LDC Catalog

Hong Kong News Parallel Text


Item Name:	Hong Kong News Parallel Text
Authors:	Xiaoyi Ma
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC2000T46
ISBN:	1-58563-169-8
Release Date:	Jan 15, 2000
Data Type:	text
Data Source(s):	newswire
Project(s):	GALE, TIDES
Application(s):	machine translation
Language(s):	English, Mandarin Chinese
Language ID(s):	ENG
Distribution:	Web Download
Member fee:	$0 for 2000 members
Non-member Fee:	N/A (Members Only)
Reduced-License Fee:	N/A
Extra-Copy Fee:	N/A
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	Xiaoyi Ma 2000 Hong Kong News Parallel Text Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction This FTP publication was created when the LDC collected parallel Chinese - English news articles from the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China. LDC wishes to thank the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for granting the LDC permission to distribute this data to the research community. Data This corpora contains 18,147 aligned article pairs released by HKSAR from July 1, 1997 to April 30, 2000. Automatic article alignment was done at the LDC. The data directory contains 36,294 articles. Each article is a separate file, thus there are 18,147 article pairs. The files are named using the convention; yyyymmdd_nnn.[ce] where yyyy = year mm = month dd = date nnn = article date sequence number c = Cantonese, and e = English. The example.c and example.e files contains a corresponding sample news article from the corpus. The articles were collected by an automated system from the internet. Incoming data was spooled directly to a "raw collection" file and the raw files were then processed to produce the following format for release by the LDC. Table.txt maps the Chinese files (.c) to the corresponding English files (.e). The Chinese files are encoded in BIG5 with user-defined characters by HKSAR. Click here for details. Copying and Distribution Permission has been granted to the Linguistic Data Consortium to make and distribute copies of the laws, press releases and news of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provided that this copyright notice and the following permission notice are distributed with all copies. Permission has been given to the Linguistic Data Consortium reproduce the laws, press releases, and/or news articles from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government website for research, education and technology development. Updates There are no updates at this time. Copyright Portions © 1997-2000 The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, © 2000 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Pricing The Reduced Licensing Fee for this corpus is US$100.

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