June 2014 Newsletter

New Corpora

Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) Annotation Release 1.0

ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English

GALE Phase 2 Chinese Broadcast News Parallel Text Part 2

MADCAT Chinese Pilot Training Set

Announcements

LDC at ACL 2014: June 23-25, Baltimore, MD
ACL has returned to North America and LDC is taking this opportunity to interact with top HLT researchers gathering in Baltimore, MD.  LDC’s exhibition table will feature information on new developments at the consortium and some interesting giveaways.

LDC’s Seth Kulick will  present research results on “Parser Evaluation Using Derivation Trees: A Complement to evalb” (SP88) during Tuesday’s Long Paper, Short Paper, Poster & Dinner Session II (June 24, 16:50-19:20). This paper was coauthored by LDCers Ann Bies, Justin Mott, and Mark Liberman and Penn linguists Anthony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini.

LDC staff will also participate in the post-conference 2nd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference and Representation on Friday, June 27, with presentations at the poster session:

• Inter-annotator Agreement for ERE annotation: Seth Kulick, Ann Bies and Justin Mott
• A Comparison of the Events and Relations Across ACE, ERE, TAC-KBP, and FrameNet Annotation Standards: Stephanie Strassel, Zhiyi Song, Joe Ellis (all LDC) and Jacqueline Aquilar, Charley Beller, Paul McNamee, Benjamin van Durme

Early Renewing Members Save on Fees
LDC's early renewal discount program has resulted in significant savings for Membership Year (MY) 2014 members!  The 100 organizations that renewed their membership or joined early for MY2014 saved over US$60,000 on membership fees.  MY2013 members can still take advantage of savings and are eligible for a 5% discount when renewing for MY2014. This discount will apply throughout 2014.

Organizations joining LDC can take advantage of membership benefits including free membership year data as well as discounts on older LDC corpora.  For-profit members can use most LDC data for commercial applications.

Commercial Use and LDC Data
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