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v1 v2 1 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X) and EmpiriST Shared Task 1 = 10th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-X) and EmpiriST Shared Task = 2 3 == WAC-X main workshop == 2 4 3 5 The World Wide Web has become increasingly popular as a source of linguistic data, not only within the NLP communities, but also with theoretical linguists facing problems of data sparseness or data diversity. Accordingly, web corpora continue to gain importance, given their size and diversity in terms of genres/text types. The field is still new, though, and a number of issues in web corpus construction need much additional research, both fundamental and applied. These issues range from questions of corpus design (e.g., corpus composition assessment, sampling strategies and their relation to crawling algorithms, handling of duplicated material) to more technical aspects (e.g., efficient implementation of individual post-processing steps in document cleansing and linguistic annotation, or large-scale parallelization to achieve web-scale corpus construction). Similarly, the systematic evaluation of web corpora, for example in the form of task-based comparisons to traditional corpora, has only recently shifted into focus. … … 29 31 * web-specific lexicography, grammaticography, and language documentation 30 32 31 EmpiriST 2015 shared task 33 == EmpiriST 2015 shared task == 32 34 33 35 The EmpiriST 2015 shared task aims to encourage the developers of NLP applications to adapt their tools and resources to the processing of German discourse in genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), including both dialogical (chat, SMS, social networks, etc.) and monological (web pages, blogs, etc.) texts. Since there has been relatively little work in this area for German so far, the shared task focuses on tokenization and part-of-speech tagging as the core annotation steps required by virtually all NLP applications. While we have a particular interest in robust tools that can be applied to dialogical CMC and web corpora alike, participants are allowed to use different systems for the two subsets or submit results for one subset only.
