From corpora-request@lists.uib.no Thu Aug 15 22:21:30 1996 Subject: LDC-Online Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:46:39 EDT From: LDC Office Introducing a New Service from the Linguistic Data Consortium LDC-Online is a new search and retrieval service, offering convenient WWW access to the text and speech corpora of the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). For more detailed information, or to try it out, see the LDC-Online item on the LDC's home page (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu). All LDC text and speech resources are indexed for convenient online access, as long as no copyright or other restrictions prevent it. You can browse (where the copyright owner permits), or search by word, lemma or part-of-speech, or search with (limited) regular expressions combining these elements. Statistics such as word frequency and mutual information between words are also available. Retrieved speech can be displayed or played via a Java applet (for users with Java-aware browsers). A Netscape "helper application" is also available for transferring speech to other programs such as Entropic's waves+. LDC-Online is free to researchers at current LDC member institutions. An interactive tutorial is available to members and non-members alike, as is a guest account permitting access to the Brown text corpus and the TIMIT speech corpus.