The ____________________________________, an organization of approximately
____________people engaging in research and development of natural-language-processing,
information-retrieval or document-understanding systems, which is a part of:
- Corporation/Partnership/Legal Entity ____________________________
- Official mail address __________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
- Telephone _____________________________________
- Facsimile _____________________________________
- Email ______________________________________
apply(ies) to use the information designated as the Reuters
Information-Retrieval Text Research Collections
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.
- 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 not 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
the Individual
Application 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 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.
- The organization agrees to indemnify both NIST and
the copyright holder against any loss, damage or cost
which they incur as a result of any claim brought
against them by a third party relating to any use of
the information provided to the organization.
- The copyright holder or the organization may
terminate this license at will at any time given 30
days written notice, upon which you will be required
to delete all copies of the information stored in any
form whatsoever, and you will have no further rights
to use the information after the license has been
terminated.
Copyright
- The copyright holder retains
ownership and reserves 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.
By the Organization:
Signature_________________________________
Date ________________________________
Name (please print) ______________________________
Title ___________________________
Accepted by NIST:
Signature_________________________________
Date ________________________________
Name (please print) ______________________________
Title ___________________________
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