| Item Name: | 1999 HUB4 Broadcast News Evaluation English Test Material |
| Authors: | . |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2000S88 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-176-0 |
| Data Type: | speech |
| Data Source(s): | broadcast news |
| Application(s): | speech recognition |
| Language(s): | English |
| Language ID(s): | eng |
| Distribution: | 1 CD |
| Member fee: | $0 for 2000 members |
| Non-member Fee: | N/A (Members Only) |
| Reduced-License Fee: | N/A |
| Extra-Copy Fee: | US$150.00 |
| Online documentation: | yes |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members |
| Citation: | . 2000 1999 HUB4 Broadcast News Evaluation English Test Material Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia |
IntroductionThis publication contains the English evaluation test material used in
the 1999 NIST Broadcast News Transcription Evaluation administered by the
NIST,
Spoken Natural Language Processing Group and produced by the Linguistic
Data Consortium DataThe test material is contained in two SPHERE-formatted waveform files. The file bn99en_1.sph (set1) contains 1.5 hours of Broadcast News excerpts from last year's set2 epoch. The file bn99en_2.sph (set2) contains 1.5 hours of Broadcast News excerpts from the summer of 1998. Each file should be separately recognized per the Broadcast News English Evaluation Specification. Additional test material for each set is also included. Test materials include evaluation map files (bn99en_1.uem), automatically generated segmentation files (bn99en_1.seg), transcripts from the evaluation (bn99en_1.utf) and the utf.dtd used to validate the transcripts, reference STM files (bn99en_1.stm), and transcript orthography mapping files (en981118.glm). For more complete information, see the 1998 HUB4 Website. UpdatesThere are no updates at this time.CopyrightPortions Copyright 1998 PRI-Public Radio International Note that the waveform and transcript data on this disc are licensed through the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and are subject to usage restrictions. Contact the LDC for license agreement information. PricingThe Reduced Licensing Fee for this corpus is US$150. | |
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