What is LDC Online?
LDC Online contains an indexed collection of Arabic, Chinese and English newswire text, millions of words of English telephone speech from the Switchboard and Fisher collections and the American English Spoken Lexicon, as well as the full text of the Brown corpus. With LDC Online, users can search textual data and play audio extracts for transcribed utterances on standard web browsers. The main goal of LDC Online is to provide rapid, flexible and convenient search and retrieval of LDC data for linguistic education, research and development. There are dozens of terabytes of data available at the LDC, and the amount is increasing every year. Very few research sites have adequate disk space to store this data and the necessary indices for searching. LDC Online does NOT aim to be a substitute for direct on-line access to news and media sources. The nature of the LDC’s agreements with data providers forbids this. Instead, the intended use of LDC Online is to facilitate linguistic education,
