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If you are affiliated to a profit-making company, you can still obtain a temporally limited free research license if your company is involved in a research project funded by a public organization (e.g. a national or local government, or the European Commission). Such license allows for the use of WordNet Domains only within the framework and for the duration of the project. In all other cases, commercial licenses for evaluation purposes, for internal use and for re-selling are available. If you are interested in a research license for a profit-making company, or any kind of license for commercial purposes, please contact Manuela Speranza (mansperafbk.eu) at FBK.

It is important for us to have feedback on research involving WordNet Domains: we kindly ask you to provide us with information and comments about how WordNet Domains is used.

The distribution of WordNet Domains 3.2 includes WordNet Affect. WordNet Affect is an additional hierarchy of "affective domain labels", with which the synsets representing affective concepts are further annotated.

Publications or presentations containing research results obtained through the use of WordNet Affect should cite the following reference:

Carlo Strapparava and Alessandro Valitutti.
"WordNet-Affect: an affective extension ofWordNet".
In Proceedings ofthe 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, May 2004, pp. 1083-1086.

Publications or presentations containing research results obtained through the use of WordNet Domains should cite at least one of the following references:

Bernardo Magnini and Gabriela Cavaglià.
"Integrating Subject Field Codes into WordNet".
In Gavrilidou M., Crayannis G., Markantonatu S., Piperidis S. and Stainhaouer G. (Eds.) Proceedings of LREC-2000, Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Athens, Greece, 31 May - 2 June, 2000, pp. 1413-1418.

Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, Bernardo Magnini and Emanuele Pianta.
"Revising WordNet Domains Hierarchy: Semantics, Coverage, and Balancing".
In Proceedings of COLING 2004 Workshop on "Multilingual Linguistic Resources", Geneva, Switzerland, August 28, 2004, pp. 101-108.



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    Bernardo Magnini and Gabriela Cavaglià. Integrating Subject Field Codes into WordNet.
    In Gavrilidou M., Crayannis G., Markantonatu S., Piperidis S. and Stainhaouer G. (Eds.) Proceedings of LREC-2000, Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, pp. 1413-1418, Athens, Greece, 31 May - 2 June, 2000.

    Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, Bernardo Magnini and Emanuele Pianta.
    Revising WordNet Domains Hierarchy: Semantics, Coverage, and Balancing.
    In Proceedings of COLING 2004 Workshop on "Multilingual Linguistic Resources", Geneva, Switzerland, August 28, 2004, pp. 101-108.

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