hotchpotch/wikipedia-multilingual-ir-related-lead-pairs huggingface dataset:
Transcriber
Transcriber is an open-source software tool for the transcription and annotation of speech signals for linguistic research. It supports multiple hierarchical layers of segmentation, named entity annotation, speaker lists, topic lists, and overlapping speakers. Two views of the sound pressure waveform at different resolutions may be viewed simultaneously. Various character encodings, including Unicode, are supported.

Annotations from Transcriber may be exported in XML.  OASIS' Cover Pages publishes the open DTD used by Transcriber.

Transcriber is written in Tcl/Tk with the Snack audio library and is therefore available on most major platforms. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. Transcriber has been superseded by TranscriberAG.

Text segmentation
Text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics.  The term applies both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject of natural language processing. The problem is non-trivial, because while some written languages have explicit word boundary markers, such as the word spaces of written English and the distinctive initial, medial and final letter shapes of Arabic, such signals are sometimes ambiguous and not present in all written languages.

Compare speech segmentation, the process of dividing speech into linguistically meaningful portions.
Norbert Cyffer
Norbert Cyffer (16 May 1943 – 12 March 2025) was a German-Austrian linguist and Professor Emeritus of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Cyffer was primarily interested in African languages and linguistics, particularly the Saharan languages of the Sahelian region. His research areas include morphology, syntax, language contact, sociolinguistics, typology, and applied linguistics.

Saharan languages
The Saharan languages are a small family of languages across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Sudan to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria. Noted Saharan languages include Kanuri (9.5 million speakers, around Lake Chad in Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon), Daza (700,000 speakers, Chad), Teda (60,000 speakers, northern Chad), and Zaghawa (350,000 speakers, eastern Chad and Sudan). They have been classified as part of the hypothetical but controversial Nilo-Saharan family.

A comparative word list of the Saharan languages has been compiled by Václav Blažek (2007).
Bill Axselle
Ralph Lewis "Bill" Axselle Jr. (February 27, 1943 – January 24, 2019) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a member of the  Virginia House of Delegates from 1974 until 1990. After retiring from the legislature, he worked for nearly 30 years as a lobbyist for Williams Mullen.

Williams Mullen
Williams Mullen is a regionally based, full-service law firm with more than 240 attorneys in offices across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. The firm began in 1909 with the joining of attorneys Lewis Williams and James Mullen in a single office in Richmond, Virginia. Williams Mullen is the third largest firm in Virginia based on attorney headcount according to Virginia Business magazine.

Williams Mullen is a full-service corporate law firm with a wide range of practice areas, including Administrative and Regulatory Law, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Banking & Finance, Corporate, Data Protection & Cybersecurity, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Environment & Natural Resources, Government Relations, Intellectual Property, International Trade and Business, Labor, Employment & Immigration, Litigation, Real Estate, and Tax Law.
Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club (football)
Air Force Sports Club is a Sri Lankan professional football club based in Colombo, that competes in the country's top-tier competition Sri Lanka Super League. The team is under the patronage of the Sri Lanka Air Force.

Sri Lanka Super League
Sri Lanka Super League (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා සුපර් ලීග්; Tamil: இலங்கை சூப்பர் லீக்) is the men's professional top tier football league in Sri Lankan football league system. It is organised by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka. The 2021 Sri Lanka Super League was the first edition of the league.

The league comprises 10 clubs. Each season of the tournament generally runs from April to September. Each club plays the others twice (a double round-robin system), for a total of 90 games.

The competition formed as the Sri Lanka Super League in 2018 by the General Secretary of Football Federation of Sri Lanka Jaswar Umar Lebbe with the assistance and guidance of FIFA. It succeeds the Sri Lanka Champions League as the country's top tier football competition.
Matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis
The matrimonial nullity trial reforms of Pope Francis are the reforms of the Canon law of the Catholic Church governing such trials, made public on 8 September 2015. The reforms were effected by two separate apostolic letters from Pope Francis: the motu proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus amending the 1983 Code of Canon Law, and the motu proprio Mitis et misericors Iesus amending the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. This was in response to the bishops who, during the 2014 Synod on the Family, called for the simplification of the procedure whereby a canonically invalid marriage is declared null.

At the press conference announcing the reforms, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, emphasized that the church does not decree the "annulment" of a legally valid marriage, but rather declares the "nullity" of a legally invalid marriage.

Ecclesiastical letter
Ecclesiastical letters are publications or announcements of the organs of Roman Catholic ecclesiastical authority, e.g. the synods, but more particularly of pope and bishops, addressed to the faithful in the form of letters.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 1
Group 1 consisted of four of the 32 teams entered into the European zone: Cyprus, Denmark, Poland, and Portugal. These four teams competed on a home-and-away basis for one of the 8.5 spots in the final tournament allocated to the European zone. The spot would be assigned to the group's winner.

