Linguistic Data Consortium Explained

Linguistic Data Consortium
Location City:	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Location Country:	United States

The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for linguistics research and development purposes. The University of Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution. The LDC was founded in 1992 with a grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and is partly supported by grant IRI-9528587 from the Information and Intelligent Systems division of the National Science Foundation.^[1] The director of LDC is Mark Liberman.^[2]

See also

• Corpus linguistics
• Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) – project coordinating over a dozen linguistics databases; hosted by the Max Planck Institute (Germany)
• Language Grid – a platform for language resources, operated by NPO Language Grid Association, primarily active in Asia
• Machine translation
• Natural language processing
• Speech technology

External links

• LDC Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: June 18, 2024. About LDC . Linguistic Data Consortium.
2. Web site: June 18, 2024. Staff . Linguistic Data Consortium.