| | 1 | = 6th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-6) = |
| | 2 | To be held in association with [http://www2012.org/ WWW12] in Lyon, |
| | 3 | 17th April 2012 |
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| | 5 | Sponsored by [http://www.sigwac.org.uk ACL SIGWAC] |
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| | 7 | More and more people are using Web data for linguistic and NLP research. The workshop, the sixth in an annual series, provides a venue for exploring how we can use it effectively and what we will find if we do. |
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| | 9 | We invite submissions which: |
| | 10 | * describe Web corpus collection projects, or modules for one part of the process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language-id, tokenising, indexing, ...) |
| | 11 | * explore characteristics of Web data from a linguistics/NLP perspective including registers, domains, frequency distributions, comparisons between datasets |
| | 12 | * use crawled Web data for NLP purposes (with emphasis on the data rather than the use) |
| | 13 | Previous WAC workshops have been in Europe and Africa. The west coast of the US is the global centre for web development, hosting Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and a thousand others, so we are looking forward to visiting! |
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| | 16 | == Call for Papers == |
| | 17 | * Submission by '''January 15 2012,''' to be made through the EasyChair system at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2012 |
| | 18 | * Notification of acceptance by January 30 |
| | 19 | * Camera-ready copy due February 15 |
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| | 21 | Submissions should be formatted using the WWW 2012 stylefiles, with blind review and not exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page for references. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. |
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| | 24 | == Organising committee == |
| | 25 | * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd.) |
| | 26 | * Jan Pomikalek (Masaryk University) |
| | 27 | * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, Workshop Chair) |
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| | 29 | == Programme committee == |
| | 30 | Organising committee plus: |
| | 31 | * Silvia Bernardini, U of Bologna, Italy |
| | 32 | * Stefan Evert, U of Osnabrück, Germany |
| | 33 | * Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Belgium |
| | 34 | * William H. Fletcher, U.S. Naval Academy, USA |
| | 35 | * Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France |
| | 36 | * Igor Leturia, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Country, Spain |
| | 37 | * Preslav Nakov, National U of Singapore |
| | 38 | * Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA |
| | 39 | * Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium |
