This release contains word trancription scores of ICSI word transcriptions and ISIP MS98 word transcriptions. There are 3 directories in this release: 1) icsi_v_truth -------------------------------------------------------------- ICSI transcriptions compared to updated ISIP transcriptions. Only the segments of updated ISIP data that appeared in the ICSI transcriptions were used to generate these scores. 2) old_isip_v_truth_quotes ------------------------------------------------------------- The December release of ISIP transcriptions compared to updated ISIP transcriptions. Only the segments of updated ISIP data that appeared in the ICSI transcriptions were used to generate these scores. 3) old_isip_v_truth_whole_ut -------------------------------------------------------------- The December 2000 release of ISIP transcriptions comapred to updated ISIP transcriptions. The entire utterances of the updated ISIP data were used to generate these scores. Each directory contains : o icsi_util.exe, This program was used to normalize ICSI and ISIP transcrptions. o prep_ref.pl, This script was used to replace the utterance IDs with unique IDs. This is necessary since more that one ICSI utterance maps to the same ISIP utterance. o the *.score files used as hyp and ref for the NIST scoring tool o the *.text files that are the source of the *.score files o the *.report file with the WER and utteranace alignments.