Introduction
This file contains documentation on the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 2
Careful Transcription Audio Corpus, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog
number LDC2000S92 and ISBN 1-58563-167-1. This corpus contains the recordings
of broadcast news audio. The transcriptions to these recordings are available
in the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) 2 Careful Transcription Text Corpus,
Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2000T44 and ISBN 1-58563-166-3.
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) refers to automatic techniques for
finding topically related material in streams of data such as newswire and
broadcast news. The TDT2 corpus was created to support three TDT2 tasks: find
topically homogeneous sections (segmentation), detect the occurrence of new
events (detection), and track the reoccurrence of old or new events
(tracking). For further information on TDT2 please visit our TDT2
Information Pages.
Data
This publication contains 1998 broadcasts from the following sources:
ABC News
Cable News Network (CNN)
Public Radio International (PRI)
Voice of America (VOA)
Samples
For an example of the data in this corpus, please review this audio sample.
Updates
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Content Copyright
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