no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Karen Jones, Kevin Walker, Christopher Caruso, Jonathan Wright, Stephanie Strassel
The WeCanTalk (WCT) Corpus is a new multi-language, multi-modal resource for speaker recognition.
no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Sunghye Cho, Stephanie Strassel, James Fiumara, Jonathan Wright
The Linguistic Data Consortium was founded in 1992 to solve the problem that limitations in access to shareable data was impeding progress in Human Language Technology research and development.
no code implementations • NIDCP (LREC) 2022 • James Fiumara, Christopher Cieri, Mark Liberman, Chris Callison-Burch, Jonathan Wright, Robert Parker
NIEUW leverages the power of novel incentives to elicit linguistic data and annotations from a wide variety of contributors including citizen scientists, game players, and language students and professionals.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • James Fiumara, Christopher Cieri, Jonathan Wright, Mark Liberman
Like other Citizen Science platforms and projects, LanguageARC harnesses the power and efforts of volunteers who are motivated by the incentives of contributing to science, learning and discovery, and belonging to a community dedicated to social improvement.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Christopher Cieri, James Fiumara, Stephanie Strassel, Jonathan Wright, Denise DiPersio, Mark Liberman
This latest in a series of Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) progress reports to the LREC community does not describe any single language resource, evaluation campaign or technology but sketches the activities, since the last report, of a data center devoted to supporting the work of LREC attendees among other research communities.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Karen Jones, Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, Jonathan Wright
Speakers used a variety of handsets, including landline and mobile devices, and made VoIP calls from tablets or computers.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Karen Jones, Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, David Graff, Jonathan Wright
The Multi-language Speech (MLS) Corpus supports NIST{'}s Language Recognition Evaluation series by providing new conversational telephone speech and broadcast narrowband data in 20 languages/dialects.
no code implementations • WS 2014 • Ann Bies, Zhiyi Song, Mohamed Maamouri, Stephen Grimes, Haejoong Lee, Jonathan Wright, Stephanie Strassel, Nizar Habash, Esk, Ramy er, Owen Rambow
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Jonathan Wright
As linguistic collection and annotation scale up and collaboration across sites increases, novel technologies are necessary to support projects.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Zhiyi Song, Stephanie Strassel, Haejoong Lee, Kevin Walker, Jonathan Wright, Jennifer Garland, Dana Fore, Brian Gainor, Preston Cabe, Thomas Thomas, Brendan Callahan, Ann Sawyer
The DARPA BOLT Program develops systems capable of allowing English speakers to retrieve and understand information from informal foreign language genres.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Christopher Cieri, Denise DiPersio, Mark Liberman, Andrea Mazzucchi, Stephanie Strassel, Jonathan Wright
Despite the growth in the number of linguistic data centers around the world, their accomplishments and expansions and the advances they have help enable, the language resources that exist are a small fraction of those required to meet the goals of Human Language Technologies (HLT) for the worldÂ’s languages and the promises they offer: broad access to knowledge, direct communication across language boundaries and engagement in a global community.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Nancy Ide, James Pustejovsky, Christopher Cieri, Eric Nyberg, Di Wang, Keith Suderman, Marc Verhagen, Jonathan Wright
The Language Application (LAPPS) Grid project is establishing a framework that enables language service discovery, composition, and reuse and promotes sustainability, manageability, usability, and interoperability of natural language Processing (NLP) components.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Jonathan Wright, Kira Griffitt, Joe Ellis, Stephanie Strassel, Brendan Callahan
In recent months, LDC has developed a web-based annotation infrastructure centered around a tree model of annotations and a Ruby on Rails application called the LDC User Interface (LUI).