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Last updated: July
25, 2003
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New LT Ressources Version 0.2 of Open Source Parallel Corpus: OPUS Version
0.2 of the corpus contains roughly 30 million tokens in
60 languages. OPUS is sentence aligned (1830 language pairs),
tokenized, and partly tagged. [See also First Release of the TIGER Treebank - Version 1 The
first release of the TIGER Treebank (Version 1) consists
of app. 700,000 tokens (40,000 sentences) of German newspaper
text, taken from the Frankfurter Rundschau. The corpus was semi-automatically
tagged with syntactic structures. [For details see LDC to Announce the Availability of two New Publications The 2001 Communicator Evaluation is the second
publication to result
from the Communicator program. [...] All audio files have
been converted into SPHERE format; there are 53394 sphere files,
totalling approximately 102 hours of audio. [For more
ELRA to announce four new Language Resources Available now Spanish Speech Corpus 1 and Spanish
TTS Corpus, Italien Speech Corpus 1 and Italian TTS Corpus.
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Selection
for E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for the Year 2003 concluded. LREC
2004 in Lisbon, Portugal COLING
2004 in Geneva, Switzerland Speech
Recognition Software to save Millions in Banking Industry. Revenue
Record for SpeechWorks in the Second Quarter. TiVo
to implement TuVox Conversational Voice Response Solution. Maxxar
Corporation to announce Speaker Verification Component on its
Speech Recognition Platform. |
Web
Access for the Blind via Phone by InternetSpeech and NFB Team. IBM
and Xybernaut to deploy Mobile Computers for Children with Special
Needs. Gartner
Dataquest to identify Semantic Web as one of four new technologies
to push Web Services. Wizzard
Software to offer Transcription Solutions with IBM ViaVoice. Decrypting
the Sense of Instant Messages. New
Speech-Technology Applications to affect Small-Office and Home-Office
Market. L&H
Founders to pay a $539 million Verdict in Dictaphone Case. InBoxer
Software from Audiotrieve prevents from Spam overlaod in MS
Outlook. Mandy
Pet, recently affiliated with Oracle now to run TRADOS Government
Solutions Group. |
Goodbye "e-mail," the French government says, and hello "courriel" — the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer to electronic mail in official documents. The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or websites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. The ministry's General Commission on Terminology and Neology insists Internet surfers in France are broadly using the term "courrier electronique" (electronic mail) instead of e-mail — a claim some industry experts dispute. "Courriel" is a fusion of the two words. "Evocative, with a very French sound, the word 'courriel' is broadly used in the press and competes advantageously with the borrowed 'mail' in English," the commission said. [Read more |
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