15.531 UK/US funding opportunity; LDC-ELDA language resources

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       [1] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org> (19)
             Subject: JISC/NSF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND THE CLASSROOM: Revised
                     Deadlines

       [2] From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr> (51)
             Subject: LDC-ELDA: Joint Distribution of LR

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             Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:35:23 +0000
             From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
             Subject: JISC/NSF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND THE CLASSROOM: Revised
    Deadlines

    NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
    News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
    from across the Community
    February 28, 2002

                   JISC/NSF DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND THE CLASSROOM:
                  TESTBEDS FOR TRANSFORMING TEACHING AND LEARNING
                    http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf02085
                      http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/index.html
                         Proposal Deadline: May 26, 2002

    This joint US-UK funding opportunity is offered by the UK's Joint
    Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the US National Science Foundation
    (NSF). It will fund four projects at around $2,100,000 each over three
    years that involve at least one US and one UK institution and develop and
    implement "integrative and innovative ... educational environments, based
    on the use of information and
    communications technologies across a number of disciplines."

    An earlier deadline has been extended.

    David Green

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             Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:36:15 +0000
             From: Magali Duclaux <duclaux@elda.fr>
             Subject: LDC-ELDA: Joint Distribution of LR

    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: mapelli@elda.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: ldc@ldc.upenn.edu
    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu



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