TDT2 Careful Transcription Text

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title
  • TDT2 Careful Transcription Text
title.abbreviation
title.alternative
  • EARS, GALE, TDT, TIDES
creator
  • Stephanie Strassel and Nii Martey
subject
  • speech recognition, topic detection and tracking
subject.linguisticField
subject.monoMultilingual
  • monolingual
subject.resourceSubject
  • corpus
description
  • *Introduction*

    TDT2 (Topic Detection and Tracking) Careful Transcription was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and contains transcripts of English broadcast news audio recordings collected by LDC in 1998. The corresponding audio data is available in TDT2 Careful Transcription Audio LDC2000S92.

    Topic Detection and Tracking refers to automatic techniques for finding topically-related material in streams of data such as newswire and broadcast news. This corpus was created to support three TDT2 tasks: to find topically homogeneous sections (segmentation), to detect the occurrence of new events (detection) and to track the reoccurrence of old or new events (tracking).

    *Data*

    The broadcast data was collected from the following sources: ABC News, Cable News Network, Public Radio International and Voice of America.

    Please look at this sample transcript.

    *Updates*

    There are no updates at this time.
description.price *This metadata is only as a guide
description.language
  • English
description.inputDevice
description.inputEnvironment
description.speakingStyle
description.speechMode
description.samplingRate
description.additionalData
publisher
contributor
contributor.attribute.author.motherTongue
  • native
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  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.author.level
  • professional
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  • adult
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contributor.attribute.speaker.motherTongue
  • native
contributor.attribute.speaker.dialect
  • standard_dialect
contributor.attribute.speaker.level
  • professional
contributor.attribute.speaker.age
  • adult
contributor.attribute.speaker.gender
contributor.attribute.speaker.number
date.created
date.issued
  • 2000-00-00
date.modified
type
  • Text
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  • report
type.linguisticType
  • primary_text
type.purpose
  • developing_technologies Three TDT2 tasks: segmentation; find topically homogeneous sections
  • developing_technologies detection ;detect the occurrence of new events
  • developing_technologies tracking; track the reoccurrence of old or new events
type.style
  • written news paper
  • speech
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  • short
  • long
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  • annotated
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type.sample
  • sample transcript:









    Good evening. For the second time in a week, a widely recognized American
    figure has died when he was skiing and ran into a tree. Congressman Sonny
    Bono was first a songwriter in the nineteen sixties and then a popular entertainer.
    He was serving his second term in Congress when he died late yesterday at a
    ski resort on the border between California and Nevada. First, we go to Jane
    Clayson, who has the details of the accident.


    Sonny Bono was on a family vacation at the Heavenly Ski Resort when the
    accident happened. Early yesterday afternoon, the sixty two year old congressman
    left his wife and two young daughters at the top of the mountain and
    started down the slope alone. At some point, he veered off into this wooded area,
    lost control and slammed into a tree, going twenty to thirty miles per hour. Bono
    died instantly.


    His death was caused by massive head injuries due to blunt force trauma.


    His wife reported him missing as the lifts were closing for the day, and
    two hours later, the ski patrol found his body, twenty five feet from the groomed trail
    in an area that was not off limits.


    It's very common for those uh for skiers to go into that wooded area, go in
    and out of it um. It's not uncommon whatsoever. So it's part of the run, if
    you will.


    Sonny Bono was an advanced skier on an intermediate run, the Orion trail.
    And he was familiar with this popular South Lake Tahoe resort, having skied
    at Heavenly for more than twenty years.
    No one saw the accident, but conditions on the mountain were clear at the
    time. Initial autopsy reports indicate Bono was not under the influence of
    alcohol or any other substance. It just appears this was a horrible
    accident. Jane Clayson, _A_B_C News, South Lake Tahoe, California.








    http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/desc/addenda/LDC2000T44.utf
format.extent
  • Corpus size: 1058830 KB
format.medium
  • Web Download
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format.functionality
identifier
identifier.doi
identifier.islrn
  • 387-208-758-013-8
source
  • broadcast (1998 broadcasts): ABC News,Cable News Network (CNN),Public Radio International (PRI),Voice of America (VOA)
language
  • English
language.area
  • Europe
relation
relation.utilization *This metadata is automatically extracted
  • We ranked all of the sentences in a collection of documents based on their similarity to a TDT topic description.
coverage.temporal
coverage.spacial
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