I, _____________________________________,
a person engaging in research and development of natural-language-processing,
information-retrieval or document-understanding systems, and a member of,
consultant to, or person providing service to the following organisation:
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Organisation: _________________________________________
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Official mail address:
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Telephone: ___________________________________________
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Facsimile: __________________________________________
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Electronic mail: _______________________________________
apply to use the CLEF Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Test Research Collection and specifically the
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Dutch: _________
- French: _________
- German: _________
- Italian: _________
- Spanish _________
- GIRT dataset _________
(clearly mark the data set(s) you intend to use), from now on referred to as the
information.
I understand that authorisation to use the above specified information indicates
my
intention to participate in the CLEF system evaluation activity for
- multilingual _________
- bilingual _________
- monolingual _________
- domain-specific system testing _________
(clearly mark which task(s) you intend to perform)
and this participation is subject
to the following understandings, terms and conditions.
These understandings, terms and conditions apply equally to all or part of the information.
Permitted Uses
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The information may only be used for research
and development of natural-language-processing, information-retrieval or
document- understanding systems.
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Summaries, analyses and interpretations of
the linguistic properties of the information may be derived and published,
provided it is not possible to reconstruct the information from these summaries.
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Small excerpts of the information 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.
Any such use shall not infringe on the rights of any third party including,
but limited to, the authors and publishers of the excerpts.
Access to the Information by Individuals
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Access to the information by an individual
person is to be controlled by that person's organisation. The organisation
may only grant access to people working under its control, i.e., its own
members, consultants to the organisation, or individuals providing service
to the organisation.
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Individuals may be allowed access to the information
only after completion and submission of this form. The access is to be
terminated when the conditions of the application no longer apply. The
organisation will retain the applications of all persons ever granted access
to the information and make them available upon request to any of the copyright
holders and to the institution or agency holding this completed application.
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The organisation will maintain and post a
list of people with current and recently-terminated access to the information.
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An individual with access may only display
the information to or share the information with persons whom his organisation
lists as having access to the information.
Copyright
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The copyright holders retain ownership and
reserve all rights pertaining to the use and distribution of the information.
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Except as specifically permitted above and
as necessary to use and maintain the integrity of the information on computers
used by the organisation, the display, reproduction, transmission, distribution
or publication of the information is prohibited. Violations of the copyright
restrictions on the information may result in legal liability.
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Copyright holders of the information contained
in the CLEF Cross- Language Information
Retrieval Text Research Collection
include:
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French dataset: Le Monde 1994 - Copyright LE MONDE S.A., distribution rights
ELDA
(European Language Resources Distribution Agency).
- German dataset: Frankfurter Rundschau, 1994-1995 - Druck- und Verlagshaus
Frankfurt
am Main, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
Der Spiegel, 1994-1995 -
SPIEGEL Verlag, Hamburg (Germany).
- Italian dataset: La Stampa 1994 - Copyright La Stampa, distribution rights
Hypersystems Srl, Torino.
- Spanish dataset: Spanish news agency data - Copyright Agencia EFE S.A.
- Dutch dataset: NRC Handelsblad - 1994, 1995; Algemeen Dagblad - 1994, 1995 -
Copyright PCM Landelijke dagbladen/Het Parool.
- GIRT database: InformationsZentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn (Germany).
- SDA collection: French, German, Italian Swiss news agency data - Copyright Schweizerische Depeschenagentur, Switzerland.
By the Individual:
Signature: ________________________________________________
Date:
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Name (please print): _______________________________________
Title:
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Accepted by the organisation:
Signature: ________________________________________________
Date:
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Name (please print): _______________________________________
Title:
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Institution/Agency: _________________________________________
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