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Licenses, copyright, & user agreements

In order to use any of the corpora or the software on AFS or the corpus computer you need to register (see below). By registering you agree to inform yourself of and observe all access and use restrictions for the corpora/software, and to not copy them or bigger chunks of them to non-Stanford machines. This also applies to corpora that can be freely downloaded on the web. We urge corpus users to be responsible about reporting the source of information obtained in corpus searches. At a minimum, the corpus creator should be identified and bibliographic information on the source document should be included with any citation. Ideally, the location in the source document (e.g. page number) should be noted as well.

A few corpora require an individual signed agreement or are subject to other special regulations. They are in special protected groups on AFS, and you need to present a signed agreement to get access to them. Be aware that by not following the above-mentioned rules you violate federal copyright law (in several countries depending on the corpus).

If you have any questions regarding licenses and user agreements, please contact the corpus TA

How to register

In order to register, please send an email to the corpus TA containing the following information (in that order).

The email must contain an indication that you will inform yourself of copyright restrictions and user agreements for any corpus you will use on AFS. You can copy the following sentences into you email:
Your SUNetID (not your student ID number, but your user name for the Stanford network)
Your first and last name
Access-type: only standard/also specific corpora (some corpora require a signed agreement)
Your affiliation
Sponsor (only if you are not within the linguistics department): which professor/which class do you need corpus-access for?
Please cc your adviser/sponsor when requesting access to our corpora (not necessary for members of the linguistics department).

Incomplete registration information will simply take longer (I email you, you email me, I email you again ... ;-). As mentioned above, we understand, that by registering you agree to the general user agreement that holds for all corpora at Stanford.

Corpora with special access restrictions

Some corpora at Stanford require a special signed agreement from you. Before the corpus TA can give you access to those corpora, you need to hand in the signed agreement to the corpus TA. Corpora that need a special signed agreement have special protection on AFS. Other corpora are subject to other kind of limitations - for example a maximum number of simultaneously registers users. In order to get access to any kind of corpus that is subject to special regulations contact the corpus TA and tell him which corpus you are interested in.

The restricted corpora, the special groups, and a link to their user license template are listed below

Corpus/Corpora collection Group-membership necessary Link to user agreement

CELEX 2 corpora-celex user agreement

PPCME2 corpora-ppcme2 limited to 5 simultaneous users; contact corpus TA; see also the PPCME2 website

TDT Pilot Study Corpus corpora-tdtpilot user agreement

TIPSTER Complete corpora-tipster user agreement

YCOE corpora-ycoe user agreement