1. Publication title
CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts ¨C XML Version

2. Authors
Tony McEnery, Richard Xiao

3. Data type
Text

4. Data source
CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts (LDC96T16)

5. Project
Contrastive English and Chinese

6. Applications
As this annotated XML version has retained all information encoded in the original lease, it is suitable for all applications of LDC96T16 in addition to grammatical study of spoken Mandarin.

7. Language
cmn BN L Chinese, Mandarin

8. Licensing conditions
Same as CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Transcripts (LDC96T16)

9. Funding agency and grant number
The UK Economic and Social Research Council, RES-000-23-0553

10. Copyright
Lingusitic Data Consortium (LDC) 2008

11. Description of the corpus structure and data attributes
Data type:			text
File formats:		XML
Character encoding:		UTF-8
Number of unique words:	6,895	
Total number of words:	300,767
Number of data files:		120
Size of data (uncompressed):	8.62 MB

Contents of folders:
Data:			120 data files in XML format
Doc:			user manual, part-of-speech tagset
DTD:			CALLHOME Mandarin DTD file

12. Quality control
All of the 120 XML files have been checked for well-formedness and validated using XMLSpy v.2008.
The DTD file is generated automatically by XMLSpy v.2008.
This XML edition of CALLHOME Mandarin Chinese Trasncript corpus is recommended for use with Xaira - XML Aware Indexing and Retrieval Architecture released by Oxford University Computing Services, which is an open source package availale at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/xaira/.



Tony McEnery
Richard Xiao

05 May 2008