# Microsoft Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK)

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### a. BOOST C++ LIBRARIES

Copyright Beman Dawes, David Abrahams, 1998-2005.  
Copyright Rene Rivera 2004-2007.

Provided for Informational Purposes Only

Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003

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### b. ATIS DATASETS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of ATIS Datasets:

Hemphill, Charles, et al. ATIS0 Complete LDC93S4A. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.

Garofolo, John, et al. ATIS2 LDC93S5. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.

Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Test Data LDC95S26. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.

Dahl, Deborah, et al. ATIS3 Training Data LDC94S19. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1994.

### c. TIMIT ACOUSTIC-PHONETIC CONTINUOUS SPEECH CORPUS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus:

Garofolo, John, et al. TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus LDC93S1. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1993.

### d. THE PENN TREEBANK PROJECT

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the data of The Penn Treebank Project:

Marcus, Mitchell, Beatrice Santorini, and Mary Ann Marcinkiewicz. Treebank-2 LDC95T7. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 1995.

### e. THE CMU AUDIO DATABASES

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the CMU Audio Databases
Copyright (c) 1991-2005 Carnegie Mellon University.  All rights reserved.

### f. THE MNIST DATABASE OF HANDWRITTEN DIGITS

CNTK distribution contains a subset of the MNIST Database of Handwritten Digits