Data Set

Linguistic Data Consortium

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is an open consortium of universities, libraries, corporations and government research laboratories that provides access to data on language technology research and development. Datasets available include, but are not limited to, the following: Korean Telephone Conversations Complete Set; Korean Broadcast News Speech; Korean Treebank Annotations Version 2.0; Korean Newswire Second Edition; Korean Broadcast News Transcripts; Chinese Treebank; CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts; Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English; CALLHOME Spanish Speech; ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English; NUBUC; Chinese Gigaword Fifth Edition; Penn Korean Universal Dependency Treebank ; Mixer 3 Speech ; LORELEI Zulu Representative Language Pack, Samromur Queries Icelandic Speech 1.0

Documentation
Access Instructions
  • Available to authorized IU Bloomington users (on or off campus). Specific datasets are available to registered users, but users may request the Libraries purchase a dataset by submitting a purchase request form with the relevant details.

    Individual user accounts are required to download data. Go to https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login and "create a new account." Review the Terms and Conditions and click "accept." Fill out the New User Registration, be sure to enter "Indiana University" in the Organization field. The Libraries will receive a notice to confirm the status of the registrant; the registrant will receive a notice once they have been recognized as a member of Indiana University. The registrant will receive an additional email, "Linguistic Data Consortium Confirmation instructions," requesting that they confirm their account email. The registrant must click on this link to complete the setup of their account. Note that this email may be filtered into email junk/spam folders. Once you have set up and confirmed your account, navigate to "Downloads," and initiate a download of the desired dataset to your personal computer.

Keyword Subject
  • Linguistics
Domain Subject
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Hosting Unit
Campus
Access Eligibility