DOI: 10.35111/7xtm-ys65
title: TIDES Extraction (ACE) 2003 Multilingual Training Data

description: <h3>Introduction</h3> <p> TIDES Extraction (ACE) 2003 Multilingual Training Data was produced by Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2004T09 and ISBN 1-58563-292-9. </p><p> This corpus was created and previously distributed by Linguistic Data Consortium as an e-corpus (catalog number LDC2003E18) to support the September 2003 TIDES Extraction (ACE) program evaluation. For information regarding the ACE program and ACE technology evaluations administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, please visit the <a href="http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/ace/index.htm" rel="nofollow"> NIST website</a>. For more information about ACE annotation and ongoing ACE corpus development, including annotation guidelines, task definitions, annotation tools and other project documentation, please visit LDC's <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Projects/ACE" rel="nofollow"> ACE Project page</a>. </p><p>The source material for this corpus consists of broadcast and newswire data drawn from October 2000 through the end of December 2000. The sources are listed below. </p><p>Newswire: </p><ul><li>Arabic <ul> <li>Agency France Press (AFA)</li> <li>Al Hayat (ALH)</li> <li>An-Nahar (ANN)</li> </ul> </li></ul><li> Chinese <ul> <li>Xinhua Newswire (XIN)</li> <li>Zaobao (ZBN)</li> </ul> </li> <li> English <ul> <li>New York Times Newswire Service (NYT)</li> <li>Associated Press Worldstream Service (APW)</li> </ul> </li> <p>Broadcast News: </p><ul> <li> Arabic <ul> <li> Voice of America, Arabic news programs (VAR)</li> <li>Nile TV (NTV)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Chinese <ul> <li>China National Radio (CNR)</li> <li>China Television System (CTS)</li> <li>Voice of America, Chinese news programs (VOM)</li> <li>China TV Program Agency (CTV)</li> <li>China Broadcasting System (CBS)</li> </ul> </li> <li> English <ul> <li>Cable News Network, "Headline News" (CNN)</li> <li>American Broadcasting Co., "World News Tonight" (ABC)</li> <li>Public Radio International, "The World" (PRI)</li> <li>Voice of America, English news programs (VOA)</li> <li>MSNBC, "The News With Brian Williams" (MNB)</li> <li>National Broadcasting Company, "Nightly News" (NBC)</li> </ul> </li> </ul><h3>Data</h3> <p>Annotations for this corpus were produced by Linguistic Data Consortium to support the following tasks broken down by language:</p><ul> <b>Arabic</b> <ul><li> Entity Detection and Tracking (EDT)</li></ul> <p> <b>Chinese</b> </p> <ul> <li>Entity Detection and Tracking (EDT)</li> <li> Relation Detection and Characterization (RDC)</li> </ul> <p> <b>English</b> </p> <ul> <li>Entity Detection and Tracking (EDT)</li> <li> Relation Detection and Characterization (RDC)</li> </ul> </ul><p>This publication includes both the source data files in .sgm format and the annotation files in ACE Pilot Format (APF), as well as the ACE DTD and supporting documentation. </p><p>The data files for each language are divided by source type (bnews, nwire). For Chinese, the annotation files (.apf.xml) are encoded in UTF8. We have included source files (.sgm) in both GB and UTF8 encoding. The following tables outline the word and file counts by language and source. </p><p><b>Arabic</b> </p><table width="200"> <tr> <td><b>Source</b></td> <td><b>Words</b></td> <td><b>Files</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>AFA</td> <td>11154</td> <td>66</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ALH</td> <td>7437</td> <td>20</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ANN</td> <td>7734</td> <td>20</td> </tr> <tr> <td>VAR</td> <td>8360</td> <td>57</td> </tr> <tr> <td>NTV</td> <td>7512</td> <td>43</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b></td> <td>42197</td> <td>206</td> </tr> </table><p><b>Chinese</b> </p><table width="200"> <tr> <td><b>Source</b></td> <td><b>Characters</b></td> <td><b>Files</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>XIN</td> <td>28157</td> <td>57</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ZBN</td> <td>25591</td> <td>42</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CNR</td> <td>4758</td> <td>21</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CTS</td> <td>7160</td> <td>22</td> </tr> <tr> <td>VOM</td> <td>18160</td> <td>42</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CTV</td> <td>6017</td> <td>18</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CBS</td> <td>8130</td> <td>19</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b></td> <td>97973</td> <td>221</td> </tr> </table><p><b>English</b> </p><table width="200"> <tr> <td><b>Source</b></td> <td><b>Words</b></td> <td><b>Files</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>NYT</td> <td>18983</td> <td>24</td> </tr> <tr> <td>APW</td> <td>38222</td> <td>81</td> </tr> <tr> <td>CNN</td> <td>5706</td> <td>54</td> </tr> <tr> <td>ABC</td> <td>4453</td> <td>15</td> </tr> <tr> <td>PRI</td> <td>9785</td> <td>27</td> </tr> <tr> <td>VOA</td> <td>4203</td> <td>28</td> </tr> <tr> <td>MNB</td> <td>4356</td> <td>8</td> </tr> <tr> <td>NBC</td> <td>4976</td> <td>15</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b></td> <td>90684</td> <td>252</td> </tr> </table><h3>Updates</h3> <p>There are no updates available at this time. </p> © 2000 American Broadcasting Corporation © 2000 Cable News Network, Inc. © 2000 Press Association, Inc. © 2000 New York Times © 2000 National Broadcasting Company, Inc. © 2000 Public Radio International © 2000 Agency France Press © 2000 Al Hayat © 2000 An-Nahar © 2000 Nile TV © 2000 Xinhua News © 2000 SPH AsiaOne Ltd. © 2000 China National Radio © 2000 China Television System © 2000 China TV Program Agency © 2000 China Broadcasting System </br>
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