LDC Catalog

Spanish Newswire Text, Volume 2


Item Name:	Spanish Newswire Text, Volume 2
Authors:	David Graff and Gustavo Gallegos
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC99T41
ISBN:	1-58563-162-0
Data Type:	text
Data Source(s):	newswire
Project(s):	GALE, TIDES
Application(s):	information retrieval, language modeling
Language(s):	Spanish
Language ID(s):	spa
Distribution:	1 CD
Member fee:	$0 for 1999 members
Non-member Fee:	US$1500.00
Reduced-License Fee:	US$750.00
Extra-Copy Fee:	US$150.00
Non-member License:	yes
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	David Graff and Gustavo Gallegos 1999 Spanish Newswire Text, Volume 2 Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction This release of Spanish newswire contains data from the following sources: Agence France Presse (January 13, 1996--December 13,1998) Associated Press Worldstream (December 1, 1995--August 31, 1998) El Norte (January 1, 1997--December 31, 1998) Data The consistent format chosen for release consists of SGML tagging and the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) 8-bit character set. Our general strategy for SGML tagging is as follows: All document units (articles) are bounded by the tags DOC and /DOC, and within these units, the text content of each article is bounded by TEXT and /TEXT. Following each DOC tag is a DOCID tag that provides a unique identifying string for that article. Other tags within the DOC unit (but external to TEXT) provide additional information that was receieved with the article (e.g. headline, dateline, byline, keywords, etc), but the inventory and nature of additional information varies from one source to the next (and in some cases, from one article to the next), and this variability is reflected in the SGML tags that are used to preserve the information. Within the TEXT units, tagging is kept to a minimum, typically consisting only of paragraph tags. Updates There are no updates at this time. Copyright

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