ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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    ELRA is happy to announce that QUAERO Structured Named Entity     Language Resources are now available in its catalogue.
    A Written Corpus and a Broadcast Resource annotated with Structured     Named Entities from the QUAERO Programme are now being released     (free for academic research):
   
    ELRA-W0073 Quaero Old Press Extended Named Entity corpus
    This corpus consists of the manual annotation of 76 newspaper issues     published in 1890-1891 and provided by the French National Library     (Bibliothèque Nationale de France). Three different titles are used     (Le Temps, La Croix and Le Figaro) for a total of 295 pages. The     corpus is fully manually annotated according to the Quaero extended     and structured named entity definition.
    For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1194&language=en
   
    ELRA-S0349 Quaero Broadcast News Extended Named Entity corpus
    This corpus consists of the manual annotation of (i) the ESTER 2     (see also ELRA-S0338) manual transcription corpus and (ii) the     Quaero Speech Recognition Evaluation corpus (manual and automatic     transcriptions coming from 3 different ASR systems). The corpus is     fully manually annotated according to the Quaero extended and     structured named entity definition.
    For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1195&language=en
   
    These two corpora are described in :
    S. Rosset, C. Grouin, K. Fort, O. Galibert, J. Kahn, P. Zweigenbaum.     Structured Named Entities in two distinct press corpora:     Contemporary Broadcast News and Old Newspapers. In Proc. of LAW VI,     2012.
   
    QUAERO is a research and innovation program adressing automatic     processing of multimedia and multilingual content aiming at the     development of new tools for navigating in large volumes of text and     audiovisual content. The research and development undertaken covers     automatic information retrieval, analysis, segmentation and     classification of text, speech, music, image and video. The program,     supported by OSEO, gathers 32 French and German partners -- large     groups, small and medium size enterprises, research laboratories and     public organizations.  The program consists of a number of     application projects aiming at industrial targets and markets that     are supported by a common shared research  structure. Real world     data sets (corpora) are used to define the evaluation tasks and to     conduct the research challenges between partners. The use of     systematic periodic technology evaluation allows to assess progress     made and to  select the most promising technical and scientific     approaches. After nearly five years of existence, Quaero is a very     active eco-system that has produced in excess of 700 scientific     publications, more than 25 awards, numerous top 3 rankings  in     technology evaluation campaigns, 31 patent applications and many     innovative prototypes.
   
    To find out more about QUAERO, please visit the following website: http://www.quaero.org
   
    For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie     Mapelli mailto:mapelli@elda.org
   
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