CSLP CORPORA AND LANGUAGE RESOURCES

This chapter discusses the fundamental issues related to the development of language resources for Chinese spoken language processing (CSLP). Chinese dialects, transcription systems, and Chinese character sets are described. The general procedure for speech corpus production is introduced, along with the dialect-specific problems related to CSLP corpora. Some activities in the development of CSLP corpora are also presented here. Finally, available language resources for CSLP as well as their related websites are listed.