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From: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@Colorado.EDU>
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:52:30 -0600
Subject: Re: ctakes model
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Excellent. Thanks for following through with this Tim!

Steve


On Mar 29, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Tim Miller <timothy.miller@childrens.harvard.e=
du> wrote:

> I emailed the author of svmlight and he was very clear that our usage is=
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>    Hi Tim,
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>    Using the models trained with my software in the way you describe is f=
ine with me for the application you describe. Feel free to include the trai=
ned models in the distribution under any license you like...
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>    Cheers
>    Thorsten
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> Tim
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> On 03/26/2013 10:04 AM, Tim Miller wrote:
>> We are using a software package called svmlight and a derivative=20
>> called svmlight-tk to train machine learning models in research. If=20
>> the results are good we would like to include the models in cTAKES. We=20
>> thought we should consult legal because this software uses a custom=20
>> license not covered by FAQs, and we just want to be on the safe side.=20
>> The full text of the license is attached.
>> (Just in case the attachment doesn't work I was able to find it on the=20
>> web here: http://morphix-nlp.berlios.de/manual/node48.html but not at=20
>> the svmlight webpage.)
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>> To be clear, we do not want to redistribute the svmlight or=20
>> svmlight-tk source or binaries or even use maven to download them.=20
>> There is code in clearTK which can read these models and process new=20
>> data and is license compatible. We are only talking about distributing=20
>> models trained with the svmlight and svmlight-tk packages.
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>> Thanks,
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