Subject: New Corpus from the LDC
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 15:27:19 EDT
From: LDC Office <ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu>


                Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the
                   LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM

                 JAPANESE FINANCIAL NEWS CORPUS

The Linguistic Data Consortium announces the availability of a
Japanese language text corpus composed of business and financial news
from two sources:

1) Approximately 30 million words of text have been made available
from the morning edition of Nihon Kezai Shimbun, the largest Japanese
financial news daily newspaper; the release this year covers all text
that was published during 1994. 

The data was received at the LDC on 9-track magnetic tape; the
character encoding was EBCDIC, but was standardized to EUC, which the
LDC has chosen as its standard for Japanese.

2) A smaller part of the corpus comes from Dow Jones Telerate, which
markets its Japanese Language Service. This is a financial newswire
produced by Kyodo News Service; its recipients are primarily managers
of Japanese owned corporations, or Japanese employees working in
North American brokerage houses, banking, etc. The text is received
at the LDC via a digital transmission service installed by Telerate;
special software was written by the LDC to poll a central database
and download articles individually. The character encoding is EUC.

The copyright holders of this text have requested that it be made
available to LDC members only. Inquiries about the corpus or requests
for it, or information about becoming members for the 1995 membership
year should be directed to ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.

Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be
accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ldc. Information is also available via ftp
at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use
"anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked
for password.