MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack
| Item Name: | MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack |
| Author(s): | Aric Bills, Judith Bishop, Anne Boyle, Sarra Chouder, Nathaniel Clair, Tom Conners, Cassian Corey, Kristina Cronin, Eyal Dubinski, Corinna Ellis, Paul Gibby, Simon Hammond, Guia Hidalgo, Alice Kaiser-Schatzlein, Dagmara Kalnins, Michael Kazi, Julie Lam, Rosie Lazar, Hanh Le, Nicolas Malyska, Olivia Medel, Jennifer Melot, Alyssa Mensch, Alex Moore, Michelle Morrison, Shelley Paget, Alston Raymer, Fred Richardson, Hristina Ridgway, Annette Roberts, Carl Rubino, Kenneth Saw, Sinney Shen, Stephanie Soh, Jonathan Taylor, Brian Thompson, Audrey Tong, Richard Tong, Mariana Williams, Julie Yelle, Jennifer Yu, Yoanna Zavora, Ilya Zavorin |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2024S07 |
| ISLRN: | 450-346-825-481-3 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/fs0v-4606 |
| Release Date: | July 15, 2024 |
| Member Year(s): | 2024 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Sound, Text |
| Sample Type: | alaw |
| Sample Rate: | 8000 |
| Data Source(s): | telephone conversations |
| Application(s): | information retrieval, speech recognition |
| Language(s): | Bulgarian, English |
| Language ID(s): | bul, eng |
| License(s): |
MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Agreement (For-Profit) MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Agreement (Non-Member) MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Agreement (Not-For-Profit) |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2024S07 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Bills, Aric, et al. MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack LDC2024S07. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2024. |
Introduction
MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack was developed by Appen for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains approximately 80 hours of Bulgarian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations and queries.
The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries.
Data
The Bulgarian speech in this release represents the Western and Eastern dialects. The gender distribution among speakers is approximately equal; speakers' ages range from 16 years to 67 years. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments including the street, a home or office, a public place, and inside a vehicle.
Transcripts cover approximately 40% of the speech files, and approximately 10% of the speech files were translated into English. Further information about transcription and translation methodologies is contained in the documentation accompanying this release.
Bulgarian-English Language Pack also includes domain annotations, English queries and their relevance annotations. Annotators marked transcripts by domain (e.g., lifestyle, business-and-commerce, sports, education, and so on), by query (simple, conceptual, hybrid) and by their relevance to query search terms.
Speech data is presented either as two channel wav or single channel sphere files, both in 8kHz A-law format. All text data is UTF-8 encoded.
Samples
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Updates
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