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The 9th NTCIR Workshop
NTCIR-9 VisEx Evaluation Agreement Forms - Xinhua English Text

[NTCIR-9 User Agreement Forms]


# This page is available English only.

1. INTRODUCTION

"Xinhua English Text (1998-2001)"(English Dataset for Formal Run), or "LDC2006E106: NTCIR Opinion Annotation Pilot Task (Xinhua Text)", is available for the participants of the NTCIR-9 VisEx Task only for the purposes of the NTCIR Workshop.

The document data will be provided to you by the LDC via internet server for download.

Xinhua English Text (1998-2001) is also included in either of the following LDC corpora:
LDC2003T05: English Gigaword First Edition, which released on June 28, 2003.
LDC2005T12: English Gigaword Second Edition, which released on Jul 15, 2005.
LDC2007T07: English Gigaword Third Edition, which released on May 17, 2007.
LDC2009T13: English Gigaword Fourth Edition, which released on May 22, 2009

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

This is only a portion of the data for the NTCIR-9 VisEx Task. The rest of the data can be obtained directly from NTCIR after filling out and sending the two forms below.

2. HOW TO OBTAIN THE DATA

(1) Register to participate in the VisEx task at NTCIR-9
The LDC will grant the license to the registered participants.
(2) Download the LDC's "NTCIR-9 VisEX 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
ATTN: Ms Ilya Ahtaridis, Membership Coordinator
(5) 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
ATTN: Ms Ilya Ahtaridis, Membership Coordinator

3. SCOPE OF THE LICENSE

This license is valid until September 30, 2012 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 xie2ntc.pl.


[NTCIR-9 User Ugreement Forms]


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Last Modified:2011.01.26