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elda.fr>*************************************************************************** ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News **************************************************************************** We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: ELRA S0106 Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 A description of this database is given below. The Dutch SpeechDat(II) MDB-250 comprises 250 Dutch speakers (125 males, 125 females) recorded over the Dutch mobile telephone network. The recordings were made at SPEX, the Netherlands, and the recording application was developed and run with Show 'N Tel. This database is partitioned into 5 CDs The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file. Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information. The following items were recorded: 8 application words (2 optional); 2 isolated digits; 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits; 3 connected digits: 1 telephone number (1-10 digits), 1 credit card number (1-16 digits), 1 digit PIN code (6 digits); 3 dates: 1 spontaneous date, 1 date, 1 relative date expression; 1 embedded application word; 3 spelled words: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city name, 1 word; 1 currency money amount; 1 natural number; 6 directory assistance names: 1 forename (spontaneous), 1 city of birth, 1 most frequent city, 1 city name, 1 company name, 1 forename surname; 2 yes/no questions: 1 predominantly "yes" question, 1 predominantly "no" question; 9 phonetically rich sentences; 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase; 4 phonetically rich words. The following age distribution has been obtained: 5 speakers are under 16, 90 are between 16 and 30, 89 between 31 and 45, 56 between 46 and 60, and 10 are over 60. The lexicon was created following the guidelines in SD1.3.1 v4.3. ===================================== 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
usc.es>_________________________________________________________ Syntactic Database of Current Spanish (SDB, release 3.5.1) __________________________________________________________ The research group on Spanish Syntax of the University of Santiago de Compostela ( http://www.sintx.usc.es ) makes available for the interested researchers the Syntactic Spanish Database (SDB), the result of the work carried out by the group throughout the last ten years. The data can be looked up in http://www.bds.usc.es/busquedas.html Developed with the financial support of the Direcci�n Xeral de Educaci�n y Ordenaci�n Universitaria of the Xunta de Galicia and of the Direcci�n General de Investigaci�n Cient�fica y T�cnica of the Ministerio de Educaci�n, SDB is the result of the manual analysis, having in mind constitutional and functional analysis principles, of the syntactic characteristics of the almost 160.000 clauses contained in the contemporary part of the Hispanic Texts Archive of the University of Santiago, constituted by approximately million and a half words of texts taken from all the Hispanic countries and including oral samples as well as novels, press and theater, all of them published between 1980 and 1990. In SDB the primary unit of description has been the clause and the analysis has been encoded so as to make obvious the organization of the syntactic functions around the verb form functioning as the predicate of the clause. For every clause in the database, the syntactic characteristics considered relevant in this first stage of development have been included. In first place, we have recorded general information about the clauses: clause type, clause function, voice, modality, verb inflection, syntactic functions found in the clause and order of them. Next, we have recorded detailed information about each of the syntactic functions found in the clause: type of structural unit, determination, animation, countability, preposition introducing the syntactic function, etc. Current search possibilities (as well as other not yet fully available but already on schedule) are conceived from an internal point of view, that is, they are devised so as to show the internal structure of clauses organized around verb forms in the corpus: syntactic schemes and subschemes of each verb documented in it, verbs documented with one scheme or subscheme, verbs requiring one preposition, etc. These are, however, a web page and a search interface still under development. For this reason, on the one hand, we apologize for the fact that certain search options on the menu are not yet ready, and on the other, we will be very grateful for any suggestion about search possibilities that you miss in the system and to which we have not given priority in this first phase of distribution of results. Currently, with the financial support of the Secretar�a Xeral de Investigaci�n e Desenvolvemento of the Xunta de Galicia, SDB has started a second phase of development in which we will analyse in depth the syntactic and semantic characteristics of the approximately 160.000 clauses constituting the corpus under study. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar�a Paula Santalla del R�o Dpto. de Lingua Espa�ola Facultade de Filolox�a, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Avda. Burgo das Naci�ns, s/n, Santiago de Compostela 15782 Tfno: (+34) 981 575340/563100, ext. 11908 Fax: (+34) 981 574646 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue