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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Introducing MELI: The Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus
%A Liu, Suyuan
%A Babel, Molly
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F liu-babel-2026-introducing
%X We introduce the Mandarin–English Language Interview (MELI) Corpus, an open-source resource of 29.8 hours of speech from 51 Mandarin–English bilingual speakers. MELI combines matched sessions in Mandarin and English with two speaking styles: read sentences and spontaneous interviews about language varieties, standardness, and learning experiences. Audio was recorded at 44.1 kHz (16-bit, stereo). Interviews were fully transcribed, force-aligned at word and phone levels, and anonymized. Descriptively, the Mandarin component totals ~14.7 hours (mean duration 17.3 minutes) and the English component ~15.1 hours (mean duration 17.8 minutes). We report token/type statistics for each language and document code-switching patterns (frequent in Mandarin sessions; more limited in English sessions). The corpus design supports within-/cross-speaker, within/cross-language acoustic comparison and links speech content to speakers’ stated language attitudes, enabling both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The MELI Corpus will be released with transcriptions, alignments, metadata, scans of labelled maps and documentation under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
%R 10.63317/3umiyc4sxwhk
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.468/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/3umiyc4sxwhk
%P 5896-5904

Markdown (Informal)

[Introducing MELI: The Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.468/) (Liu & Babel, LREC 2026)

• Introducing MELI: The Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus (Liu & Babel, LREC 2026)

ACL

• Suyuan Liu and Molly Babel. 2026. Introducing MELI: The Mandarin-English Language Interview Corpus. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 5896–5904, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.