For use by current University of Toronto Faculty, Students, and Staff.
"Authorized Users" are full and part-time students, faculty and employees (including permanent, temporary, contract or visiting appointments) and researchers associated with Member regardless of the physical locations of such persons.
User agrees to use the LDC Databases received under this Agreement only for non-commercial linguistic education, research and technology development. In the event that User’s use of the LDC Databases results in the development of a commercial product, User must join LDC as a For-Profit Member and pay all applicable fees prior to release of said commercial product. User and User’s Research Group may include limited excerpts from the LDC Databases in articles, reports and other documents describing the results of User’s non-commercial linguistic education, research and technology development. Unless explicitly permitted herein, User shall not otherwise publish, retransmit, disclose, display, copy, reproduce or redistribute the LDC Databases to others outside of User’s Research Group. User shall have no right to copy, redistribute, transmit, publish or otherwise use the LDC Databases for any other purpose.
User shall give appropriate reference to the LDC Databases in scholarly publications whenever they are mentioned. The following citation formats are suggested:
Liberman, Mark, et al. Emotional Prosody Speech and Transcripts LDC2002S28. CD-ROM. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2002.
Huang, Shudong, David Graff and George Doddington. Multiple-Translation Chinese Corpus LDC2002T01. Web download file. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2002.
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