Cyprus national football team
The Cyprus national football team (Greek: Εθνική ομάδα ποδοσφαίρου της Κύπρου, romanized: Ethnikí omáda podosfaírou tis Kýprou), represents Cyprus in men's international football and is controlled by the Cyprus Football Association. The team's home ground is the AEK Arena in Larnaca.
Tomares romanovi
Tomares romanovi, or Romanoff's hairstreak, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, eastern Turkey, northern Iran, and Kopet Dagh mountains.

The wingspan is 28–30 mm. The species inhabits calcareous grasslands and arid mountain steppes, usually dominated by tragacanth locoweeds. It occupies elevation range from 1200 to 1600 m above sea level. The butterfly flies from late April to mid-June depending on latitude and elevation.

The larvae feed on the Astragalus species A. scharuhdensis and A. finitimus.

Calcareous grassland
Calcareous grassland (or alkaline grassland) is an ecosystem associated with thin basic soil, such as that on chalk and limestone downland.

There are large areas of calcareous grassland in northwestern Europe, particularly areas of southern England, such as Salisbury Plain and the North and South Downs.

The machair forms a different kind of calcareous grassland, where fertile low-lying plains are formed on ground that is calcium-rich due to shell sand (pulverised sea shells).
Toby Rollox
Toby Rollox (born 19 January 1913) was a West Indian cricket umpire and player. He stood in one Test match, West Indies vs. India, in 1953. He also made five first-class appearances for British Guiana.

Rollox was an all-rounder, a left-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler, who represented British Guiana sporadically between 1932 and 1951. He umpired 10 first-class matches, all at the Bourda ground in Georgetown, between 1947 and 1956.

Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, that is, not a  member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field according to the Laws of Cricket. Besides making decisions about legality of delivery, appeals for wickets and general conduct of the game in a legal manner, the umpire also keeps a record of the deliveries and announces the completion of an over.

The umpires in cricket are not to be confused with the referee who usually presides only over international matches and makes no decisions affecting the outcome of the game.
The Pent House
The Pent House is a Grade II listed building in Plympton, Devon, England. Standing at 20 Fore Street, Plympton's main street, it dates to the 17th century and is believed to have originally been merchants' houses or tenements of cottages. It is now one property.

It has rubble walls, except for the deeply projecting first floor, which is render and likely timber framed.

Although its interior has not been inspected by Historic England, it was evaluated by Time Team in 1999. In the episode, architectural historian Beric Morley discovered, in what would have been the back of the building in mediaeval times, a large timber lintel spanning a fireplace that was likely original to the 17th-century construction.  A dendochronology sampling dated the timber's felling date (but not the date it was inserted into the fireplace) to around 1290.

Lintel
A lintel  or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as  portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented/structural item. In the case of windows, the bottom span is referred to as a sill, but, unlike a lintel, does not serve to bear a load to ensure the integrity of the wall.
Modern-day lintels may be made using prestressed concrete and are also referred to as beams in beam-and-block slabs or as ribs in rib-and-block slabs. These prestressed concrete lintels and blocks can serve as components that are packed together and propped to form a suspended-floor concrete slab.

An arch functions as a curved lintel.
Debre Werq
Debre Werq (Amharic: ደብረ ወርቅ) is a small town in western Ethiopia. Located in the East Gojjam of the Amhara Region, it has a latitude and longitude of 6°52′N 35°31′E﻿ / ﻿6.867°N 35.517°E﻿ / 6.867; 35.517 with an elevation of 2489 meters above sea level. The settlement is known for its church and a hilltop monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, around which the community grew. It is the larger of two towns in Enarj Enawga woreda.

Amhara Region
The Amhara Region (Amharic: አማራ ክልል, romanized: Åmara Kilil), officially the Amhara National Regional State (Amharic: የአማራ ብሔራዊ ክልላዊ መንግሥት, romanized: yeämara bıħérawi kılılawi mengıct), is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara, Awi, Argobba, and Qemant people. Its capital is Bahir Dar which is the seat of the Regional Government of Amhara. Amhara is the site of the largest inland body of water in Ethiopia, Lake Tana (which is the source of the Blue Nile), Grand Renaissance Dam and Semien Mountains National Park (which includes Ras Dashan, the highest point in Ethiopia). Amhara is bordered by Sudan to the west and northwest and by these regions of Ethiopia: Tigray to the north, Afar to the east, Benishangul-Gumuz to southwest, and Oromia to the south. Towns and cities in Amhara include: Dessie, Gonder, Debre Birhan, Debre Tabor, Kombolcha, Weldiya, Debre Markos, Seqota, Kobo, and Metema. The Regions name is said to mean “noble” or “highland”.
Quentin Hull
Quentin Hull is an Australian sports journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He has covered a number of prestigious tennis tournaments including the Australian Open, the Davis Cup, and has been part of the BBC Radio team at Wimbledon. Hull's expertise also extends to calling the Australian Football League (AFL), rugby league, rugby union and cricket for ABC Grandstand Radio. Hull regularly commentates for ABC TV on events such as the Hopman Cup tennis, Super Series Lawn Bowls and Nine Ball.

