1. Licensing and Distribution of Resources and Software PAN L10n Perspective Sarmad Hussain Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

2. 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

3. 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

4. Types of Software/Applications Fonts Keyboards Word Segmenters Spelling Checkers Sorting Utilities Encoding Converters Corpus Cleaning Tools POS Taggers Computational Lexica OCRs TTSs

5. Languages of Resources Pashto Bangla Dzongkha Tibetan Khmer Bahasa Indonesia Lao Mongolia Nepali Sinhala Tamil Urdu …

6. Licensing and Distribution For individual projects 1.Rights owned by the organization producing the resource or software 2.Copy must be available for non-commercial use publically, open source and free of charge 3.Commercial rights to be exploited by the producing organization, as long as they do not conflict with Point 2. above

7. Licensing and Distribution For joint projects 1.Rights equally shared by the organizations producing the resource or software 2.Copy must be available for non-commercial use publically, open source and free of charge 3.Commercial rights to be exploited jointly by the producing organizations, as long as they do not conflict with Point 2. above

8. Licensing and Distribution Licensing for Resources –Creative Commons Licensing for Software –GPL –Free for s/w developed on MS platform

9. 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

10. Licensing and Distribution Currently Resources are available at www.PANL10n.net website and project partners www.PANL10n.net 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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