Licensing and Distribution of Resources and Software PAN L10n Perspective

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Licensing and Distribution of Resources and
SoftwarePAN L10n Perspective

• Sarmad Hussain
• Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing
• National University of Computer and Emerging
  Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

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Introduction

• PAN L10n project is a collaboration of 11 country
  partners
• Each country is producing licensable material
• Linguistic Resources
• Software
• Aim of the project is to develop technology for
  the benefit of common person
• Funded through Canadian public funding

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Types of Linguistic Resources

• Corpora
• Monolingual Text
• Parallel Text
• Annotated Text POS, Word Break
• Spelling Error Corpora
• Speech Annotated with POS and Pronunciation
• Script Corpora for OCR
• Computational Lexica
• Corpus based word lists
• Dictionary based word lists
• Annotated lexica POS, Pronunciation, Meaning

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Types of Software/Applications

• Fonts
• Keyboards
• Word Segmenters
• Spelling Checkers
• Sorting Utilities
• Encoding Converters
• Corpus Cleaning Tools
• POS Taggers
• Computational Lexica
• OCRs
• TTSs

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Languages of Resources

• Pashto
• Bangla
• Dzongkha
• Tibetan
• Khmer
• Bahasa Indonesia
• Lao
• Mongolia
• Nepali
• Sinhala
• Tamil
• Urdu

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Licensing and Distribution

• For individual projects
• Rights owned by the organization producing the
  resource or software
• Copy must be available for non-commercial use
  publically, open source and free of charge
• Commercial rights to be exploited by the
  producing organization, as long as they do not
  conflict with Point 2. above

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Licensing and Distribution

• For joint projects
• Rights equally shared by the organizations
  producing the resource or software
• Copy must be available for non-commercial use
  publically, open source and free of charge
• Commercial rights to be exploited jointly by the
  producing organizations, as long as they do not
  conflict with Point 2. above

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Licensing and Distribution

• Licensing for Resources
• Creative Commons
• Licensing for Software
• GPL
• Free for s/w developed on MS platform

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Licensing and Distribution

• Though Phase 1 did not allow possibility of
  commercialization, Phase 2 allows for the
  possibility by the organization(s) producing the
  resource and software
• However licensing from original sources not
  cleared by partners
• Commercialization added to Phase 2 to explore
  sustainability of the research

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Licensing and Distribution

• Currently Resources are available at
  www.PANL10n.net website and project partners
• But PAN L10n is not a Resource Distribution
  Agency! How do we distribute in the longer-term?
• Resources
• IJCNLP?
• ALRN?
• LDC?
• Software???
• What would be the license?

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Thank You