Hull is based in Brisbane, Australia, but started his media career at The Daily Advertiser in his hometown of Wagga Wagga, in the New South Wales (NSW) Riverina.

Hopman Cup
The Hopman Cup is an international tennis tournament that plays mixed teams (one male and one female) on a country-by-country basis. It was first held in Perth, Western Australia each year from 1989 to 2019, played on indoor hardcourt, before being replaced on the calendar in 2020 by the now defunct ATP Cup, which was in turn replaced by the United Cup. The tournament was played in an eight-team format, with the exception for the years 1990-1995, with twelve teams competing. It returned in July 2023 in Nice, France and was played on outdoor clay, with six teams invited to participate. This continued in 2025, with the tournament being held in Bari, Italy on hard courts.
2025 Edmond Open – Doubles
Kayla Day and Jaimee Fourlis were the defending champions but chose not to participate.

Valeriya Strakhova and Anastasia Tikhonova won the title, after defeating Olivia Gadecki and Olivia Lincer 6–3, 6–7(2–7), [10–8] in the final.

Valeriya Strakhova
Valeriya Mykhaylivna Strakhova (Ukrainian: Валерія Михайлівна Страхова; born 9 June 1995) is a Ukrainian tennis player.
She has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 97, achieved on 23 September 2024. On 1 February 2016, she peaked at No. 231 in the WTA singles rankings. Strakhova has one WTA 125 doubles title as well as 14 singles and 48 doubles titles on the ITF circuit.
Dipierro
Dipierro, Di Pierro, di Pierro, or DiPierro is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include:

Gaetano Di Pierro (born 1948), Italian bishop

Luca Dipierro, Italian animator and illustrator

Nahuel di Pierro (born 1984), Argentine opera singer

Ray DiPierro (1926–2014), American football player

Serena Dipierro, Italian mathematician

Ray DiPierro
Ray DiPierro (1926–2014) was a guard in the National Football League.

DiPierro was born Ramon Frank DiPierro on August 22, 1926, in Toledo, Ohio. He played with the Green Bay Packers for two seasons. He played at the collegiate level at Ohio State University.

DiPierro died on July 20, 2014, in a long-term care facility in Perrysburg, Ohio, from the complications of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.  He was 87.
Mount Emily Lumber Company
The Mount Emily Lumber Company operated in La Grande, Oregon from 1920 until 1956.  After becoming a subsidiary of the Valsetz Lumber Company in 1955, the name was changed to Templeton Lumber Company. In 1960, the company was again sold and the name changed to Boise Cascade, La Grande. In 2018 the mill was sold and is currently operated by "Woodgrain"

Boise Cascade
Boise Cascade Company is an American manufacturer of wood products and wholesale distributor of building materials, headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

A public company with sales over $7.9 billion in 2021, it is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol BCC. Boise Cascade Wood Products manufactures plywood, engineered wood products and lumber; it supplies a broad line of wood products and building materials through Boise Cascade Building Materials Distribution's 38 distribution locations.

The company has approximately 6,000 employees across North America.

The company is neither affiliated with the Canadian paper company Cascades nor is there any connection to Boise, Inc. or Boise Paper, a division of Packaging Corporation of America.
Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church (Sariaya)
13°57′49″N 121°31′25″E﻿ / ﻿13.9636°N 121.5235°E﻿ / 13.9636; 121.5235

Saint Francis of Assisi Parish Church, also known as the Diocesan Shrine of Santo Cristo de Burgos and commonly known as Sariaya Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Sariaya, Quezon, Philippines. It is under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Lucena. Based on the historical marker of St. Francis of Assisi Church, the first structure was constructed in 1599. The second church was built in 1605 but was replaced by a third church in 1641. In 1703, the town was transferred to Lumangbayan but the earthquakes and floods of 1743 destroyed the church and the town caused the people to transfer to the present site. The present church was built in 1748 during the term of two Spanish friars, namely Fr. Martin de Talavera and Fr. Joaquin Alapont.

Baptistery
In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French baptisterie; Latin baptisterium; Greek βαπτιστήριον, 'bathing-place, baptistery', from βαπτίζειν, baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. The baptistery may be incorporated within the body of a church or cathedral, and provided with an altar as a chapel. In the early Church, the catechumens were instructed and the sacrament of baptism was administered in the baptistery.
Nick Pugliese
Nicholas John Pugliese (born September 18, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Italy national baseball team in the 2011 Baseball World Cup, the 2013 World Baseball Classic, and the 2019 European Baseball Championship.

