[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (49)
Subject: "IEEE/Digital Library News" Needs News of Digital
Library Projects
[2] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (104)
Subject: ELRA News - New resources I
[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (111)
Subject: ELRA News - New resources II
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:57:47 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: "IEEE/Digital Library News" Needs News of Digital Library
Projects
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 10, 1998
NEWS, EXAMPLES, EVENTS NEEDED FOR IEEE "DIGITAL LIBRARY NEWS"
<http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln/announce.html>
Members of the cultural community are encouraged to send news of any
digital projects to the editor of the Digital Library News publication of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
To subscribe to DLN, send an e-mail message to: <ieeedln@cimic.rutgers.edu>
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David Green
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>Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:19:03 -0400
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Digital Library News
The next issue of IEEE/Digital Library News will be distributed in
mid-July. We are seeking short descriptions of new digital library
research, events, technologies, or projects to include in the newsletter.
We will also include announcements of new publications about digital
library technology or research. The purpose of IEEE/Digital Library News
is to provide a timely, brief overview of research and events related to
digital libraries. Descriptions should be no more than one to two
paragraphs long, and should include a URL for readers to find more complete
information.
We will also include any announcement of upcoming digital library-related
events in our calendar. Please send us the name of the event, the dates,
location, a one to two sentence description, and a name, URL, email and
regular address, and phone number to contact for further information.
Send announcements and brief articles to the editor, Sue Feldman,
sef2@cornell.edu by June 20th.
Sue Feldman
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:41:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: ELRA News - New resources I
>> From: info-elra@calva.net (Valerie Mapelli)
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
ELRA News
The ELRA catalogue has been updated with the following resources.
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* ELRA-S0050 Russian speech database (STC) *
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The STC Russian speech database was recorded in 1996-1998. The main
purpose of the database is to investigate individual speaker variability
and to
validate speaker recognition algorithms. The database was recorded through a
16-bit Vibra-16 Creative Labs sound card with an 11,025 Hz sampling rate.
The database contains Russian read speech of 89 different speakers (54 male,
35 female), including 70 speakers with 15 sessions or more, 10 speakers with
10 sessions or more and 9 speakers with less than 10 sessions. The speakers
were recorded in Saint-Petersburg and are within the age of 18-62. All are
native speakers.
The corpus consists of 5 sentences. Each speaker reads carefully but fluently
each sentence 15 times on different dates over the period of 1-3 months. The
corpus contains a total of 6,889 utterances and of 2 volumes, total size 700
MB uncompressed data. The signal of each utterance is stored as a separate
file (approx. 126 KB). Total size of data for one speaker approximates 9,500
KB. Average utterance duration is about 5 sec.
A file gives information about the speakers (speaker's age and gender). The
orthography and phonetic transcription of the corpus is given in separate
files
which contain the prompted sentences and their transcription in IPA. The
signal files are raw files without any header, 16 bit per sample, linear,
11,025 Hz sample frequency.
The recording conditions were as follows:
Microphone: dynamic omnidirectional high-quality microphone, distance
to mouth 5-10 cm
Environment: office room
Sampling rate: 11,025 Hz
Resolution: 16 Bit
Sound board: Creative Labs Vibra-16
Means of delivery: CD-ROM
Price for ELRA members:
for research use: 400 ECU
for commercial use: 2000 ECU
Price for non members:
for research use: 800 ECU
for commercial use: 4000 ECU
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* ELRA-S0051 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 *
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The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 consists of 988 calls over the German
fixed network, stored on 4 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 (read or prompted)
1 sequence of 10 isolated digit
4 connected digits
4-6 digit number to identify the prompt sheet
ca. 10 digit telephone number (read)
14-16 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)
3 spelled words (1 spontaneous name spelling, 2 read)
1 time of day (spontaneous)
1 time phrase (read)
1 date (spontaneous)
1 date (read)
1 relative date (read)
2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted)
3/6 common application words (read)
All application words are recorded more than 80 times. These are:
1 application word phrase
9 phonetically rich sentences (read)
4 phonetically rich words (read)
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).
Price for research use (in ECU) Members Non members
German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 15,000 25,000
German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000=20
+ German SpeechDat(M) DB1 or DB2 20,000 30,000
Price for commercial use (in ECU) Members Non members
German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 18,000 25,000
German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000=20
+ German SpeechDat(M) DB1 or DB2 25,000 35,000
SPECIAL OFFERS:
1) Price of German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 for ELRA members who=20
already purchased German SpeechDat(M) DB1 (ELRA-S0018) :
Before 30.06.1998: 10,000 ECU
Between 30.06.1998 and 31.12.1998: 11,000 ECU
2) If the purchase of SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 occurs in the same calendar
year of DB1 or DB2, the package price will be:
for research use: 20,000 ECU for ELRA members and 30,000 ECU for non=
members;
for commercial use: 25,000 ECU for ELRA members and 35,000 ECU for
non members.
