The 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation (LRE15) is part of an ongoing series of evaluations of language recognition technology. A detailed evaluation plan describing the evaluation task is now available:
2015 NIST LRE Evaluation Plan (updated October 8, 2015).
To participate in the evaluation please follow the process below:
- Sign up for the NIST LRE Evaluations platform.
- Confirm the account by following the link in the confirmation email.
- Sign in on the platform.
- Register for the 2015 NIST LRE Evaluation (indicates agreement with evaluation plan)
- Receive an email confirming registration.
- Download the datasets.
2015 marks the the first year that NIST has performed data licensing through a web platform. When completing the data license please follow the steps below using either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome:
- Sign in
- Click 2015 Language Recognition Evaluation
- Click Download datasets for 2015 Language Recognition Evaluation
- Click Get the datasetfile from the LDC
- Fill in the license information
- Click ok
- Click Download the license agreement
- Sign, date, and save the file [make sure you notice where it's saved to; you made need to save and then open in a pdf viewer to sign or print+sign+scan]
- Click pick a license to upload
- Click upload license
- Receive email from LDC for next steps