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 organization:
- Organization
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- Corporation/Partnership/Legal Entity
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- Official mail address
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- _________________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
- Telephone _____________________________________
- Facsimile _____________________________________
- Electronic mail ________________________________
apply(ies) to use the information designated as the TREC KBA
Information-Retrieval Text Research Collection
subject to the following understandings, terms and conditions. These
understandings, terms and conditions
apply equally to all or to part of the information.
Permitted Uses
- The information may only be used for research and
development of natural-language-processing,
information-retrieval or document-understanding systems.
Portions of the data maybe copyrighted, and may also
have commercial value as data, so you must be careful to
use it only for research purposes rather than for its
informational uses.
- 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.
- 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
- Access to the information by an individual person is
to be controlled by that person's organization. The
organization may only grant access to people working
under its control, i.e., its own members, consultants to
the organization, or individuals providing service to
the organization.
- 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 organization 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.
- The organization will maintain and post a list of
people with current and recently-terminated access to
the information.
- An individual with access may only display the information
to or share the information with persons whom
his organization lists as having access to the information.
Copyright
- The copyright holders retain ownership and reserve all
rights pertaining to the use and distribution of the
information.
- Except as specifically permitted above and as
necessary to use and maintain the integrity of the
information on computers used by the organization; 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.
- Copyright holders of the information contained in the
Information-Retrieval Text Research Collection include a
wide variety of online publishers as indicated in the
content.
By the Individual:
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Date
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Title ___________________________
Accepted by the organization:
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Date
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Institution/Agency
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