Italy national baseball team
The Italy national baseball team (Italian: Nazionale di baseball dell'Italia) represents Italy in international baseball competitions. The national team was ranked 16th in the world as of 2022. Like the country's association football team and other national teams, the national baseball team is known as the Azzurri ("the Blues"), and wears traditional Savoy blue on its uniforms.

Team Italy will compete in the 2026 World Baseball Classic in March 2026.
Say It to Me
"Say It to Me" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their thirteenth studio album, Super (2016). It was released on 16 September 2016 as the album's fourth single. The single debuted at number one on the UK Physical Singles chart, and it reached number four on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart and number five on the Hot Singles Sales chart in the US. The song did not have a music video to accompany it, and was not included in the set list for their 2016 Super Tour.

Offer Nissim
Offer Nissim (Hebrew: עופר ניסים) is an Israeli DJ, remixer, and record producer. He produced the winning entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, "Diva", by Dana International. Besides his work with Dana International, Nissim has often collaborated with Maya Simantov on songs such as "For your Love", "Everybody Needs a Man", "Alone", and "First Time", and has produced official remixes for various artists, including Madonna and Cher.
Prince Consort Essay
The Prince Consort Essay was a surface printed printer's sample stamp created in 1851 as an example of the surface printed stamps that Henry Archer proposed to print and perforate under contract with the British government at a lower price than the current printing firm of Perkins Bacon. The Prince Consort stamps were provided by the artist Robert Edward Branston, from an engraving executed by Samuel William Reynolds.

Although commonly known as an essay, the stamp was not really an essay as it was never intended that a postage stamp be produced based on the design, nor was it an un-adopted design. It is more accurately described as a printer's sample stamp, or dummy stamp.

Samuel William Reynolds
Samuel William Reynolds (4 July 1773 – 13 August 1835) was an English engraver, painter and gardener who specialised in landscape painting and landscape architecture. Reynolds was a popular engraver in both Britain and France and there are over 400 examples of his work in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Low Brass Concerto
The Low Brass Concerto is a concerto by American composer Jennifer Higdon for four solos, low brass instruments, and orchestra. The work was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its renowned low brass section and co-commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.  It was composed in 2017 and was first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Muti on February 1, 2018.

Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto in 2010, Viola Concerto in 2018, and Harp Concerto in 2020. Elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019, she was a professor of composition at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1994 to 2021.
Wild Pride
Wild Pride (French: Fierté Indomptable Montréal) is an LGBTQ organisation in Montreal, Canada co-founded by Mariam Mannai, Emerson Rheault, Zev Saltiel, and Shannon Thompson. It was created in 2025 in response to grievances against the city's mainstream Pride festival, Fierté Montréal. Wild Pride positions itself as “a radical, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-corporate and uncompromising Pride.” The organisation has taken a stance against Zionism, Pinkwashing, and Rainbow capitalism, notably refusing to take corporate sponsorships. Wild Pride held events throughout the city of Montreal from July 30 to August 18, 2025.

Pinkwashing (LGBTQ)
Pinkwashing, also known as rainbow-washing, is the strategy of deploying messages that are superficially sympathetic towards the LGBTQ community for ends having little or nothing to do with LGBTQ equality or inclusion, including LGBTQ marketing.
Zelenohirske, Odesa Oblast
Zelenohirske (Ukrainian: Зеленогірське, Russian: Зеленогорское) is a rural settlement in Podilsk Raion of Odesa Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the Kodyma, a tributary of the Southern Buh. Zelenohirske hosts the administration of Zelenohirske settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 1,417 (2022 estimate)

Kodyma (river)
The Kodyma (Ukrainian: Кодима) is a right tributary of the Southern Bug river of Ukraine. Originating from springs in a boggy valley near the village of Budei, Podilsk Raion, Odesa Oblast, it flows within the Odesa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast and joins Southern Buh about 199 km away from its mouth, near Pervomaisk.

Settlements by the river include Balta, Holma, Bobryk Pershyi, and Kryve Ozero.
1968 French Covered Court Championships
The 1968 French Covered Court Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the last edition of the French Covered Court Championships before it was taken over by the Paris Open. It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, and was held from 12 February through 18 February 1968.

Milan Holeček and Nell Truman won the singles titles.

Bob Carmichael
Bob "Nails" Carmichael (4 July 1940 – 18 November 2003) was an Australian tennis player and coach.

As a player, Carmichael won one singles title and 12 doubles titles, and achieved a top-ten ranking in 1970. Partnering Allan Stone, he reached the doubles final of the 1975 Australian Open.

Following his retirement in 1979, Carmichael was a coach for Tennis Australia, and the Australian Institute of Sport. He coached top-ranking professionals Patrick Rafter, Lleyton Hewitt, Darren Cahill and Leander Paes.