Korean Broadcast News Transcripts
| Item Name: | Korean Broadcast News Transcripts |
| Author(s): | Stephanie Strassel, Nii Martey, David Graff |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2006T14 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-399-2 |
| ISLRN: | 030-163-048-673-0 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/h4ag-tj85 |
| Release Date: | August 24, 2006 |
| Member Year(s): | 2006 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Text |
| Data Source(s): | broadcast news |
| Application(s): | machine translation, natural language processing |
| Language(s): | Korean |
| Language ID(s): | kor |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2006T14 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Strassel, Stephanie, Nii Martey, and David Graff. Korean Broadcast News Transcripts LDC2006T14. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2006. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
Korean Broadcast News Transcripts was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and consists of transcripts for 13 hours of Voice of America satellite radio news broadcasts in Korean. The broadcasts were recorded by the LDC at transmission time during a two week period between January 21, 2000 and February 7, 2000.
Data
This corpus contains 18 broadcast transcription text files. Ten of the broadcasts are 30 minutes long, and the other eight broadcasts are 60 minutes long. The file names indicate the date (YYYYMMDD) and the begin and end times (HHMM EST) of the original transmission.
The character encoding is Unicode UTF-8, and the file contents are structured using SGML. The markup strategy used here was defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) specifically for use in transcripts of broadcast news speech. The "docs" directory provides a working DTD file, a complete description (in the form of a PostScript file) of the document structure, tags and attributes, and a simple text file listing the 18 data file names in the corpus.
The transcripts have been manually time aligned at the phrasal level and annotated to identify boundaries between news stories and speaker turns; speaker names and gender are given where identifiable. These annotations are all provided via the SGML tags and their attributes.
A strong effort has been made to identify all unique speakers across the transcripts. However, there may be cases where an individual speaker has not been recognized and has been given a unique, anonymous identification.
The corresponding speech files for these transcripts are available in Korean Broadcast News Speech (LDC2006S42).
Samples
Please view this transcript sample (SGML).
Updates
None at this time.