User License Agreement for Mandarin Affective Speech LDC2007S09

Application by an Organization to use Mandarin Affective Speech LDC2007S09 distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)

____________________________________________________________ (“User”), an organization engaging in language education and research agrees to use the text data designated as Mandarin Affective Speech LDC2007S09 (the “Data”) and distributed by the LDC subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions.

1. Permitted and Prohibited Uses

1.1. The Data may only be used for linguistic education and research, including but not limited to information retrieval, document understanding, machine translation or speech recognition.

1.2. User shall not publish, retransmit, display, redistribute, reproduce or commercially exploit the Data in any form, except that User may include limited excerpts from the Data in articles, reports and other documents describing the results of User’s linguistic education and research.

2. Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

2.1. Portions of the Data are the property of Zhejiang University, Advance Computing and System Laboratory and are protected by applicable copyright law. In no event shall User publish, retransmit, display, redistribute, or otherwise reproduce any or all of the Data in any format to anyone, except as allowed in Section 1 of this agreement.

2.2. USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT MANDARIN AFFECTIVE SPEECH LDC2007S09 IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS AND THAT LDC AND ITS HOST INSTITUTION THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR CONFORMITY WITH WHATEVER DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED. IN NO EVENT SHALL LDC OR ITS HOST INSTITUTION BE LIABLE FOR SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR OTHER DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, CHARGES, CLAIMS, DEMANDS, FEES OR EXPENSES OF ANY NATURE OR KIND ARISING IN ANY WAY FROM THE FURNISHING OF, OR USER’S USE OF, MANDARIN AFFECTIVE SPEECH LDC2007S09.

User shall send a signed copy of this agreement by facsimile to LDC, fax number (+1) 215 573-2175. Alternately, User shall email an electronic version of the signed agreement to LDC at ldc@ldc.upenn.edu.

For _____________________________

Signature _____________________________ Date ________________

Name __________________________________ Title _________________

For LDC:

Christopher Cieri

Executive Director