LINGUIST List 10.728

Wed May 12 1999

FYI: ELRA News, Research Support, Deadline Extension

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Valerie Mapelli, ELRA News
  • Priscilla Rasmussen, MURI announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse
  • Iliyana Krapova, South Slavic and Balkan Lang/Extension

    Message 1: ELRA News

     Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:18:14 +0200
    From: Valerie Mapelli <mapellielda.fr>
    Subject: ELRA News


    ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________

    *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***

    We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: _______________________________________ ELRA-S0063 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000 _______________________________________

    The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000 consists of 4000 calls over the German fixed network, stored on 17 CD-ROMs in the final SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications.

    The following items were recorded: - 1 isolated digit - 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits - prompt sheet number = 5 - 9-11 digit telephone number (read) - 15-16 digit credit card number (read, 150 different credit card numbers were found) - 6 digit PIN code (read) - 1 natural number (read) - 1 money amount (read) - 2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted) - 3 dates (1 spontaneous, e.g. birthday; 1 prompted text form; 1 relative and general date form) - 1 time of day (spontaneous) - 1 time phrase (read) - 3 application words - 1 word spotting phrase - 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous name (e.g. forename), 1 spontaneous city name, 1 read city name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read company/agency name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read proper name, fore- and surname (from list of 150 SDB names). - 3 spellings (1 spontaneous, e.g. forename; 1 directory city name; 1 real/artificial word) - 4 isolated words - 9 phonetically rich sentences (read)

    The speech files are stored as sequence of 8-bit, 8kHz A-law speech files and are not compressed. Each prompt utterance is stored within a separate file and has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file.

    ===================================== 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 : mapellielda.fr

    or visit our Web site:

    http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html =====================================









    Message 2: MURI announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse

     Date: Tue, 11 May 99 20:13:10 EDT
    From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmussecs.rutgers.edu>
    Subject: MURI announcement on Tutorial Dialog/Discourse




    This is an call for proposals for the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program (DOD) The effort is on Tutorial Discourse and Susan Chipman is POC.

    --------http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/special/onrpgadh.htm

    Helen M. Gigley, Ph.D. Program Officer Office of Naval Research 800 N. Quincy Street (342) Arlington, VA 22217-5660

    phone: (703)-696-0407 fax: (703)-696-1212 email: gigleyitd.nrl.navy.mil

    Message 3: South Slavic and Balkan Lang/Extension

     Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:16:47 +0300
    From: Iliyana Krapova <iliyanaulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg>
    Subject: South Slavic and Balkan Lang/Extension




    Please, note that the dealine for submission of abstracts has been extended until 30.05.1999. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to seeing you in Plovdiv in September.

    For more information about the conference, visit our website at the address: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3

    Best regards, Iliyana Krapova (on behalf of the Organizing Committee of FASSBL3)