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Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing Vol. 10, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 219-236 219 © The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing MATBN: A Mandarin Chinese Broadcast News Corpus ∗ + + ∗ Hsin-Min Wang , Berlin Chen , Jen-Wei Kuo and Shih-Sian Cheng Abstract The MATBN Mandarin Chinese broadcast news corpus contains a total of 198 hours of broadcast news from the Public Television Service Foundation (Taiwan) with corresponding transcripts. The primary purpose of this collection is to provide training and testing data for continuous speech recognition evaluation in the broadcast news domain. In this paper, we briefly introduce the speech corpus and report on some preliminary statistical analysis and speech recognition evaluation results. Keywords: broadcast news, corpus, speech recognition, Mandarin Chinese, transcription, annotation 1. Introduction Starting in 1995, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States (DARPA) directed its research program for continuous speech recognition to focus on automatic transcription of broadcast news [Stern 1997]. Since then, many research groups worldwide have paid attention to this challenging task and put much effort into collecting broadcast news corpora of various languages [Matsuoka et al. 1997, Federico et al. 2000, Graff 2002]. Though some Mandarin Chinese broadcast news corpora are avail