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ISCApad #248 |
| Tuesday, February 12, 2019 by Chris Wellekens |
5-2 Database
| 5-2-1 | Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) update (January 2019)
January 2019 Newsletter
In this newsletter:
Renew Your LDC Membership Today
New publications:
BOLT Arabic Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data
SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus
Renew Your LDC Membership Today
Join LDC while membership savings are still available. Now through March 1, 2019, all organizations receive a discount on the 2019 membership fee (up to 10%) when they choose to join the Consortium or renew their membership. This year’s planned publications include Multilanguage Conversational Telephone Speech (telephone speech in languages/dialects considered mutually intelligible or closely related), IARPA Babel Language Packs (telephone speech and transcripts in underserved languages), Chinese Abstract Meaning Representation Corpus, SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus, data from BOLT, HAVIC, DEFT, TAC KBP and more. Membership remains the most economical way to access LDC releases. Visit Join LDC for details on membership options and benefits.
New publications:
(1) BOLT Arabic Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data was developed by LDC and consists of 1,169,599 tokens of Egyptian Arabic discussion forum data collected for the DARPA BOLT program along with their corresponding English translations.
LDC supported the BOLT program by collecting informal data sources -- discussion forums, text messaging, and chat -- in Chinese, Egyptian Arabic, and English. The collected data was translated and annotated for various tasks including word alignment, treebanking, propbanking, and co-reference.
The source data in this release consists of discussion forum threads harvested from the Internet by LDC using a combination of manual and automatic processes. The full source data collection is released as BOLT Arabic Discussion Forums (LDC2018T10).
Data was manually selected for translation according to several criteria, including linguistic features and topic features. The files were then segmented into sentence units, formatted into a human-readable translation format, and assigned to translation vendors. Translators followed LDC's BOLT translation guidelines. Bilingual LDC staff performed quality control procedures on the completed translations.
BOLT Arabic Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data is available as a web download.
2019 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for $1750.
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(2) SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus was developed by SRI International and is comprised of approximately 120 hours of English speech from 134 US middle school students working collaboratively. The data set also contains orthographic transcriptions, manual annotation of collaboration, log files, and supporting documentation.
This collection was part of a project investigating the utility of a speech-based learning analytics approach to collaborative learning. The goal was to determine whether detectable patterns exist in student speech that correlate with collaborative learning indicators and to provide a means of assessing collaboration quality. The participants were students in middle schools (grades six, seven, and eight) located in California. Students worked in groups of three on sets of short mathematics problems based on the 'cloze' task in which each student was assigned one blank and each problem required the students to work together and talk to each other to coordinate their three answers. The problems were presented on iPads with a custom software application and the audio data was captured by both head-mounted and table-top microphones.
SRI Speech-Based Collaborative Learning Corpus is available as a web download.
2019 Subscription Members will receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for $500.
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(3) TAC KBP Entity Discovery and Linking - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2014-2015 was developed by LDC and contains training and evaluation data produced in support of the TAC KBP Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL) tasks in 2014 and 2015. It includes queries, knowledge base (KB) links, equivalence class clusters for NIL entities, and entity type information for each of the queries. Also included in this data set are all necessary source documents as well as BaseKB - the second reference KB that was adopted for use by EDL in 2015. The first EDL reference KB to which 2014 EDL data are linked is available separately as TAC KBP Reference Knowledge Base (LDC2014T16).
The goal of the EDL track is to conduct end-to-end entity extraction, linking, and clustering. For producing gold standard data, given a document collection, annotators (1) extract (identify and classify) entity mentions (queries), link them to nodes in a reference KB and (2) perform cross-document co-reference on within-document entity clusters that cannot be linked to the KB.
Source data consists of Chinese, English, and Spanish newswire and web text collected by LDC. The EDL 2014 task involved English data only. Chinese and Spanish data were added in the 2015 task.
TAC KBP Entity Discovery and Linking - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2014-2015 is available as a web download.
2019 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2019 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for $2500.
