User License Agreement for N4 NATO Native and Non-Native Speech

Application by an Organization to Use the N4 NATO Native and Non-Native Speech corpus distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium

____________________________________________________________ (“User”), an organization engaging in language education and research agrees to use the speech and text data (the “Data”) designated as N4 NATO Native and Non-Native Speech and distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions.

1. Permitted 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 copy, redistribute, resell, transmit, publish or otherwise use the Data for any other purpose.

2. Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

2.1. The Data is the property of the University of Pennsylvania and is protected by copyright. In no event shall User publish, retransmit, 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 N4 NATO NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEECH 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, N4 NATO NATIVE AND NON-NATIVE SPEECH.

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