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Voice of the Shuttle What's everyone on about? Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English | Department of Linguistics - UC Santa Barbara Parts 1-4 of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE) are now available, for a total of approximately 249,000 words. The Santa Barbara Corpus includes transcriptions, audio, and timestamps which correlate transcription and audio at the level of individual intonation units. AccessDescriptionContents and Summaries CitationRecordingsAcknowledgementsContact Access All transcriptions in the Santa Barbara Corpus parts 1-4 can be dowloaded for free by clicking here. To access individual conversations and other discourse segments in the Santa Barbara Corpus, you may select the audio file and transcription you wish to download by consulting the Contents and Summaries. To download the audio files in WAV (recommended) or MP3 format, do the following: Select the transcription you want (e.g. Alternatively, you can do the following: Select a transcription (e.g. Part 1: LDC Catalog No. SBCSAE by John W. Description Contents & Summaries SBC001 Actual Blacksmithing SBC002 Lambada SBC006 Cuz

Large Network Dataset Collection Social networks Networks with ground-truth communities Communication networks Citation networks Collaboration networks Web graphs Product co-purchasing networks Internet peer-to-peer networks Road networks Autonomous systems graphs Signed networks Location-based online social networks Wikipedia networks, articles, and metadata Temporal networks Memetracker and Twitter Online Communities Online Reviews Network types Directed : directed network Undirected : undirected network Bipartite : bipartite network Multigraph : network has multiple edges between a pair of nodes Temporal : for each node/edge we know the time when it appeared in the network Labeled : network contains labels (weights, attributes) on nodes and/or edges Network statistics Citing SNAP We encourage you to cite our datasets if you have used them in your work.

Windows and Mirrors: Why We Need Diverse Books | Scholastic Book Fairs By Chad Everett, guest blogger I was an undergraduate student the first time it happened. One of my professors shared the following line from W.E.B. Dubois’ The Souls of Black Folk: “One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” About Chad: Chad Everett is a self-proclaimed literacy and technology geek. Did you know Birds taking the train! pattern_classification/dataset_collections.md at master · rasbt/pattern_classification Wartime Christmases can teach us how to 'muddle through' in the time of Covid | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Being as I am a child of divorce, I watched all the media discussion of Christmas and what was to be done about it with detached bemusement. I have come to view Christmas as something of a movable feast, which at times had been downright unconventional. I realised that it mattered hugely to other people, of course, but I’d be fine, I thought ­– relieved, even, not to be on a crammed train, the windows misting up with everyone’s virus-y breath. But I was a fool. When the gutpunch came, it was swift and unexpected: Ella Fitzgerald’s version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, chosen out of a desire for something festive, and jazzy, and cheerful. Written in 1943, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is, of course, a wartime song. I would be a monster, too, to dwell for too long on the fact that this may be a last Christmas for many, many more people, as a surge in travelling and socialising indoors could see a spike in cases.

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