LGPLLR : an open source license for NLP
Protecting linguistic resources is not a simple task, since, to many people, a lexicon is "just a word list that anyone can rebuild". This naive point of view denies the enormous work accomplished by linguists in order to select carefully information contained in those resources. Moreover, the collaborative aspect of research raises the problem of reusing and enriching existing resources with respect for their original authors. To answer these questions, we will present the LGPLLR license that as been designed to offer a LGPL protection level to linguistic data.
Sébastien Paumier is an associate professor in computer science at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. NLP specialist, he is the main author of the corpus processing free software Unitex. He has also written in association with Cédrick Fairon and Jean-René Klein the book "Le Langage SMS", dealing with a SMS collect project for scientific research and analysing the first results.
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