Unless otherwise stated, the content of this website and the MaTRiC corpus data are associated with the MaTRiC research project, which is institutionally based at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. The corpus data are made available to registered users under these Terms and Conditions.
1. Permitted use
MaTRiC may be used for academic research, teaching, learning, and other non-commercial scholarly purposes.
Users may use the full MaTRiC corpus, combine all available subcorpora, or select one or more country-based subcorpora depending on their research or educational needs. Users are responsible for ensuring that their use of the corpus is appropriate, ethical, and consistent with these Terms and Conditions.
2. Prohibited use
Users must not misuse the corpus data. In particular, users must not:
- redistribute, re-upload, publish, sell, or share the corpus data with third parties;
- use the corpus data for commercial purposes without prior written permission from the project leader;
- present the corpus data as their own dataset;
- use the corpus data in a way that may harm individuals, organisations, or the reputation of the project;
- attempt to identify, contact, or profile individual reviewers.
3. Citation and acknowledgement
Users should acknowledge MaTRiC when using the corpus in publications, presentations, reports, theses, teaching materials, or other research outputs.
Suggested acknowledgement:
The data were obtained from the Malaysia Tourism Review Corpus (MaTRiC). Available at: www.touristcorpusmalaysia.com. All rights in the corpus data are reserved.
4. No warranty
The project team makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the corpus is accurate and properly prepared. However, MaTRiC is provided as a research resource, and the project team does not guarantee that the data will be error-free or suitable for every research purpose.
5. Changes to these terms
The project team may update these Terms and Conditions when necessary. Continued use of the website or corpus data after changes are made means that users accept the updated terms.