EVALUATION PACKAGES
END-USER
AGREEMENT
(Agreement Ref. No. LC/ELDA/EVAL/2007/000/NAME)
This agreement
is made by and between:
".................................. ",
(hereinafter
called END-USER), having its
principal place of business at: ..........................
.........................................................................................................................................................................................................
AND
ELDA S.A., (hereinafter called DISTRIBUTOR), the distribution agency
commissioned by ELRA, having its principal place of business at: 55-57 rue
Brillat Savarin - 75013
registered at the Tribunal de commerce de Paris:
RCS
whereby it is agreed
as follows:
1. Evaluation
Packages, object of this
Agreement, for which DISTRIBUTOR obtained distribution rights from the rightful
holder, are described in Exhibit A.
2. The site of use of the Evaluation Packages is mentioned in Exhibit B.
3. Within this Agreement Distributor grants End-User, engaged in bona fide language engineering research,
the non-exclusive right to use the Evaluation
Packages, exclusively for the purposes of evaluating their Human Language
Technologies.
4. End-User is not permitted to reproduce the Evaluation Packages for commercial or
distribution purposes and to commercialise (or distribute for free) in any form
or by any means the Evaluation Packages or
any derivative product or services based on all or a substantial part of it.
Summaries, analyses and interpretations of the linguistic properties of the
information may be derived and published, provided it is not possible to
reconstruct the information from these summaries. Small excerpts of the
information may be displayed to others or published in a scientific or
technical context, solely for the purpose of describing the research and
development and related issues. Any such use shall not infringe on the rights
of any third party including, but limited to, the authors and publishers of the
excerpts.
5. Distributor grants End-User
the right to reproduce the Evaluation
Packages temporarily or permanently, to translate, adapt, arrange and
modify by any means the Evaluation
Packages, if one or all of these acts are necessary to access and make the
agreed use of the contents of the Evaluation
Packages. End-User is
permitted to make a copy of the Evaluation
Packages for purposes of archiving only.
6. Without prejudice to the other
provisions, the rights referred to herein shall be non transferable to any
other entity. The Evaluation Packages shall not be
transferred to or accessed from any other site.
7. End-User acquires no ownership, rights or title in
all or any parts of the Evaluation
Packages.
8. Distributor and Owners
accept no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the data or for
the consequences of their use. DISTRIBUTOR and Owners give no warranty for merchantibility and/or
fitness for a particular purpose of the LRs.
9. End-User shall give appropriate references to Distributor, as well as to the name and
reference of the Evaluation Packages in
scholarly literature when the Evaluation
Packages are mentioned. The following acknowledgement is required: "ELRA
catalogue (http://catalog.elra.info), EVALUATION PACKAGE NAME, catalogue reference: ELRA-XXXX."
10. End-User shall not use the name of Distributor in any publication in any
manner that would imply an endorsement of End-User
or any product or service offered by End-User.
11. END-USER has no right or
authority to incur, assume or create, in writing or otherwise, any warranty,
liability or other obligation of any kind, express or implied, in the name of
or on behalf of DISTRIBUTOR, it being intended that each party shall remain an
independent contractor responsible for its own actions.
12. Neither party shall be
responsible for damages caused by the other party's non-fulfillment of
provisions of this AGREEMENT.
13. Both parties exclude all
liability of whatsoever nature for direct, consequential or indirect loss or
damage suffered by the other.
14. END-USER agrees to pay DISTRIBUTOR a compensation. The mode of payment and schedule of payments are
incorporated in Exhibit C and form part of this AGREEMENT.
16. This Agreement is subject to, construed and
interpreted in accordance with the Law of France. Should it not be possible to
settle amicably differences of interpretation out of this Agreement, then the
case shall be brought before the regular courts of law for a decision. The "Tribunal
de commerce de Paris" shall be the only competent court.
The entire Agreement
is composed of the 16 articles herein together with Exhibits A, B, and C
thereafter.
In witness whereof, intending to be bound, the parties
hereto have executed this AGREEMENT by their duly authorized officers.
AUTHORISED BINDING
SIGNATURES:
________________ ________________
On behalf of On
behalf of
Name: Name: Khalid CHOUKRI
Title: Title:
Managing Director
Date: Date:
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Evaluation Packages
refer to:
Exhibit B SITE OF USE:
EXHIBIT C Compensation:
EXHIBIT D:
Guidelines constraining the dissemination and publication of evaluation results
are:
a) SCIENTIFIC
OR TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS: Scientific
or technical publications, including newsletters from universities or research
laboratories, should adhere to community standards for fairness and objectivity
and should accurately and clearly state the limitations of the testing
conditions and other factors which might influence scores. The experimental
nature of the tasks, data and evaluation procedures should also be stated. The
full evaluation packages should always be referenced.
b) ADVERTISEMENTS:
No advertisements using
the evaluation results can be placed in magazines, journals, newspapers, or
other publications.
c) PRESS
RELEASES: Press releases
about the evaluation results to organizations with national/international
coverage are also prohibited.
d) MARKETING
LITERATURE, LOCAL NEWSLETTERS: Although it is recognized that extensive evaluation discussions are not
appropriate in this type of literature, it is expected that any claims made on
the basis of evaluation results are accurate, that the evaluation measures used
to substantiate these claims are stated, and that a reference is made to the evaluation
packages. Where promotional material is subject to prepublication revision by
the media, the author should make every effort to see that the revision does
not cause a violation of the guidelines.
e) CROSS-SYSTEM
COMPARISONS: Cross-system
comparisons may not be made with other named teams listed in the evaluation
package documentation for individual tests, and may only be made when they are
supported by accepted methods of statistical significance testing. Comparisons
must be accompanied by the results of those tests and should reference the
publication of those tests. Informal, qualitative comparisons with recognized
baselines or benchmarks, and with general levels or trends in performance, must
be clearly stated to be such and thus open to statistical reassessment.