall also provided LDC with an opportunity to showcase the new additions to our Data Sheet collection, which continue to be printed on FSC-certified 30% recycled paper.

The most frequently-asked questions from conference attendees concerned which Asian languages and corresponding data types are represented in the LDC Catalog. Over the past 18 years, we have produced nearly 200 corpora in over 20 Asian languages, primarily in Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean. These data sets are comprised of telephone speech, broadcast news and broadcast conversation, video keyframes, newswire, web collections and transcribed speech. To date, half of LDC’s 2010 publications are partly or primarily Asian language datasets, and we expect to release additional Chinese, Korean and Arabic corpora in the coming year. LDC anticipated these queries and in the months leading up to Interspeech, we prepared an Asian Spoken Language Sampler, LDC2010S07, which showcases some of these releases. The sampler is freely available for download here

LDC attended the 7th biennial Language Resource Evaluation Conference (LREC2010), hosted by ELRA, the European Language Resource Association. Fourteen LDC staff members presented current research on a wide range of topics, including word alignment, treebanks, machine translation and speech studies as well as updates on language resource development, initiatives for cataloging and distributing resources and legal issues associated with sharing language resources. The conference was located in Valletta, Malta and featured interesting and invigorating research sessions that brought together over 1200 attendees from around the globe.
 

LDC at LREC2010 -- June 16, 2010

LDC at NWAV 38 -- November 20, 2009

LDC exhibited at NWAV for the third straight year. We were delighted to interact with so many talented sociolinguistic researchers and to introduce numerous attendees to LDC and our data catalog. LDC distributed free copies of both the SLX Corpus of Classic Sociolinguistic Interviews, as per the terms of the Timebank grant, and the 2008 LDC Spoken Language Sampler, which is available for download here. We also distributed many of our newly minted data sheets, including one featuring the speech annotation tool XTrans. This tool is also freely available from our website in Linux and Windows formats.   

LDC’s Executive Director Chris Cieri and Senior Associate Director Stephanie Strassel presented papers on the following topics:

·         Models of Phonological Variation for Multi-dialectal Communities: the case of L’Aquila

·         Closer Still to a Robust, All Digital, Empirical, Reproducible Sociolinguistic Methodology

Thanks again to everyone who stopped by our display and we look forward to seeing you again next year!

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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