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elda.fr>___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: ELRA-W0024 PAROLE Portuguese Corpus ELRA-L0035 PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon A description of each database is given below. _______________________________________ ELRA-W0024 PAROLE Portuguese Corpus _______________________________________ The parole Portuguese corpus contains approximately 3 million running words of European Portuguese distributed by Medium, as follows: - Newspaper: about 65%, covering the period 1996-1997 of 3 titles; - Book: about 20%, concerning 12 titles from 3 editing houses; - Periodical: about 5%, concerning 7 weekly issues of 1 title, 1996; - Miscellaneous: about 10%, concerning several files distributed by 8 titles. The corpus was classified and encoded according to the common core parole encoding standard. The file format of this corpus is SGML. A subcorpus of the PAROLE Portuguese Corpus, which reproduces approximately the whole Corpus distribution by Medium (Newspaper: about 65%, Book: ab. 20%, Periodical: ab. 5%, Miscellaneous: ab. 10%) is also available. It has about 250,000 words morpho-syntactically tagged accordingly to the parole common tagset and morpho-syntactic annotation standards. Disambiguation was manually checked. _______________________________________ ELRA-L0035 PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon _______________________________________ The PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon is constituted by 20 thousand entries morpho-syntactically and syntactically encoded, accordingly to the parole common encoding standards. The data is in SGML format. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail mapelliMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
elda.fr>___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** AURORA Project Database *** ELRA is releasing two databases made within the ETSI STQ-AURORA DSR working group. _______________________________________ AURORA Project Database 2.0 _______________________________________ The Aurora project is releasing a revised version of the Noisy TI digits database to follow on the work of ETSI. This CD set is a replacement for the previous set (version 1.0 consisted of 2 CDs while version 2.0 now consists of 4 CDs) . This database is intended for the evaluation of algorithms for front-end feature extraction algorithms in background noise but may also be used more widely by speech researchers to evaluate and compare the performance of noise robust speech recognition algorithms. Compared to version 1.0 the changes are as follows: 1) The files are restored to the energy level of the original speech in the TI digits database. 2) One of the noise types added to the speech has been changed (the babble one) 3) There is an additional test sets where the noises are mismatched to those used in the training set 4) There is a convolutional distortion test. 5) There is a clean training set The CD ROM will be used for the next round of ETSI Aurora standards evaluation. _______________________________________ AURORA Project Database 3.0 - Subset of SpeechDat-Car Finnish database _______________________________________ This database is a subset of the SpeechDat-Car database in Finnish language which has been collected as part of the European Union funded SpeechDat-Car project. It contains isolated and connected Finnish digits spoken in the following driving conditions inside a car: 1. 0 km/hr with the car engine on 2. 40-60 km/hr with the car windows closed 3. 40-60 km/hr with the car windows open 4. 100-120km/hr with no music in the background 5. 100-120km/hr with music in the background The database also contains the software needed to run simulations using the Entropic's HTK, which has been adopted as the "standard" HMM recogniser for the Aurora standard evaluation. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail mapelliMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uwa.edu.au>The Proceedings of the 1999 Australian Linguistic Society Conference are published at http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LingWWW/als99/proceedings. All papers are available in pdf format. Contents: The Lexicon and Quantity Implicatures Keith Allan A Preliminary Analysis of Lebanese Arabic Intonation Dana Chahal An Acoustic-Phonetic Descriptive Analysis of Pitch Realisations in Kagoshima Japanese Shunichi Ishihara Constraints on the Pre-auxiliary Position in Warlpiri and the Nature of the Auxiliary Mary Laughren Thematic Role Hierarchies and Role Engagement Tom Mylne Suffix Coherence and Stress in Australian Languages Rob Pensalfini "Just do it ...!" Discourse strategies for 'getting the message across' in a factory production team Maria Stubbe False witness: when historical texts fail Nicholas Thieberger Set Marking Tags - 'and stuff' Joanne Winter and Catrin Norrby _______________________________ Department of Linguistics, University of Western Australia WA 6907 Ph. (08) 9380 2870 (direct) (Int'l 61 8 9380 2870) Fax (08) 9380 1154 (Int'l 61 8 9380 2870)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue