We are happy to announce that 1 new written corpus is now available in our catalogue. Moreover, 4 speech resources are now available at reduced fees.

1) New Language Resource:

German Political Speeches Corpus

ISLRN: 381-445-879-769-5

This corpus consists of a collection of political speeches in German crawled from the online archive of the German presidency (Bundespraësident) and the Chancellery (Bundesregierung). For the German Presidency the speeches are available from July 1, 1984 to February 17, 2012 and the corpus contain a total of 1442 texts comprising 2 392 074 tokens. For the German Chancellery, the corpus contains a total of 1831 text comprising 3 891 588 tokens covering a period from December 11, 1998 to December 6, 2011. This corpus contains speeches from the Chancellor but also from other politicians.

2) Reduced fees for the following speech resources:

• Chinese Mandarin (South) database
• Chinese Mandarin (North) database
• Japanese Kids Speech database (Lower Grade)
• Japanese Kids Speech database (Upper Grade) 

For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please contact us.
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