GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast News Transcripts

<h3>Introduction</h3><br>
<p>GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast News Transcripts was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and contains transcriptions of approximately 37 hours of Arabic broadcast news speech collected in 2008 and 2009 by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), MediaNet, Tunis, Tunisia and MTC, Rabat, Morocco during Phase 4 of the DARPA GALE (Global Autonomous Language Exploitation) program.</p><br>
<p>Corresponding audio data is released as GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast News Speech (<a href="../../../LDC2018S05">LDC2018S05</a>).</p><br>
<p>The recordings for transcription feature news broadcasts focusing principally on current events from the following sources: Abu Dhabi TV, a television station based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Al Arabiya, a news television station based in Dubai; Al Baghdadya , an Iraqi broadcast programmer; Alhurra, a U.S. government-funded regional broadcaster; Al Iraqiyah, an Iraqi television station; Aljazeera, a regional broadcaster located in Doha, Qatar; Al Ordiniyah, a national broadcast station in Jordan; Kuwait TV, a national broadcast station based in Kuwait; Radio Sawa, a U.S. government-funded regional broadcaster; Saudi TV, a national television station based in Saudi Arabia; Syria TV, the national television station in Syria; and Yemen TV, a television station based in Yemen.</p><br>
<h3>Data</h3><br>
<p>The transcript files are in plain-text, tab-delimited format (TDF) with UTF-8 encoding, and the transcribed data totals 204,735 tokens. The transcripts were created with the LDC tool XTrans, which supports manual transcription and annotation of audio recordings. XTrans is available from the following link, <a href="https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/tools/xtrans/downloads">https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/tools/xtrans/downloads</a>.</p><br>
<p>The files in this corpus were transcribed by LDC staff and/or by transcription vendors under contract to LDC. Transcribers followed LDC's quick transcription guidelines (QTR) and quick rich transcription specification (QRTR) both of which are included in the documentation with this release. QTR transcription consists of quick (near-) verbatim, time-aligned transcripts plus speaker identification with minimal additional mark-up. It does not include sentence unit annotation. QRTR annotation adds structural information such as topic boundaries and manual sentence unit annotation to the core components of a quick transcript. Files with QTR as part of the filename were developed using QTR transcription. Files with QRTR in the filename indicate QRTR transcription.</p><br>
<h3>Samples</h3><br>
<p>Please view this <a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018T14.txt">transcript sample</a>.</p><br>
<h3>Updates</h3><br>
<p>None at this time.</p><br>
<h3>Acknowledgement</h3><br>
<p>This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, GALE Program Grant No. HR0011-06-1-0003. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.</p></br>
Portions © 2009 Abu Dhabi TV, © 2009 Al Arabiya, © 2008 Al Baghdadya, © 2008 Al Iraqiyah, © 2008 Aljazeera, © 2008 Al Ordiniyah, © 2008 Kuwait TV, © 2008 Saudi TV, © 2008 Syria TV, © 2008 Yemen TV, © 2008, 2009, 2018 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

<h3>简介</h3><br><p>GALE（全球自主语言利用，Global Autonomous Language Exploitation）项目第四阶段阿拉伯语广播新闻转写文本由语言数据联盟（Linguistic Data Consortium，LDC）开发，收录了2008年至2009年间，由LDC、突尼斯突尼斯市MediaNet及摩洛哥拉巴特市MTC在DARPA GALE项目第四阶段采集的约37小时阿拉伯语广播新闻语音转写文本。</p><br><p>配套音频数据以《GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast News Speech》数据集形式发布，对应链接为<a href="../../../LDC2018S05">LDC2018S05</a>。</p><br><p>本次转写的录音素材来自以下以时事为核心报道内容的新闻广播：总部位于阿拉伯联合酋长国阿布扎比的阿布扎比电视台（Abu Dhabi TV）；总部位于迪拜的阿拉伯电视台（Al Arabiya）；伊拉克广播机构巴格达迪亚电视台（Al Baghdadya）；由美国政府资助的区域广播机构自由电视台（Alhurra）；伊拉克国家电视台伊拉克亚电视台（Al Iraqiyah）；位于卡塔尔多哈的区域广播机构半岛电视台（Aljazeera）；约旦国家广播机构奥尔德尼亚电视台（Al Ordiniyah）；科威特国家广播机构科威特电视台（Kuwait TV）；由美国政府资助的区域广播机构萨瓦广播电台（Radio Sawa）；沙特阿拉伯国家电视台沙特电视台（Saudi TV）；叙利亚国家电视台叙利亚电视台（Syria TV）以及也门国家电视台也门电视台（Yemen TV）。</p><br><h3>数据</h3><br><p>转写文件采用纯文本制表符分隔格式（TDF），UTF-8编码，总转写Token数为204,735。本次转写使用LDC开发的XTrans工具完成，该工具支持音频录音的人工转写与标注。XTrans可通过以下链接获取：<a href="https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/tools/xtrans/downloads">https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/tools/xtrans/downloads</a>。</p><br><p>本语料库中的文件由LDC员工或与LDC签约的转写服务商完成转写。转写人员需遵循LDC的快速转写指南（QTR）与快速富转写规范（QRTR），两份文档均包含在本次发布的配套文档中。QTR转写指近乎逐字的快速时间对齐转写，附带说话人识别信息，仅含少量额外标记，不包含句子单元标注。QRTR标注则在快速转写的核心内容基础上，增加了主题边界、人工句子单元标注等结构信息。文件名中包含QTR的文件采用QTR转写方式生成，文件名中包含QRTR的文件则采用QRTR转写方式。</p><br><h3>示例</h3><br><p>请查看该<a href="desc/addenda/LDC2018T14.txt">转写示例</a>。</p><br><h3>更新情况</h3><br><p>暂无更新。</p><br><h3>致谢</h3><br><p>本研究部分由美国国防高级研究计划局（Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency，DARPA）GALE项目资助，资助编号为HR0011-06-1-0003。本出版物内容不一定代表美国政府的立场或政策，不应被视为获得官方背书。</p><br><p>部分内容 © 2009 阿布扎比电视台，© 2009 阿拉伯电视台，© 2008 巴格达迪亚电视台，© 2008 伊拉克亚电视台，© 2008 半岛电视台，© 2008 奥尔德尼亚电视台，© 2008 科威特电视台，© 2008 沙特电视台，© 2008 叙利亚电视台，© 2008 也门电视台，© 2008、2009、2018 宾夕法尼亚大学托管委员会</p>

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是GALE计划第四阶段的阿拉伯语广播新闻转录，包含约37小时（2008-2009年收集）的新闻语音转录，总词数约20.5万。数据来源于中东地区多个新闻机构，采用人工转录和标注，支持语言研究和自动处理应用。