GALE

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GALE: Task Specifications and Annotation Guidelines

Task specifications state needs and assumptions for each task, describe the process for collecting and/or selecting data for that task, define annotation and quality control procedures associated with the task, and describe the distribution formats for the resulting data. LDC's GALE tasks include

• Collection
• Broadcast data (news and talk shows) (updated 4/1/2008)
• Broadcast auditing (updated 4/1/2008)
  
• Web data (blogs and newsgroups)
• Transcription
• XTrans (speech annotation toolkit) manual V3 (updated 10/11/2007)
  
• Translation
• Word Alignment
• Arabic Word Alignment V2.0 (updated 5/20/2008)
• Chinese Word Alignment V2.0 (updated 5/20/2008)
  
• XBanks
• Arabic Treebank (updated 2/21/2008)
• English-Arabic Treebank
  
• Distillation
• Phase 2 Training Data Annotation Guidelines V2.3 (updated 03/01/2007)
  
• Evaluation Resources
• Data Selection Guidelines V2.2 (updated 01/02/2007)
• Machine Translation Post Editing 
• Post Editing Guidelines V3.0.2 (updated 05/25/2007)
• Resource Distribution
• Resource Distribution (updated 4/1/2008)
  

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