Introduction

The Translanguage English Database (TED) Transcripts project, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002T03 and ISBN 1-58563-202-3 is a joint publication between the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the LDC. Joint LDC/ELRA distribution of this work was sponsored in part by National Science Foundation Grant No. IIS-9982201.

Data

The 39 audio files transcribed are a subset of the 188 speeches available in the corresponding audio publication, which is available as LDC2002S04, an LDC release of the ELRA TED corpus of recordings made at Eurospeech '93 in Berlin. The TED audio recordings have non-native English speakers presenting academic papers for approximately 15 minutes each. Included on the TED audio publication are the papers, poster sessions, and original transcripts of oral recordings for a subset of the presentations.

The 39 transcripts in this publication are in Universal Transcription Format (UTF) and were prepared by the LDC. All utf files in the transcript publication were validated against an the utf.dtd. Tables containing speaker demographic information and cross-reference of file names from the TED audio corpus are included. Please go here for a sample of one of the transcripts.

Please note that poster presentations, notes and questionnaires are not available for every author in the corresponding TED audio publication LDC2002S04.

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