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For more information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat Savarin
75013 PARIS
Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30
E-mail: info-elra@calva.net
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:45:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: ELRA News - New resources II
>> From: info-elra@calva.net (Valerie Mapelli)
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION
ELRA News
*** ELRA NEW RESOURCES - Part 2 ***
The ELRA catalogue has been updated with the following resources.
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* ELRA-L0030 Bulgarian Morphological Dictionary *
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This dictionary contains 67500 entries divided into 242 inflectional types
(including proper nouns), morphosyntactic information for each entry, and a
morphological engine (MS DOS and WINDOWS 95/NT) for morphological
analysis and generation. The data may be used for morphological analysis and
synthesis.
Structure of entries: Local linguistic variant
File format: ASCII; lowercase letters
Standard in use: ISO
Character set: 8-bit ASCII ASCII codes alphabetically: 160-191
Medium: Floppy disk
Price for Research use:
ELRA members: 45 ECU
Non members: 100 ECU
Price for Commercial use:
ELRA members: 6,000 ECU
Non members: 12,000 ECU
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* ELRA-M0014 Bilingual dictionaries (Translation Experts Ltd.) *
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Bilingual dictionaries for demonstration and commercial use containing local
linguistic variant, local spelling variant, words frequency, usage (familiar,
old, slang, etc.) and semantic features. The level of information in each
entry
varies depending on the word/phrase and on the dictionary. However, all of
the above are present in varying degrees in the dictionaries. These
dictionaries may be of interest in particular for spell-checking, thesaurus,
hyphenation and translation of natural languages. A Level 2 translation
engine, also available via ELRA, provides exact translations, output in
LOCAL-UCS format, for input words and phrases, input in LOCAL-UCS
format, based on the vocabulary stored in a compressed translation file.
Each pair of languages may be purchased as different sets or subsets,
corresponding to the indicated number of entries. All pairs consist of English
to and from another language. The following groups of languages are
available:
GROUP 1 (English <=3D> Language A):
Language A
Spanish (25,000, 60,000, 100,000 and 200,000 entries),
French (40,000, 80,000, 100,000 and 200,000 entries),
German (40,000, 80,000 and 126,000 entries),
Italian (20,000 and 40,000 entries),
Brazilian Portuguese (40,000, 80,000 and 400,000 entries),
Portuguese (40,000, 80,000, 110,000 and 234,000 entries),
Dutch (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries).
GROUP 2 (English <=3D> Language B):
Language B
Danish (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries),
Swedish (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries),
Finnish (30,000 entries),
Icelandic (40,000, 80,000 and 100,000 entries).
GROUP 3 (English <=3D> Language C):
Language C
Russian (4,0000, 72,000 and 120,000 entries),
Russian Business (60,000 entries),
Russian Aerospace (60,000 entries),
Russian Automotive (40,000 entries),
Russian Minerals & Mining (60,000 entries),
Polish (30,000, 80,000, 124,000 and 150,000 entries),
Hungarian (30,000, 80,000 and 124,000 entries),
Czech (40,000 entries),
Romanian Starter (10,000 entries).
GROUP 4 (English <=3D> Language D):
Language D
Croatian (30,000 entries),
Bosnian (30,000 entries),
Serbian (Latin or Cyrillic) (30,000 entries).
GROUP 5 (English <=3D> Language E):
Language E
Japanese (40,000 entries).
GROUP 6 (English <=3D> Language F):
Language F
Greek (60,000 entries).
File format: Text
Standard in use: ISO
Character set: 8-bit ASCII and UNICODE
Means of delivery: CD-ROM, floppy disk or downloaded from the Web.
Related tools: Word Translator(TM), NeuroTran=AE, InterTran(TM),
MobileTran(TM).
Please see http://www.tranexp.com for more information
The price per entry is as follows
Price for ELRA members:
For research use For commercial use
GROUP 1 0.06 ECU/entry 0.25 ECU/entry
GROUP 2 0.03 ECU/entry 0.18 ECU/entry
GROUP 3 0.04 ECU/entry 0.20 ECU/entry
GROUP 4 0.04 ECU/entry 0.20 ECU/entry
GROUP 5 0.50 ECU/entry 1.00 ECU/entry
GROUP 6 0.12 ECU/entry 0.50 ECU/entry
Price for non members
For research use For commercial use
GROUP 1 0.12 ECU/entry 0.50 ECU/entry
GROUP 2 0.06 ECU/entry 0.36 ECU/entry
GROUP 3 0.08 ECU/entry 0.40 ECU/entry
GROUP 4 0.08 ECU/entry 0.40 ECU/entry
GROUP 5 1.00 ECU/entry 2.00 ECU/entry
GROUP 6 0.24 ECU/entry 1.00 ECU/entry
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For more information, please contact:
ELRA/ELDA
55-57 rue Brillat Savarin
75013 PARIS
Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30
E-mail: info-elra@calva.net
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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