January 2017 Newsletter

Thursday, January 19, 2017

New Corpora

Arabic Speech Recognition Pronunciation Dictionary

IARPA Babel Vietnamese Language Pack IARPA-babel107b-v0.7

MWE-Aware English Dependency Corpus

GALE Phase 3 and 4 Chinese Web Parallel Text

Announcements

LDC Membership Discounts for MY2017 Still Available
Join LDC now while membership savings are still available. 2016 members receive a 10% discount when renewing before March 1, 2017, or a 5% discount when renewing any time in 2017. Non-consecutive members and new members receive a 5% discount when renewing before March 1, 2017.  Membership remains the most economical way to access LDC releases.  This year’s planned publications include 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation data set, Multilanguage Conversational Telephone Speech, Noisy TIMIT, IARPA Babel Language Packs, RATS Keyword Spotting, BOLT parallel and word-aligned data in all languages and more. Browse the Members pages for details on membership options and benefits.