May 2016 Newsletter

Monday, May 16, 2016

New Corpora

SDP 2014 & 2015: Broad Coverage Semantic Dependency Parsing

GALE Phase 4 Chinese Broadcast Conversation Speech

GALE Phase 4 Chinese Broadcast Conversation Transcripts

Announcements

LDC at LREC 2016
LDC will attend the 10th Language Resource Evaluation Conference (LREC2016), hosted by ELRA, the European Language Resource Association. The conference will be held in Portorož, Slovenia from May 23-28 and features a broad range of sessions on language resources and human language technologies research. Seven LDC staff members will be presenting current work on topics including trends in HLT research, building language resources for autism spectrum disorders, data management plans, rapid development of morphological analyzers for typologically diverse languages, selection criteria for low resource language programs, multi-language speech collection for NIST LRE, novel incentives for collecting data and annotation from people, and more.

Following the conference, LDC’s presented papers and posters will be available on LDC’s Papers Page.