OLAC Record oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2026T03

Metadata
Title:		LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack
Access Rights:		Licensing Instructions for Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining
Bibliographic Citation:		Tracey, Jennifer, et al. LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack LDC2026T03. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2026
Contributor:		Tracey, Jennifer
		Strassel, Stephanie
		Graff, David
		Wright, Jonathan
		Chen, Song
		Ryant, Neville
		Kulick, Seth
		Griffitt, Kira
		Delgado, Dana
		Arrigo, Michael
Date (W3CDTF):		2026
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2026-04-15
Description:		*Introduction* LORELEI Somali Representative Language Pack consists of Somali monolingual text, Somali-English parallel text, annotations, supplemental resources and related software tools developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium for the DARPA LORELEI program. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations like natural disasters or disease outbreaks. Linguistic resources for LORELEI include Representative Language Packs and Incident Language Packs for over two dozen low resource languages, comprising data, annotations, basic natural language processing tools, lexicons and grammatical resources. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage, while incident languages were selected to evaluate system performance on a language whose identity was disclosed at the start of the evaluation. *Data* Somali is spoken mainly in Somalia, where it is an official language. Data was collected in the following genres: discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. Both monolingual text collection and parallel text creation involved a combination of manual and automatic methods. Data volumes are as follows: * 13 million words of Somali monolingual text, 800,000 words of which were translated into English * 106,000 Somali words translated from English data Approximately 73,000 words were annotated for simple named entities; nearly 23,000 words were annotated for full entity (including nominals and pronouns); and over 10,000 words were covered by noun phrase chunking annotation. Lexical resources and software tools are also included in this release. The tools recreate original source data from the processed XML material, condition text data users download from Twitter/X, apply sentence segmentation to raw text, and support named entity tagging. Monolingual and parallel text are presented in XML with associated dtds. Annotation data is presented as tab delimited files or XML. All text is UTF-8 encoded. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation for this corpus and all LORELEI Representative Language and Incident Language Packs is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10). *Sponsorship* This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Contract No. HR0011-15-C-0123. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of DARPA. *Samples* Please view these samples: * English LTF XML * English PSM XML * Somali LTF XML * Somali PSM XML * Full Entity Annotation XML * Simple Entity Annotation XML * NP Chunking * Somali Lexicon (TSV) *Updates* No updates at this time.
Extent:		Corpus size: 524992 KB
Identifier:		LDC2026T03
		https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2026T03
		ISLRN: 176-800-274-552-8
		DOI: 10.35111/fpcm-c704
Language:		Somali
		English
Language (ISO639):		som
		eng
License:		LDC User Agreement for Non-Members: https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/license/ldc-non-members-agreement.pdf
Medium:		Distribution: Web Download
Publisher:		Linguistic Data Consortium
Publisher (URI):		https://www.ldc.upenn.edu
Relation (URI):		https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/docs/LDC2026T03
Rights Holder:		Portions © 2002-2007, 2009-2010 Agence France Presse, © 2000 American Broadcasting Company, © 2012-2016 Aaqbaar Online, © 2014-2015 BaligubadleMedia.com, © 2016 BBC, © 2000 Cable News Network, LP, LLLP, © 2015 Cadalool, © 2008 Central News Agency (Taiwan), © 2015-2016 Dayaxside, © 1989 Dow Jones & Company, Inc., © 2014-2016 HAATUF.NET, © 2014-2016 Jowhar somali news leader, © 2015 Kismaayonews.com, © 2005 Los Angeles Times - Washington Post News Service, Inc., © 2016 Mareeg Media, © 2013-2016 Markacadeey, © 2000 National Broadcasting Company, Inc., © 2003, 2015 New Press Media Co., Ltd., © 1999, 2005-2006, 2010 New York Times, © 2015 Ogadenworld, © 2000 Public Radio International, © 2011-2016 Radio Ergo, © 2015-2016 Radio Kulmiye, © 2014-2016 Radio Muqdisho, © 2008-2016 SBC, © 2015-2016 Radio Simba News, © 2008-2016 SomaliTalk.com, © 2003, 2005-2008, 2010 The Associated Press, © 2014-2016 Waaheen Media Group, © 2022 WardheerNews, © 2010, 2012-2016 Warfaafiye, © 2011-2013, 2016 www.hiiraan.com, © 2012-2016 www.rssing.com, © 2014-2016 Yoobsan News, © 2003, 2005-2008 Xinhua News Agency, © 2016, 2018, 2022, 2026 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Subject:		Somali language
Subject (ISO639):		som
Type (DCMI):		Software
		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		The LDC Corpus Catalog
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.ldc.upenn.edu
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2026T03
DateStamp:		2026-04-15
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Tracey, Jennifer; Strassel, Stephanie; Graff, David; Wright, Jonathan; Chen, Song; Ryant, Neville; Kulick, Seth; Griffitt, Kira; Delgado, Dana; Arrigo, Michael. 2026. Linguistic Data Consortium.
Terms:		area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_SO dcmi_Software dcmi_Text iso639_eng iso639_som olac_primary_text
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Somalia
Area:		Africa