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| 5-2-2 | ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update (October 2018) ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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We are happy to announce that 2 new Written Corpora and 4 new Speech resources are now available in our catalogue. ELRA-W0126 Training and test data for Arabizi detection and transliteration ISLRN: 986-364-744-303-9 The dataset is composed of : a collection of mixed English and Arabizi text intended to train and test a system for the automatic detection of code-switching in mixed English and Arabizi texts ; and a set of 3,452 Arabizi tokens manually transliterated into Arabic, intended to train and test a system that performs Arabizi to Arabic transliteration. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0126/ ELRA-W0127 Normalized Arabic Fragments for Inestimable Stemming (NAFIS)
ISLRN: 305-450-745-774-1 This is an Arabic stemming gold standard corpus composed by a collection of 37 sentences, selected to be representative of Arabic stemming tasks and manually annotated. Compiled sentences belong to various sources (poems, holy Quran, books, and periodics) of diversified kinds (proverb and dictum, article commentary, religious text, literature, historical fiction). NAFIS is represented according to the TEI standard. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0127/ ELRA-S0396 Mbochi speech corpus ISLRN: 747-055-093-447-8 This corpus consists of 5131 sentences recorded in Mbochi, together with their transcription and French translation, as well as the results from the work made during JSALT workshop: alignments at the phonetic level and various results of unsupervised word segmentation from audio. The audio corpus is made up of 4,5 hours, downsampled at 16kHz, 16bits, with Linear PCM encoding. Data is distributed into 2 parts, one for training consisting of 4617 sentences, and one for development consisting of 514 sentences. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0396/ ELRA-S0397 Chinese Mandarin (South) database ISLRN: 503-886-852-083-2 This database contains the recordings of 1000 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Southern China (500 males and 500 females), from 18 to 60 years? old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 341 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0397/ ELRA-S0398 Chinese Mandarin (North) database
ISLRN: 353-548-770-894-7 This database contains the recordings of 500 Chinese Mandarin speakers from Northern China (250 males and 250 females), from 18 to 60 years? old, recorded in quiet studios. Recordings were made through microphone headsets and consist of 172 hours of audio data (about 30 minutes per speaker), stored in .WAV files as sequences of 48 KHz Mono, 16 bits, Linear PCM. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0398/ ELRA-S0401 Persian Audio Dictionary ISLRN: 133-181-128-420-9 This dictionary consists of more than 50,000 entries (along with almost all wordforms and proper names) with corresponding audio files in MP3 and English transliterations. The words have been recorded with standard Persian (Farsi) pronunciation (all by a single speaker). This dictionary is provided with its software. For more information, see: http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0401/ For more information on the catalogue, please contact Valérie Mapelli mailto:mapelli@elda.org If you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please do not hesitate to contact us. Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info Archives of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates: http://www.elra.info/en/catalogues/language-resources-announcements/
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| 5-2-3 | Speechocean – update (November 2018)
Spanish ASR & TTS Corpus --- Speechocean
Speechocean: The World’s Leading A.I. Data Resource & Service Supplier
At present, we can provide data services with 110+ languages and dialects across the world. For more detailed information, please visit our website: http://kingline.speechocean.com
Spanish ASR & TTS Corpus
More Information
About ASR Corpus…
About TTS Corpus…
Contact Information: Name: Xianfeng Cheng Position: Vice President Tel: +86-10-62660928; +86-10-62660053 ext.8080 Mobile: +86-13681432590 Skype: xianfeng.cheng1 Email: chengxianfeng@speechocean.com Website: www.speechocean.com http://kingline.speechocean.com
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| 5-2-4 | Google 's Language Model benchmark A LM benchmark is available at:https://github.com/ciprian-chelba/1-billion-word-language-modeling-benchmark
Here is a brief description of the project.
'The purpose of the project is to make available a standard training and test setup for language modeling experiments. The training/held-out data was produced from a download at statmt.org using a combination of Bash shell and Perl scripts distributed here. This also means that your results on this data set are reproducible by the research community at large. Besides the scripts needed to rebuild the training/held-out data, it also makes available log-probability values for each word in each of ten held-out data sets, for each of the following baseline models:
ArXiv paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3005
Happy benchmarking!'
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| 5-2-5 | Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers Forensic database of voice recordings of 500+ Australian English speakers
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| 5-2-6 | Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings
Audio and Electroglottographic speech recordings from several languages We are happy to announce the public availability of speech recordings made as part of the UCLA project 'Production and Perception of Linguistic Voice Quality'. http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/voiceproject/voice.html Audio and EGG recordings are available for Bo, Gujarati, Hmong, Mandarin, Black Miao, Southern Yi, Santiago Matatlan/ San Juan Guelavia Zapotec; audio recordings (no EGG) are available for English and Mandarin. Recordings of Jalapa Mazatec extracted from the UCLA Phonetic Archive are also posted. All recordings are accompanied by explanatory notes and wordlists, and most are accompanied by Praat textgrids that locate target segments of interest to our project. Analysis software developed as part of the project – VoiceSauce for audio analysis and EggWorks for EGG analysis – and all project publications are also available from this site. All preliminary analyses of the recordings using these tools (i.e. acoustic and EGG parameter values extracted from the recordings) are posted on the site in large data spreadsheets. All of these materials are made freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-3.0 Unported License. This project was funded by NSF grant BCS-0720304 to Pat Keating, Abeer Alwan and Jody Kreiman of UCLA, and Christina Esposito of Macalester College. Pat Keating (UCLA)
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| 5-2-7 | EEG-face tracking- audio 24 GB data set Kara One, Toronto, Canada We are making 24 GB of a new dataset, called Kara One, freely available. This database combines 3 modalities (EEG, face tracking, and audio) during imagined and articulated speech using phonologically-relevant phonemic and single-word prompts. It is the result of a collaboration between the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (in the University Health Network) and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
In the associated paper (abstract below), we show how to accurately classify imagined phonological categories solely from EEG data. Specifically, we obtain up to 90% accuracy in classifying imagined consonants from imagined vowels and up to 95% accuracy in classifying stimulus from active imagination states using advanced deep-belief networks.
