[cc-licenses] Creative Commons licenses cause a problem
Nancy Ide
ide at cs.vassar.edu
Tue Jun 6 12:40:48 EDT 2006
On Jun 6, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Jonathon Blake wrote:
>
> If you haven't got the time/money to request permission, you do not
> have the time/money to verify that contributors are "native American
> English" speakers. [Which means that you do not have the time/money
> to do the proposed project.]
This is not a proposed project--it has been on-going for four years,
funded by the National Science Foundation and ANC Consortium members,
and we already have 22 million words out. While we have time and
money to prepare more corpus data, we do not have more time and money
to do much else at the moment, as we are currently operating on a
shoestring due to funding cuts in government funding for all but
military/intelligence research in language processing.
We do not verify that contributors (via the web--I am not talking
about authors of texts that were, for example, provided by
publishers, who ensure the authors are native AmE speakers) are
native American speakers--the point of the material on the web site
is for self-screening. Anyway, the demographic information they
provide when they contribute gives us the info we need to determine
it, if necessary.
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