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1. INTRODUCTION

"New York Times Text (2002-2005)"(English Dataset for Formal Run) or "LDC2009E74 NTCIR-8 New York Times Data 2002-2005", is available for the participants of the NTCIR-8 GeoTime Task only for the purposes of the NTCIR Workshop.

The document data will be provided to you by sending a DVD-ROM from the LDC. If you will obtain these documents from the LDC, you will be asked to pay $US50 to cover some portion of costs in preparing and shipping the data.

New York Times Text (2002-2005) is also included in the following LDC corpus:
LDC2007T07: English Gigaword Third Edition, which released on May 17, 2007.

If you have the above one, you do not need to newly obtain the corpus.

This is only a portion of the data for the NTCIR-8 GeoTime Task. The rest of the data can be obtained directly from NTCIR after filling out and sending the two forms below.

NTCIR-8 GeoTime Agreement: English PDF, Japanese PDF

2. HOW TO OBTAIN THE DATA

A. Sign the License Agreement:
(1) Register to participate in the GeoTime task at NTCIR-8
The LDC will grant the license to the registered participants.

(2) Download the LDC's "NTCIR-8 GeoTime Evaluation Agreement"

(3) Complete and sign the agreement.

(4) Fax or scan and email a signed agreement to the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC).

Fax:+1(215)573-2175
Email: ldc@ldc.upenn.edu
ATTN: Ms Ilya Ahtaridis, Membership Coordinator

B. Making payment

Payment can be made in one of three ways:

1. with a check from a bank with branches in the United States
For credit to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

2. with a wire to:

Wachovia Bank NA
123 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19109

ABA NO. 031201467

Account No. 2000018692644

SWIFT CODE: PNBPUS33PHL

For credit to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Attn:Ms. Ilya Ahtaridis +1(215) 573 1275

3. with Visa or MasterCard
Please provide the following:

1. Type of credit card
2. Credit card number
3. Expiration date
4. Credit card billing address

Please mail checks to the LDC, but note that they should credit 'the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania'.

For security purposes, please do not provide credit card details by email. It is recommended that you call the LDC at +1(215) 573-1275 or use our VISA/MasterCard Information Form.

C. The document data will be provided to you by the LDC.

Contacting LDC:

Linguistic Data Consortium
3600 Market Street
Suite 810
Philadelphia, PA, 19104-2653, USA

General Office Telephone:+1(215)898-0464
　　　　Membership Office Telephone: +1(215) 573-1275
Fax:+1(215)573-2175
Email: ldc@ldc.upenn.edu
ATTN: Ms Ilya Ahtaridis, Membership Coordinator

3. SCOPE OF THE LICENSE

This license is valid until April 30, 2011 only, at which time User agrees to delete the Data and any files and software derived from it from any computer or media onto which it has been copied and to return all media to the LDC. User may keep the data by agreeing to pay the LDC the non-member fee and signing the generic LDC nonmember user agreement.

For the detailed conditions, please consult the agreement.

4. CONVERSION OF LDC DOCUMENT DATA INTO NTCIR FORMAT

The documents in the obtained Corpus shall be converted into the NTCIR standard document format by the script nyt2ntc.pl.

The 8th NTCIR Workshop NTCIR-8 GeoTime Evaluation Agreement Forms - New York Times Text

1. INTRODUCTION

2. HOW TO OBTAIN THE DATA

3. SCOPE OF THE LICENSE

4. CONVERSION OF LDC DOCUMENT DATA INTO NTCIR FORMAT

The 8th NTCIR Workshop
NTCIR-8 GeoTime Evaluation Agreement Forms - New York Times Text