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All licenses and membership agreements should be sent to:

Ilya Ahtaridis
Membership Coordinator
Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street, Suite 810
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653 USA


LDC Membership Agreements

There are distinct license agreements for the four categories of LDC membership: "for-profit" (corporate or commercial), "not-for-profit" (academic or non-commercial), U.S. Government, and LDC Online (not-for-profit and government entities only). Please print and sign two copies of the apropriate license.

The membership agreement must be signed by someone who is legally empowered to commit your organization to observing the terms of the membership agreement.


LDC User Licenses

Due to restrictions imposed by copyright holders, the LDC must receive a signed user license before we can ship some of our corpora. These licenses must be signed by someone who is legally empowered to commit your organization to observing the terms of the user license.

Click here for a listing of the corpora available that require user licenses, along with links to the license forms.


Evaluation Agreements

The LDC provides corpora that support sponsored and scheduled benchmark tests. We recognize that some institutions would like to use LDC data only for the purpose of participating in such tests, and would only use the data during the scheduled test period. Since this sort of usage might not justify the cost of an LDC membership or a non-member purchase of the necessary corpora, we provide evaluation-only licenses for the particular corpora and time periods involved in benchmark tests.

Click here for a listing of the corpora available with evaluation-only licenses, and links to the agreement and license forms.


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