Exhibit A
User License Agreement

Application by an Organization to Use the
Nihon Keizai Shimbun Text Research 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 Nihon Keizai Shimbun Text Research Collection and distributed by the LDC of the University of Pennsylvania, subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions.

1. Permitted Uses.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

1. Access to the texts by an individual person is to be controlled by that personŐs 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.
2. 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.

1. 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.
2. Violations of the copyright restrictions on the texts may result in legal liability.

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

For the organization:

Signature       ___________________________________ Date ______________________

Name            __________________________________ Title ______________________

Mail Address __________________________________________________________________

City ___________________ State _______ Zip Code _______  Country ______________