SHACHI - Language Resource Metadata Database

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The Danish Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550 adult speakers and 50 child speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).

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The Dutch from the Netherlands Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550 adult speakers and 50 child speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).

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The Dutch from Belgium Speecon database comprises the recordings of 550 adult speakers and 50 child speakers who uttered respectively over 290 items and 210 items (read and spontaneous).

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The French-Canadian Speecon database is divided into 2 sets:
1) The first set comprises the recordings of 550 adult French-Canadian speakers (276 males, 274 females), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 4 recording environments (office, entertainment, car, public place).
2) The second set comprises the recordings of 50 child French-Canadian speakers (20 boys, 30 girls), recorded over 4 microphone channels in 1 recording environment (children room).

This database is partitioned into 29 DVDs (first set) and 4 DVDs (second set).
The speech databases made within the Speecon project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the Speecon format and content specifications. Each of the four speech channels is recorded at 16 kHz, 16 bit, uncompressed unsigned integers in Intel format (lo-hi byte order). To each signal file corresponds an ASCII SAM label file which contains the relevant descriptive information.

Each speaker uttered the following items (over 290 items for adults and over 210 items for children):
Calibration data:
- 6 noise recordings
- The “silence word” recording
Free spontaneous items (adults only):
- 5 minutes (session time) of free spontaneous, rich context items (story telling) (an open number of spontaneous topics out of a set of 30 topics)
- 17 Elicited spontaneous items (adults only):
- 3 dates, 2 times, 3 proper names, 2 city names, 1 letter sequence, 2 answers to questions, 3 telephone numbers, 1 language
Read speech:
- 30 phonetically rich sentences uttered by adults and 60 uttered by children
- 5 phonetically rich words (adults only)
- 4 isolated digits
- 1 isolated digit sequence
- 4 connected digit sequences
- 1 telephone number
- 3 natural numbers
- 1 money amount
- 2 time phrases (T1 : analogue, T2 : digital)
- 3 dates (D1 : analogue, D2 : relative and general date, D3 : digital)
- 3 letter sequences
- 1 proper name
- 2 city or street names
- 2 questions
- 2 special keyboard characters
- 1 Web address
- 1 email address
- 213 application specific words and phrases per session (adults)
- 74 toy commands, 14 phone commands and 34 general commands (children)

The following age distribution has been obtained:
- Adults: 220 speakers are between 15 and 30, 226 speakers are between 31 and 45, 104 speakers are over 46.
- Children: 24 speakers are between 8 and 10, and 26 speakers are between 11 and 15.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also included.

This corpus forms a database of essays written by learners of Japanese as a Second Language (JSL). The data include Japanese essays written by about 1,600 learners from 21 countries, as well as translations of the essays made by the learners in their first languages, and corrections of the Japanese essays made by Japanese language teachers. The database serves as a useful resource for research in such fields as contrastive linguistic studies and JSL pedagogy.

The National Institute for Japanese language is designing the database for the purpose of application for the education. The education means teachers and schools of Japanese education not only for the Japanese learners but also for the Japanese teachers learning teaching methods. To serve this purposes, the database includes:
1) comparison between the speech data by the learners Japanese and their mother tongue.
2) comparison between the learners spoken Japanese and written Japanese.

The National Institute for Japanese Language has been making a collection of newspaper clippings since 1949.
We cut out newspaper articles related to the Japanese language and have arranged them in bound volumes.Since 1949, a wide range of articles on Japanese writing, phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, dialects, linguistic life and the Japanese language in general have been collected.
The collection includes the morning and evening editions of nationally circulated newspapers (Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri, etc.) and local newspapers (Tokyo, Nishi Nihon, Hokkaido, etc.).Since May, 1989, the subject of collection has been limited to the three national newspapers (Asahi, Mainichi, and Yomiuri).
The number of newspaper articles collected between 1949 and 2004 is over 127, 000 and approximately 4,000 articles are collected and subsequently added to the archives every year.
Searchable, basic information on each article (date of issue, name of newspaper, headlines) is available on the “Headline Database of Newspaper Articles relating to the Japanese language" since 2002.

Written language in modern Japanese was established between the late 19th century and the beginning of 20th century. For the purpose of the research and analysis of Japanese language of this period, two kinds of corpus data has been developed, "Taiyo Corpus" and "Kindai Josei Zasshi Corpus".Since this corpus collects the language appeared in the magazines for women and children, it serves as an ideal comparison with Taoyo corpus.

This is an information packet which contains acoustic and written data of Japanese dialect discourses spoken by the old native speakers. The data were collected in the project for the recording and preservation of the traditional Japanese dialects held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs during 1977-1985, and they will be compiled into 20 volumes in total (available in CD-ROM/CD/BOOKS). All volumes would provide us with valuable information to know the current status of the Japanese dialects, and it would contribute to Japanese language research and education.

PennBioIE is a biomedical information extraction project at the University of Pennsylvania. The PennBioIE corpus consists of 2258 Medline abstracts which have been manually annotated for paragraphs, sentences, part of speech, and a set of biomedical entity types defined for this project and specific to each domain. In addition, 642 of the abstracts have been syntactically annotated. The entity and POS annotated data are available in three formats; HTML view, WordFreak files and XML format. The syntactically annotated files are stored in the Penn Treebank format.