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New publications: MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Packhttps://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S13 Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 - Machine Translationshttps://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T11

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New publications: MATERIAL Farsi-English Language Packhttps://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S13 was developed by Appenhttp://www.appen.com/ for the IARPA MATERIALhttps://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material program and contains 61 hours of Farsi conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 30% of the speech files, and approximately 3% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes English queries and their relevance annotations.

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.

2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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Abstract Meaning Representation 3.0 - Machine Translationshttps://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T11 was developed by the Center for Computational Linguistics at KU Leuvenhttps://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ling/ccl in the HORIZON2020https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-2020_en project SignONhttps://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101017255. It is an automatic translation of a subset of sentences from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) Annotation Release 3.0 (LDC2020T02)https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T02 into Spanish, Irish Gaelic, and Dutch.

AMR 3.0 training, development, and test splits were translated using Google Translatehttps://translate.google.com. "Unsplit" directories were not translated and are not included in this release. Translations were not manually verified, but formal issues (such as unexpected new lines) were corrected, and special tokens and encoding issues were fixed with the Python tool ftfy.fix_texthttps://ftfy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

AMR 3.0 is a semantic treebank of over 59,000 English natural language sentences drawn from material collected by LDC, specifically, discussion forum text from the DARPA BOLT and DARPA DEFT programs, transcripts and English translations of Mandarin Chinese broadcast news programming, Wall Street Journal text, translated Xinhua news texts, various newswire texts from NIST OpenMT evaluations, and weblog data from the DARPA GALE program.

2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee.

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