Research-Usage Licence Agreement and order form for CoNLL-2009 Shared Task data for Spanish, Catalan, Czech and German (LDC2012T03)

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It is hereby agreed as follows:

1. Catalan and Spanish data

The Universitat de Barcelona (CLiC-UB) and the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) are the sole and exclusive owners of the AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons.

User in User's research group desires to obtain a copy of the AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons.

Grant of license

Within this agreement, CLiC-UB grants User's research group:

the non-exclusive unlimited right to use AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons only for research and demonstrative purposes;

without prejudice to the other provisions, the rights referred to herein shall be non-transferable to any other entity

User's research group acquires no ownership, rights or title in all or any parts of the Corpus.

Obligations of User's research group

User's research group researchers shall give appropriate references:

Aparicio, J., M. Taulé, M.A. Martí (2008) 'AnCora-Verb: A Lexical Resource for the Semantic Annotation of Corpora'. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakesh (Morocco); and

Taulé, M., M.A. Martí, M. Recasens (2008) 'Ancora: Multilevel Annotated Corpora for Catalan and Spanish'. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakesh (Morocco).

and CLiC-UB (http://clic.ub.edu) in scholarly literature when the AnCora Corpus is mentioned;

User's research group shall not, without the writing authorization of CLiC-UB, make available to the public all or a part of the contents of the AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons, by the distribution of copies, by renting, leasing or any other form of distribution; User's research group has no right or authority to incur, assume or create, in writing or otherwise, any warranty, liability or other obligation of any kind, express or implied, in the name of or on behalf of CLiC-UB, it being intended that each party shall remain an independent contractor responsible for its own actions

User's research group will notify the CLiC-UB at the end of the research activity for which the license is granted, in which case CLiC-UB may decide to end the agreement.

Liability

Neither party shall be responsible for damages caused by the other party's non-fulfilment of provisions of this AGREEMENT.

Both parties exclude all liability of whatsoever nature for consequential or indirect loss or damage suffered by the other or by third parties.

Budget and Payment

CLiC-UB grants User's research group the use licence of the AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons only for research and demonstrative purposes on free basis.

Duration

This Agreement is valid from the moment the AnCora(-Es/Ca) Multilevel Annotated Corpus and AnCora-Verb(-Es/Ca) lexicons are delivered, and will finish when either party desires to finish the Agreement.

When the Agreement duration expires, original copies must be returned and any other copies must be deleted.

Law

This Section 1 of this Agreement is subject to, construed and interpreted in accordance with the Law of Spain. Any legal procedures which may arise through compliance with this agreement shall be settled through civil jurisdiction. Before bringing any procedure against CLiC-UB, it is clearly understood that a prior claim shall be made by administrative channels, as is laid down by articles 120 and following of Common Administrative Procedure. The parties expressly waive any other jurisdiction to which they might be entitled and submit to the Courts of Barcelona for hearing and passing judgements on any matters which might arise through this agreement.

In witness whereof, and vouching for confirmation and acceptance of the content of this agreement, both parties sign the same on the date stated, in duplicate to one sole effect.

For the University of Barcelona:

Ma. Antonia Martí Antonín

head researcher of CLiC, Centre de Llenguatge i Computació, at the University of Barcelona with registered address at Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585, 08007 Barcelona, Spain

2. Czech data

Research-Usage License Agreement for the Prague Dependency Treebank, version 2.0, in CoNLL2099 Shared Task format, between the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranske nam. 25, CZ-11800 Praha 1, Czech Republic (<pdt@ufal.mff.cuni.cz>, http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz) (the Proprietor) and the User, as the representative of the User's Group, whereas

A.The Prague Dependency Treebank version 2.0 in CoNLL 2009 Shared Task format (PDT 2.0-C9ST) is a collection of textual data and documentation containing linguistic annotations and software tools for their processing as described in the documentation, developed at and by the Proprietor under the following support: Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic projects No. VS96151, LN00A063, 1P05ME752, MSM0021620838, and LC536, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic grants Nos. 405/96/0198, 405/96/K214 and 405/03/0913, research funds of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic, Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic No. 1ET101120503 and 1ET101120413, Grant Agency of the Charles University No. 489/04, 350/05, 352/05 and 375/05 and the U.S. NSF Grant #IIS9732388.

B.The Proprietor is the copyright holder of PDT 2.0-C9ST and is entitled to grant a license to the User.

C.The User is an academic, educational or research institution, or other organization, or an individual wishing to make use of PDT 2.0-C9ST for research and/or education purposes.

It is hereby agreed as follows:

1.This agreement is made on the date of submission and effective immediately.

