The 1996 Broadcast News Speech And Language-Model Corpus

The 1996 Broadcast News Speech And Language-Model Corpus (1996)

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by David Graff

Venue:	Proceedings of the 1997 DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop
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TITLE	The 1996 Broadcast News Speech And Language-Model Corpus	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	David Graff	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
AUTHOR AFFIL	Linguistic Data Consortium; University of Pennsylvania	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	Philadelphia, PA	SVM HeaderParse 0.1
ABSTRACT	The Linguistic Data Consortium handled the recording, digitization, and transcription of 130 hours of radio and television news broadcasts. Of this material, 50 hours' worth was designated and published as a baseline training set, and 20 hours were prepared and distributed by NIST for use as development and evaluation test data, for the 1996 ARPA CSR Benchmark Tests. The remaining 60 hours were held in reserve for use as additional training and evaluation test data in the 1997 benchmarks. The LDC also acquired, conditioned and published a five-year archive of commercially produced broadcast transcripts for use in constructing language models for the broadcast news domain. These tasks posed a broad range of novel challenges for the LDC, as well as for those at NIST and elsewhere who were involved in defining, clarifying and applying the standards and requirements for this corpus. This paper summarizes the content of the corpus, reviews the established specifications for the transcriptio...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1996	user correction - Legacy Corrections
VENUE	Proceedings of the 1997 DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	11--14	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	1 found	ParsCit 1.0