Linguistic Data Consortium

EARS ARABIC SPEECH TRANSCRIPTION GUIDELINES

January 16, 2004 Meeting

AGENDA

08:30 AM - 09:00 AM	Continental Breakfast provided  at LDC
09:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcome and Introductory Remarks -- Mark Liberman and/or Chris Cieri
09:15 AM - 9:45 AM	General Guidelines for RT-04 EARS transcription -- Stephanie Strassel
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM	Introduction and presentation of the LDC Arabic Multi-Dialectal Transcription Tool (AMADAT) -- Mohamed Maamouri & Hubert Jin
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM	Presentation of RT-04 Arabic Telephone Speech Transcription Conventions  --  Mohamed Maamouri, LDC
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 AM - 12:00  PM	Presentation and discussion of the Levantine Arabic Transcription Guidelines:
	Levantine Arabic MSAT Guidelines  -- Tim Buckwalter
	Levantine Arabic AOST Guidelines  -- Tim Buckwalter
12:00 PM - 12:30 AM	Presentation of APPEN Iraqi Arabic Speech Transcription Preliminary Results  --  Vera Scurr, APPEN, Australia
12:30 AM -  01:30 PM	Lunch provided by and at LDC
01:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Discussion, action items and wrap-up
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM	General discussion of Arabic Transcription conventions for STT