GALE Kickoff Release #1: Contents


1. Broadcast News Audio V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E62
Genre: Broadcast News
Type: Audio
Languages: Arabic, Chinese
Volume: 27.5 hours/Arabic; 50 hours/Chinese
Epoch: 10/1/2004 - 12/10/2004
Sources:
Arabic -- Lebanese Broadcast Corporation (27.5 hrs)
Chinese -- China Central TV (21.5 hours)
                 New Tang Dynasty (8.5 hours)
                 Voice of America (20 hours)
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

2. VOA Arabic Broadcast News Audio V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E60
Genre: Broadcast News
Type: Audio
Languages: Arabic
Volume: 10 hours
Epoch: 01/2000 - 03/2001
Sources: Voice of America
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

3. VOA Arabic Broadcast News Transcripts V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E71
Genre: Broadcast News
Type: Audio
Languages: Arabic
Volume:
Epoch: 01/2000 - 03/2001
Sources: Voice of America
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005


4. Broadcast Conversation Audio V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E61
Genre: Broadcast Conversation
Type: Audio
Languages: Arabic, Chinese
Volume: 20 hours/Arabic; 25 hours/Chinese
Epoch: ---
Sources: 
Arabic --
Chinese --
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

5. Broadcast Conversation Transcripts V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E63
Genre: Broadcast Conversation
Type: Transcripts
Languages: Arabic, Chinese
Volume: --
Epoch: ---
Sources:
Arabic --
Chinese --
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

6. Arabic Names Extracted from ACE V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E66
Type: Database
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

7. Arabic Names Extracted from ATB V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E68
Type: Database
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005

8. Parallel Arabic-English Treebank V1.0

Catalog ID: LDC2005E69
Genre: Newswire/translations
Type: Treebank
Status: RELEASED 10/17/2005