Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Catalog

Open Access

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) Catalog

Open Access

LDC is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, which creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for research and development purposes. While this LDC Catalog is open to all, individual corpora are available upon request only to UofA faculty, students, and staff, and only through the UofA Library.

In order to access individual corpora, follow the steps below:

1. Look up the individual language corpora by typing ‘LDC’ and your language of interest in the Search the Library box on the UofA Libraries homepage.
2. When you find the result you desire click on the Request Form and fill it out with as many details as possible.
3. Once your request has been processed you will be provided with a link to download the data if it is available online. If available only in a physical format (CD, hard drive, etc.) you will be notified when it is ready for pickup.
4. IF YOU CANNOT FIND what you are looking for in the Library Catalogue the LDC Catalog is still available to provide advanced searching options.
   • Find the title you are looking for in LDC Catalog
   • Go to the the Request Form page
   • Fill out a Request Form with as much detail as possible
5. The LDC Request Form is monitored Monday through Friday during regular hours.

If you require additional assistance, please email: libldc@ualberta.ca