(107) previous ~ index ~ next

---

To: David Graff <graff@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>
From: Jon Fiscus <jonathan.fiscus@nist.gov>
Subject: Re: Your questions will be answered...
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:27:15 -0400

---

Folks,

I'm at the speaker ID workshop at UMd. I will be responding to these
issues as quickly as possible.

Jon

David Graff wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I've been getting a small variety of messages from some of you that
> indicate there is some confusion about the recent English and Mandarin
> TDT2 text releases. Unfortunately, I am about to leave the country,
> and will not be back in touch until June 21.
>
> I have sent information to Jon Fiscus at NIST, and it should be
> possible for him to resolve and clarify any issues that come up (and
> for that, I am eternally grateful to him).
>
> For example, he can explain how to combine the topic tables from the
> two language collections to form a unified table, if this is needed.
> (The topic tables are now in the base directories of the respective
> releases, rather than being buried in the "tables" directory with the
> thousands of boundary tables.)
>
> And, he can explain how to deal with the fact that all VOA English
> files now match the file name pattern "*_VOA_ENG", instead of the
> three different file name patterns that confounded last year's
> releases.
>
> Please be sure to post future inquiries to tdt-distrib@ldc.upenn.edu
> -- not to me directly -- so that folks at NIST and/or LDC will be able
> to see the issues and respond to them as needed.
>
> Good luck with the data. I'll see you at the PI meeting.
>
> Dave Graff

---

(107) previous ~ index ~ next

Last updated Mon Jun 21 11:18:47 1999