2.The User is granted a non-exclusive license to use, modify, enlarge or enrich PDT 2.0-C9ST to extract information directly or indirectly in any form and volume, provided that PDT 2.0-C9ST itself or any derivative work is used only by the User her/himself or his/her immediate collaborators, employees, managers and/or her/his students from the same Institution for research purposes only, and provided she/he is continuously observing all the terms and conditions contained in this Agreement. If any part of PDT 2.0-C9ST contains its own license or an additional restriction, the more restrictive version and/or amendment of the license shall be in effect, unless specifically stated otherwise in such a part. In particular, all the documentation which is provided in either RTF, PDF or PostScript format should be considered a personal copy of the respective Author's reprint and handled as such.

3.The User shall not use PDT 2.0-C9ST itself or any derivative work (including but not limited to statistics obtained by using it or any derivative work thereof) based on it (however small the contribution of PDT 2.0-C9ST to such derivative work is) in whatever form for commercial purposes of any kind, nor for a deployment in any routinely used application, regardless whether it is of commercial nature or not.

4.The User shall include the following notice in all publications or publicly available materials, regardless of their form (printed, electronic, or other), describing work which uses PDT 2.0-C9ST: "The Prague Dependency Treebank, version 2.0 has been developed by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/." In the case of printed materials, such as papers, journal articles, etc., one publication most suitable for reference with regard to User's work should be included from the list in the PDT 2.0-C9ST documentation; in the case of electronic publications on the Internet, the reference to the aforementioned web page should be included as a web link. Due to Proprietor's obligations with regard to the text copyright holders, text examples and citations from PDT 2.0-C9ST or any derivative work (regardless whether they include any annotations or not) are limited to 200 words per publication or series of publications on the same topic (whether printed, electronic, or in any other form).

5.The User agrees not to re-distribute or otherwise make publicly available PDT 2.0-C9ST, or any derivative work based on it as described in paragraph 3, to a third party without a prior written permission of the Proprietor, with the exception of examples and citations as described in paragraph 4.

6.The User undertakes to adopt any security measures needed to protect the Proprietors' copyright in PDT 2.0-C9ST and undertakes to take all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized use is made of PDT 2.0-C9ST and of any copies, derivative works or extracts thereof.

7.Any usage of PDT 2.0-C9ST which does not conform to the specification set forth in the 3rd paragraph of this Agreement (such as, e.g., commercial usage of PDT 2.0-C9ST) is subject of separate negotiations and a written contract between the User and the Proprietor and/or other parties. The Proprietor is in general not obliged to enter and/or conclude such negotiations.

8.PDT 2.0-C9ST is provided as is. Therefore the Proprietor does not warrant the usefulness of PDT 2.0-C9ST for any purpose, regardless of formulations which can be found at some places in the accompanying documentation stating the intended purpose and use of PDT 2.0-C9ST.

9.If the User reports to the Proprietor any discovered errors, inconsistencies or suggested corrections or improvements to PDT 2.0-C9ST, the Proprietor undertake: (a) to maintain these comments in confidence and to use them only for the purposes of improving, modifying and/or maintaining PDT 2.0-C9ST, (b) not to disclose the comments except in confidence to those of their employees or directors who need to know the same for the aforesaid purpose.

10.Should the Users by themselves or anyone acting on their behalf fail to comply with any of the conditions in this agreement (save with the written consent of the Proprietor) this agreement shall terminate immediately and PDT 2.0-C9ST, its copies and derivative works based on it shall be destroyed at the User's site and at all sites under his control. Such termination shall be without prejudice to any claim which the Proprietor may have either for monies due and/or damages and/or otherwise.

11.Failure by the Proprietor to exercise or enforce any rights in this agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any such right nor operate so as to bar the exercise or enforcement thereof at any time or times thereafter.

12.This agreement terminates if (a) the User destroys all copies of PDT 2.0-C9ST or any derivative work thereof, (b) the User or its Institution ceases to exist, unless all its obligations are transferred to a new entity, which is then considered to be bound by this Agreement. The User or its successor shall inform the Proprietor about any such transfer or succession; failure to do so will terminate this Agreement after one month after such transfer or succession. (c) the Proprietor ceases to exist without a legal successor.

13.The Proprietor shall keep the information about the User provided when submitting this Agreement in confidentiality and will not disclose it to other parties, except in a summary form such that individual users will not be identified, unless they specifically agree to such a disclosure in writing.

14.This part of the license agreement is governed by the laws of the Czech Republic and all disputes concerning this agreement will be resolved by its jurisdiction.

3. German data

The German data is licensed under the conditions described in

http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/forschung/ressourcen/korpora/TIGERCorpus/license/htmlicense.html

and

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/salsa/corpus/doc/license.html

which are incorporated herein by reference.


Note: This is a registration & order form. After you have accepted the licence agreement, an order request will be sent to the Linguistic Data Consortium.