Application by an Organization to Use the European Language News Collection distributed by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) of the University of Pennsylvania.
The ____________________________________________________________, an organization engaging in human language technology research and development, agrees to use the textual data designated as the European Language News Corpus and distributed by the LDC of the University of Pennsylvania, subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions.
a. The texts may only be used for linguistic research and development, including but not limited to speech recognition, machine translation, natural language processing, document understanding, information retrieval, and foreign language teaching technology.
b. Summaries, analyses and interpretations of the linguistic properties of the text may be derived and published, provided it is not possible to reconstruct the information from these summaries.
c. Small excerpts may be displayed to others or published in a scientific or technical context, solely for the purpose of describing the research and development and related issues.
a. Access to the texts by an individual person is to be controlled by that person's organization. The organization may only grant access to people working under its control, i.e., its own members, consultants to the organization, or individuals providing service to the organization.
b. Individuals may be allowed access only after being informed of this license agreement and its provisions. The access is to be terminated when the conditions of the application no longer apply. The organization will retain a list of all persons ever granted access and make it available on request to the copyright holders and to the Linguistic Data Consortium.
a. None of the information providers of text in this collection or the Linguistic Data Consortium shall be liable in any way to any users of the text or to any persons who may receive the text or to any other person whatsoever, for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damage arising thereform or occasioned thereby.
b. In no event shall the Linguistic Data Consortium or any of the information providers of the text contained in this collection be liable for any direct consequential, punitive, special or any other damages arising in any way from the availability of the Service regardless of the form of action, whether contract or tort.
a. Except as specifically permitted, the copyright holders retain ownership and reserve all rights pertaining to the use or distribution of the texts. Government agencies acquire only "restricted rights" to this data as defined in Clause 252.,227-7013 of the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
b. Except as specifically permitted above and as necessary to use and maintain the integrity of the data on computers used by the organization, the display, reproduction, transmission, distribution or publication of the texts is prohibited.
c. Violations of the copyright restrictions on the texts may result in legal liability.
d. Copyright holders of the information contained in the European News Text Corpus are:
Associated Press Worldstream Copyright 1993-1995
Agence France Presse Copyright 1993-1995
LeMonde Copyright 1992-1993
Deutsche Presse Agentur Copyright 1995-1996
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