Evaluating corpora documentation with regards to the Ethics and Big Data Charter

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)

Abstract

The authors have written the Ethic and Big Data Charter in collaboration with various agencies, private bodies and associations. This Charter aims at describing any large or complex resources, and in particular language resources, from a legal and ethical viewpoint and ensuring the transparency of the process of creating and distributing such resources. We propose in this article an analysis of the documentation coverage of the most frequently mentioned language resources with regards to the Charter, in order to show the benefit it offers.