[Corpora-List] Commercial/competitive value of training data

[Seth Grimes]

Have others considered the competitive value of training data?

I'm referring to data that would be usable for commercial purposes, unlike 
data provided through the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) for research 
purposes.  The trade-off for a commercial organization is the opportunity 
to recapture the expense of annotating a data set against the risk of 
accelerating time to market, or promoting a sale at one's own expense, of 
a competing product or service.

My premise is that a software system's greatest value lies in what it can 
do with the training data rather than in the training data itself.  But 
what considerations do others see?

Thanks,

 					Seth



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Seth Grimes   Alta Plana Corp, analytical computing & data management
               Intelligent Enterprise magazine (CMP), Contributing Editor
grimes at altaplana.com       http://altaplana.com    +1 301-270-0795

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