LINGUIST List 14.1455

Tue May 20 2003

FYI: Kluge Fellowship, Korean Lang Publication

Editor for this issue: Renee Galvis <reneelinguistlist.org>

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1. Aikin, Jane, John W. Kluge Fellowship Competition announcement
2. Linguistic Data Consortium, New LDC Publications

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
Kluge Fellowship Competition
Deadline for receipt of applications: August 15, 2003

The Library of Congress invites qualified scholars to conduct research
in the John W. Kluge Center using the Library's collections and
resources for tenure periods of six months to one year. The Center
especially encourages humanistic and social science
research. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, or multilingual research
is particularly welcome.
 
Eligibility: Scholars who have received a terminal advanced degree
within the past seven years in the humanities, social sciences or in a
professional field such as architecture or law are
eligible. Exceptions may be made for individuals without continuous
academic careers. Applicants may be U.S. citizens or foreign
nationals.
 
Tenure and Stipend. Fellowships may be held for periods from six to
twelve months at a stipend of $3500 per month. Constraints of space
and the desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows
may lead to an offer of fewer months than originally requested.
Fellows may begin tenure at any time during the fourteen-month window
between June 1 of the year in which the Fellowship is awarded and
August 1 of the year following, providing space is available.
Stipends will be paid monthly, usually by electronic transfer to a
bank account.
 
Applications: All applications must be written in English. The
application must include a research proposal (no longer than three
single-spaced pages) and a single paragraph summary, a two-page
curriculum vita which should indicate major prior scholarship, an
indication of the collections at the Library of Congress that will be
used for research and two letters of reference (in English) from
individuals who know the quality of the applicant's scholarship. The
application form and reference form may be printed from the website:
http://www.loc.gov/kluge <http://www.loc.gov/kluge>;
 
Deadline: Applications (including nine collated copies) must be
received at the Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, by
August 15, 2003.
 
Language Certification: For applicants whose native language is not
English, there must be evidence that the applicant is fluent in
English so as easily to conduct research, discuss work with
colleagues, and make a public presentation, although the ultimate
product of the research may be written in the applicant's native
language. For English speakers who seek to do research in the
Library's foreign language collections, there must be evidence that
they have a command of the relevant language or languages at the level
requisite for serious research.
 
Awards: Up to twelve Kluge Fellowships will be awarded annually by the
Library of congress. Awards will be announced no later than March 15
of the year following that in which the application is due.
 
For further information: Contact The John W. Kluge Center, Office of
Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, LJ120, 101 Independence
Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-4860 phone: 202-707-3302; fax:
202-707-3595 email: scholarlyloc.gov web: http://www.loc.gov.kluge
<http://www.loc.gov.kluge>;

 LDC2003S03
	 * Korean Telephone Conversations Speech *

 LDC2003T08
	* Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts *

 LDC2003L02
	 * Korean Telephone Conversations Lexicon *

 LDC2003P01
 * Korean Telephone Conversations Complete Set *



The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the
availability of several new publications.


1. The Korean Telephone Conversations Speech corpus was originally
recorded as part of the Callfriend project. The conversations were
collected by the Linguistic Data Consortium primarily in support of
the Language Identification (LID) project, sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Defense.

The Korean Telephone Conversations Speech corpus consists of 100
telephone conversations between native speakers of Korean. Of these,
49 were published by the LDC in 1996 as LDC96S54 CALLFRIEND Korean; 51
conversations are previously unreleased material. The recorded
conversations last up to 30 minutes.

There are 100 speech files, totaling approximately 44 hours of audio.
All speech files are in sphere format (shorten-compressed), recorded
in 2-channel ulaw with a sampling rate of 8 KHz. This publication
consists of three CD-ROM's.

For further information, including a link to online documentation,
please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003S03

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2003
Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
Nonmembers may license this publication for $1000.


2. The Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts consists of 100
transcribed telephone conversations between native speakers of Korean.
The transcripts correspond to the 100 conversations in Korean
Telephone Conversations Speech. The recorded conversations last up to
30 minutes, of which the transcribed speech covers between 15 to 18
minutes.

The Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts contains 100 text
files, totaling approximately 190K words and 25K unique words. All
files are in Korean orthography, using the KSC-5601 character set.
This publication is distributed by ftp.

For further information, including a link to a sample transcript,
please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003T08

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2003
Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
Nonmembers may license this publication for $1000.


3. The Korean Telephone Conversations Lexicon consists of 25,251
words, and contains separate fields with phonological, morphological,
and frequency information for each word. The lexicon covers the
tokens occurring in the 100 telephone conversations transcribed and
published as Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts. The token
coverage is 100%.

The lexicon contains five tab-separated information fields:

 1. orthographic form in Hangul (headword), encoded in the
 KSC-5601
 character set.
 2. orthographic form in Yale romanization
 3. pronunciation
 4. frequency of the word in Korean Telephone Conversations
 Transcripts
 5. morphological analysis of the word

This publication is distributed by ftp.

For more information, including a link to a sample page from the
lexicon, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2003L02

Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2003
Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge.
Nonmembers may license this publication for $1500.


4. The Korean Telephone Conversations Complete Set consists of the
following:

LDC2003S03 Korean Telephone Conversations Speech
LDC2003T08 Korean Telephone Conversations Transcripts
LDC2003L02 Korean Telephone Conversations Lexicon

All three of the above publications may be licensed together as a
package for the nonmember fee of $3000, a savings of $500 off the sum
of the individual corpora licensing fees.

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If you need additional information before placing your order, or would
like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email to
<ldcldc.upenn.edu> or call (215) 573-1275.


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