Data from 14 participants are available here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~complingweb/data/karaOne/karaOne.html.
If you have any questions, please contact Frank Rudzicz at frank@cs.toronto.edu.
Best regards, Frank
PAPER Shunan Zhao and Frank Rudzicz (2015) Classifying phonological categories in imagined and articulated speech. In Proceedings of ICASSP 2015, Brisbane Australia ABSTRACT This paper presents a new dataset combining 3 modalities (EEG, facial, and audio) during imagined and vocalized phonemic and single-word prompts. We pre-process the EEG data, compute features for all 3 modalities, and perform binary classi?cation of phonological categories using a combination of these modalities. For example, a deep-belief network obtains accuracies over 90% on identifying consonants, which is signi?cantly more accurate than two baseline supportvectormachines. Wealsoclassifybetweenthedifferent states (resting, stimuli, active thinking) of the recording, achievingaccuraciesof95%. Thesedatamaybeusedtolearn multimodal relationships, and to develop silent-speech and brain-computer interfaces.
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| 5-2-8 | TORGO data base free for academic use. In the spirit of the season, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the TORGO database free, in perpetuity for academic use. This database combines acoustics and electromagnetic articulography from 8 individuals with speech disorders and 7 without, and totals over 18 GB. These data can be used for multimodal models (e.g., for acoustic-articulatory inversion), models of pathology, and augmented speech recognition, for example. More information (and the database itself) can be found here: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~complingweb/data/TORGO/torgo.html.
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| 5-2-9 | Datatang Datatang is a global leading data provider that specialized in data customized solution, focusing in variety speech, image, and text data collection, annotation, crowdsourcing services.
Summary of the new datasets (2018) and a brief plan for 2019.
? Speech data (with annotation) that we finished in 2018
?2019 ongoing speech project
On top of the above, there are more planed speech data collections, such as Japanese speech data, children`s speech data, dialect speech data and so on.
What is more, we will continually provide those data at a competitive price with a maintained high accuracy rate.
If you have any questions or need more details, do not hesitate to contact us jessy@datatang.com
It would be possible to send you with a sample or specification of the data.
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| 5-2-10 | Fearless Steps Corpus (University of Texas, Dallas) Fearless Steps Corpus John H.L. Hansen, Abhijeet Sangwan, Lakshmish Kaushik, Chengzhu Yu Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS), Eric Jonsson School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Richardson, Texas, U.S.A.
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| 5-2-11 | SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database The SIWIS French Speech Synthesis Database includes high quality French speech recordings and associated text files, aimed at building TTS systems, investigate multiple styles, and emphasis. A total of 9750 utterances from various sources such as parliament debates and novels were uttered by a professional French voice talent. A subset of the database contains emphasised words in many different contexts. The database includes more than ten hours of speech data and is freely available.
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| 5-2-12 | JLCorpus - Emotional Speech corpus with primary and secondary emotions JLCorpus - Emotional Speech corpus with primary and secondary emotions:
For further understanding the wide array of emotions embedded in human speech, we are introducing an emotional speech corpus. In contrast to the existing speech corpora, this corpus was constructed by maintaining an equal distribution of 4 long vowels in New Zealand English. This balance is to facilitate emotion related formant and glottal source feature comparison studies. Also, the corpus has 5 secondary emotions along with 5 primary emotions. Secondary emotions are important in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), where the aim is to model natural conversations among humans and robots. But there are very few existing speech resources to study these emotions,and this work adds a speech corpus containing some secondary emotions. Please use the corpus for emotional speech related studies. When you use it please include the citation as: Jesin James, Li Tian, Catherine Watson, 'An Open Source Emotional Speech Corpus for Human Robot Interaction Applications', in Proc. Interspeech, 2018. To access the whole corpus including the recording supporting files, click the following link: https://www.kaggle.com/tli725/jl-corpus, (if you have already installed the Kaggle API, you can type the following command to download: kaggle datasets download -d tli725/jl-corpus) Or if you simply want the raw audio+txt files, click the following link: https://www.kaggle.com/tli725/jl-corpus/downloads/Raw%20JL%20corpus%20(unchecked%20and%20unannotated).rar/4 The corpus was evaluated by a large scale human perception test with 120 participants. The link to the survey are here- For Primary emorion corpus: https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ewmOCgOFCHpAj3 For Secondary emotion corpus: https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eVDINp8WkKpsPsh These surveys will give an overall idea about the type of recordings in the corpus. The perceptually verified and annotated JL corpus will be given public access soon.
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