ldc united nations corpus linguist 6 973 parallel query corpora list rapahel salkie asked questions un parallel corpus linguistic data consortium ldc queries appeared response earlier query dr salkie already gone privately rebecca finch certainly urge anyone experience using un corpus respond dr salkie well also placed sample 24 21 000 parallel documents english french spanish ftp ftp cis upenn edu pub ldc data _ samples un _ par _ sample tar z samples also accessible along quite bit ldc information www page url http www cis upenn edu ldc let add words ldc prices costs since dr salkie message expressed normal human annoyance asked part money case un corpus another yet published ldc parallel text corpus canadian hansard ldc membership fee university 2 000 fee everyone university get unlimited perpetual research license everything ldc publishes year membership thus join ninety current members corsortium get forthcoming hansard corpus also twenty databases published year amount university get un corpus 15 databases published 1994 whether particular database collection databases worth amount money course matter individual institutional judgement feel 2 000 roughly cost moderately configured pc international conference trip line even university researchers speaking great deal sympathy effort provide research resources free minimal cost involved several successful efforts bring databases years including acl dci cdrom eci disk celex disk others offered range 25 200 efforts rely heavily volunteer labor donated resources several cases also relied cash donations ldc however volunteer labor rarely available needed quantities course ldc supplied cash well existence ldc organization depends income somewhere money get memberships database sales crucial part picture without ldc would exist neither would either databases discussion highlight point history u n publication worth reviewing briefly decided try publish u n archives translation researchers wanted parallel texts concluding several months negotiations un representatives lawyers sides paid nj based computer consultant go un offices night make backups archives dismountable disk packs longobsolete wang word processor onto cartridge tapes required several months cost considerable sum use particular person authorized service rep un facility came six personmonths work ldc decode proprietary undocumented wang backup format equally proprietary undocumented wang character set typographical codes file structures reorganized entire archive translated wordperfect format published certain number cdrom form purposes un part agreement made access data translated documents iso8859 1 sgml markup including working dtd care worked correspondences among documents far trivial since un language entered separately coordination file names file dates even division documents files tens thousands documents per language work mainly done dave graff whose salary ldc pays likely recover costs acquisition production database sales memberships bought sake subsidize members costsharing government grants using income popular less expensive databases cover unrecovered costs less popular expensive ones case forthcoming hansard corpus dr salkie also mentioned cost acquisition publication similar u n material remarks subsidies apply whether particular database worth certain price matter individual taste matter simple arithmetic fees charged two cases unlikely ever cover costs incurred read far would like repeat standing offer existence since beginning ldc interested cdrom publication languagerelated database plausibly interest membership database reasonably close shape publish pay costs production using label design one worked give hundred copies see fit put item catalogue whatever price choose remit resulting income excess production costs copyright remain handle user license arrangements may necessary sending signed licenses published several databases basis planning publish several others although past experience chances making back production costs better even best wishes mark liberman myl unagi cis upenn edu 619 williams hall university pennsylvania phone 215898 0141 philadelphia pa 191046305 fax 215573 2175