2006 CoNLL Evaluation Agreement

In the remainder of this document the term User refers to:

______________________________________ (Individual name)

and the term User's research group refers to:

_______________________________________ (University, Institute or Company name)

_______________________________________ (Specific department or area, if appropriate).

This letter describes the terms of an agreement between User, the CoNLL-X shared task organizers, the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics, Charles University, Prague, in which User will receive material as specified below.


Under this agreement, User will receive one or more files, named below under "Names of Corpora and/or Data Received," containing speech and/or text data. User agrees to use the material received under this evaluation only for purposes of the 2006 HLT/NAACL Workshops. After participation has ended, User agrees to delete the corpora and any files and software derived from it from any computer or media onto which it has been copied. User may retain data by agreeing to license the data as a nonmember or by joining the LDC. User further agrees not to disclose, copy or redistribute the material to others outside of the User's research group.


User agrees that neither the Linguistic Data Consortium, the University of Pennsylvania, nor Charles University warrant the accuracy, completeness, currentness, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the information. In no event will the Linguistic Data Consortium, the University of Pennsylvania, or Charles University be liable to any authorized user, or anyone else for any loss or injury caused in whole or in part by its negligence or contingencies beyond its control in procuring, compiling, interpreting, editing, writing, reporting or delivering the information, or any errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the information, regardless of how caused. In no event will the Linguistic Data Consortium, the University of Pennsylvania, or Charles University be liable to the organization, any authorized user or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by the organization or any authorized user in reliance upon any part of the information or for any consequential, direct, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.


Corpora and/or Data Received:


CoNNL-X shared task Arabic training and test set derived from the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank 1.0 (LDCT2004T23)


CoNNL-X shared task Czech training and test set derived from the Prague Dependency Treebank 1.0 (LDCT2001T10)


Organization: ___________________________________________

Name: ___________________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________________

Date: ___________________________________________________



For LDC:


Christopher Cieri
Executive Director