Reuters Corpus Volume 2 (RCV2)

Reuters Corpus, Volume 2, Multilingual Corpus, 1996-08-20 to 1997-08-19 (Release date 2005-05-31, Format version 1, correction level 0)

This is distributed on one CD and contains over 487,000 Reuters News stories in thirteen languages (Dutch, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish). The stories are NOT PARALLEL, but are written by local reporters in each language. These stories are contemporaneous with RCV1, but some languages do not cover the entire time period.

The stories in the Reuters Corpus are under the copyright of Reuters Ltd and/or Thompson Reuters, and their use is governed by the following agreements:

Organizational agreement

Agreement

This agreement must be signed by the person responsible for the data at your organization, and sent to NIST.

Individual agreement

Agreement

This agreement must be signed by all researchers using the Reuters Corpus at your organization, and kept on file at your organization.

Getting the corpus

• Download and print the Organizational and Individual agreement forms above.

• Send the Organizational form to NIST by one of the methods listed below:

• Send a scanned pdf file

• Complete the Reuters Organizational form and send a pdf file of the form to: reuters-request@nist.gov

• In your email include the following:

• Subject: request for Reuters corpus

• In the body of message include: your name, your complete postal address, and if you are requesting RCV1, RCV2, TRC2 or all three.

• (do not include other correspondence in this message)

Complete and keep the individual agreement form on file at your organization.

Subject to our approval, you will receive (in the case of RCV1 and 2) the corpus CDs by mail, and/or (in the case of TRC2) a download URL, login, and password via email.

Please allow seven business days for a response.

If you have already obtained some of the Reuters corpora, and wish to obtain others, send email to reuters-request@nist.gov. Please provide the name of your organization, the month/year you requested RCV1/2/TRC2, and the corpus you are interested in receiving. An Organizational agreement must be on file at NIST.