October 2014 Newsletter

New Corpora

Chinese Discourse Treebank 0.5

GALE Arabic-English Word Alignment -- Broadcast Training Part 2

United Nations Proceedings Speech

Announcements

LDC at NWAV 43
LDC will be exhibiting at the 43rd New Ways of Analyzing Variation Conference (NWAV 43)  held this year October 23-26 in Chicago, Illinois. Please stop by our table in the Old Town Room on the third floor of the Hilton to learn more about the most recent developments at the Consortium and to check out our latest giveaways. As always, LDC will post conference updates via our Facebook page. We hope to see you in Chicago!

LDC Data Scholarship Update
LDC received many solid applications for the Fall 2014 LDC Data Scholarship Program.  We are in the process of reviewing submissions and will announce recipients soon. The LDC Data Scholarship program provides university students with access to LDC data at no-cost. Students were asked to complete an application which consisted of a proposal describing their intended use of the data, as well as a letter of support from their thesis adviser.

Data use proposals in this cycle included a range of research interests from opinion mining tagging to deceptive speech classification.