[Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora - proposal

[Ken Litkowski]

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest
Group on the Lexicon (SIGLEX, http://www.siglex.org/) has created a
structured list of topics and created "CORPORA Archive Links"
(http://www.clres.com/corparchive.html) which provides an entree into
this mailing list.  The links associated with this structured list is
created semi-automatically in about 10 minutes and is updated with some
(ir)regularity.  The latest revision to the structure and to the mailing
list messages is June 13, 2003 and covers messages going back to the
beginning of 1997 (almost 1500 messages as of that date).  Note
particularly that it is very easy to create new (sub)categories and
assign messages to multiple categories.  Any suggestions or comments are
very highly welcome.

	Ken Litkowski
	SIGLEX Webmaster

Elisabeth Burr wrote:

> Dear Corpus colleagues,
>
> I think it would be time to find a way of archiving the discussion on
> this list in a structured (threads by topic, date, name etc) way and
> make this archive accessible on the Web. Models for such a resource
> could be the linguist list:
> http://linguistlist.org/
> and
> Humanist Discussion Group:
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
>
> The web pages could then be integrated with all sorts of information
> which is useful to us like the one about legal aspects.
>
> Best regards
> Elisabeth
>
> At 11:17 25.06.2003 +0100, Gabriela.Saldanha at dcu.ie wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't this statemet be 'published' in one of the many websites
>> that people keep publicising in this list? Together with signatures?
>>
>>
>> Gaby Saldanha
>>
>>
>> >-- Original Message --
>> >Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:49:03 +0700
>> >To: corpora at hd.uib.no
>> >From: Doug Cooper <doug at th.net>
>> >Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Legal aspects of compiling corpora
>> >
>> >
>> >Dear Corporeans:
>> >
>> >For the record, here is my attempt at drafting a basic statement
>> >of professional practice in regard to using text corpora.  It
>> >describes a well-understood (and I hope easily defended)
>> >subset of corpus applications, in service of setting up -- but
>> >not asserting the conclusion of -- the following syllogism:
>> >
>> > - some research use of copyrighted texts is protected by law;
>> > - here are some ways we use copyrighted texts for research;
>> > - perhaps our research uses are also protected.
>>
>>
>> Gaby Saldanha
>> SALIS - DCU
>> Te.: 353 1 700 8217
>
>
> HD Dr. Elisabeth Burr
> Romanistik
> Institut für Fremdsprachliche Philologien
> Fakultät 2: Geisteswissenschaften
> Universität Duisburg-Essen
> Standort Duisburg
> Geibelstr. 41
> 47048 Duisburg
>
> http://www.uni-duisburg.de/Fak2/FremdPhil/Romanistik/Personal/Burr/
>
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