LINGUIST List 13.595

Mon Mar 4 2002

FYI: New Corpus Release, 1 Year M.Phil in Ling

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  • LDC Office, New ELDA/LDC Corpus Release
  • K.M. Jaszczolt, M.Phil. in Cambridge

    Message 1: New ELDA/LDC Corpus Release

     Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:18:30 -0500
    From: LDC Office <ldcldc.upenn.edu>
    Subject: New ELDA/LDC Corpus Release


    Cooperation Between ELDA and LDC - Distribution of Language Resources

    Networking Data Centers, "Net-DC", (MLIS-5017), aims to improve the infrastructure for language resources, by designing and implementing new modes of cooperation between the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and the European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA). In the framework of this cooperation, LDC and ELDA are happy to announce the following joint distribution of language resources.

    Translanguage English Database (TED) ELRA reference: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html LDC reference: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html

    The Translanguage English Database (TED) is a corpus of recordings made of oral presentations at Eurospeech'93 in Berlin. The corpus name derives from the high percentage of oral presentations given in English by non-native speakers of English. Two hundred twenty-four (224) oral presentations at the conference were successfully recorded, providing a total of about 75 hours of speech material. These recordings provide a large number of presenters, speaking multiple variants of English, over a relatively large amount of time (15 minutes for each presentation + 5 minutes of discussion), on a specific topic. This release of TED (6 CDROMs) includes 188 speeches, without the ensuing discussion periods. This database was produced with the support of ELSNET. Associated text materials consist of ASCII versions of over 400 proceedings papers and oral preparations that were supplied by the authors, as well as, 250 speaker questionnaires.

    Translanguage English Database (TED) Transcripts ELRA reference: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0120.html LDC reference: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002T03.html

    The Translanguage English Database (TED) Transcripts corpus contains transcriptions of thirty-nine of the 188 speeches of the TED Corpus (ELRA ref.: http://www.elda.fr/cata/speech/S0031.html ; LDC ref.: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2002S04.html) made at Eurospeech'93 in Berlin. The thirty-nine transcripts in this publication are in Universal Transcription Format (UTF) and were prepared by the LDC. All utf files in the transcript publication were validated against an included utf.dtd. Tables containing speaker demographic information and a cross-reference of file names from the TED audio corpus are included.

    For further information, please contact ELRA/ELDA or LDC at:

    ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel: +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 01 43 13 33 30 Email: mapellielda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr

    LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium 3615 Market Street, Suite 200 PA 19104-2608 Philadelphia, USA Tel: (215) 898-0464 Fax: (215) 573-2175 Email: ldcldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

    Message 2: M.Phil. in Cambridge

     Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:50:16 -0000
    From: K.M. Jaszczolt <kmj21cam.ac.uk>
    Subject: M.Phil. in Cambridge


    Applications are invited for a one-year M.Phil. course in Linguistics offered by the Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK. The taught component of the course provides training in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as research methods, with options also available in historical linguistics, pragmatics and Romance linguistics. Students also conduct two pieces of research on topics of their choice, selected from a wide range of areas of expertise offered by the linguists of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. The course can be taken as a one-year programme ('M.Phil. only')or can serve as a preparation for a PhD ('M.Phil. in the first instance'). For further details and application procedure see http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/

    Dr Kasia Jaszczolt Director of the M.Phil. Department of Linguistics Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages University of Cambridge CB3 9DA United Kingdom

    and

    Newnham College Cambridge CB3 9DF

    tel +44 1223 335744 fax +44 1223 335062 email kmj21cam.ac.uk http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~kmj21