Intellectual property

The Modal Corpus is freely accessible and modifiable, under the terms of the licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International  licence.

When using data drawn from the Modal Corpus, please cite:

1. (2016). Modal – Modèles de l’annotation de la Modalité à l’Oral [Corpus]. ORTOLANG (Open Resources and TOols for LANGuage) – www.ortolang.fr, https://hdl.handle.net/11403/modal.

as well as

2. the following publication:

Ghia, E., L. Kloppenburg, M. Nissim, P. Pietrandrea, V. Cervoni (2016) A Construction-centered approach to the annotation of modality. Proceedings of the 12thISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation. Portoroz, 29 may 2016.

Since the data are drawn from pre-existing sources, in order to ensure the traceability of these sources, please:

  1. include the following identifiers when using or modifying data drawn from the Modal Corpus:
MODAL- IT01,LIPRC10; MODAL- EN01,SBC039; MODAL-FR01- ESLO2SOUTENANCE

MODAL- IT02,LIPRA7; MODAL- EN02,SBC008; MODAL- FR02a1,ESLO24H_apresmiditravail; 
MODAL- FR02a2,ESLO24H_apresmiditravail; MODAL- FR02b,OTG1AP0316; MODAL- FR02c,UBS028

MODAL- IT03,LIPRE11; MODAL- EN03,SBC053; MODAL- FR03,ESLO2MEDIA13

MODAL- IT04,LIPRA1; MODAL- EN04,SBC007; MODAL- FR04,ESLO224DEBUTJOURNEE

MODAL- IT05,LIPFA1; MODAL- EN05,SBC019; MODAL- FR05,ESLO2REP0102

MODAL- IT06,LIPRA3; MODAL- EN06,SBC002; MODAL- FR06,ESLO2REP22

The identifiers above are annotated as attributes of the modal constructions: they can be easily recovered by browsing or searching the corpus through the Analec tool.

2. include the reference to the following webpages when using data drawn from one of the source corpora:

For data drawn from the VoLip Corpus (ITLIP)  
http://www.parlaritaliano.it/index.php/it/volip 

For data drawn from the Santa Barbara Corpus (ENSBC)
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/research/santa-barbara-corpus

For data drawn from the ESLO Corpus (FRESLO)
http://eslo.huma-num.fr

For data drawn from the Accueil UBS (FRUBS) 
http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~antoine/parole_publique/Accueil_UBS/index.html

For data drawn from the OTG Corpus (FROTG)
http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~antoine/parole_publique/OTG/index.html