= 7th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-7) =
To be held in association with [http://www2012.org/ WWW2012] in Lyon, France,
17th April 2012

Sponsored by [http://www.sigwac.org.uk ACL SIGWAC]

More and more people are using Web data for linguistic and NLP research: the Web provides an easy
source of linguistic data in a great variety of languages. However, a ‘crawl’ is not ready for exploration
in the same way a traditional ‘corpus’ is. We need to turn a crawl into a corpus. The workshop, the seventh in an annual series, provides a venue for exploring what it involves, how to do it, and what we find out if we do.  

We invite submissions which:
 *	describe Web corpus collection projects, or modules for one part of the process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language-id, tokenising, indexing, ...)
 *	explore characteristics of Web data from a linguistics/NLP perspective including registers, domains, frequency distributions, comparisons between datasets
 *	use crawled Web data for NLP purposes (with emphasis on the data rather than the use)

The previous WAC workshops have been co-located with various conferences in computational linguistics. This time the workshop co-locates with WWW2012, the main world conference on the Web technologies and their impact on the society.

== wiki:Programme ==

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== Important dates ==
 * Submission by '''January 30 2012,''' to be made through [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac7 EasyChair]   
 * Notification of acceptance by February 6
 * Camera-ready copy due February 15

Submissions should be formatted using the [http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates ACM SIG stylefiles], 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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== Organising committee ==
 * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd.)
 * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, Workshop Chair)
	
== Programme committee ==
Organising committee plus:
 * Silvia Bernardini, U of Bologna, Italy
 * Stefan Evert, U of Osnabrück, Germany
 * Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Belgium
 * William H. Fletcher, U.S. Naval Academy, USA
 * Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
 * Igor Leturia, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Country, Spain
 * Preslav Nakov, National U of Singapore
 * Jan Pomikalek (Masaryk University)
 * Reinhard Rapp, U Mainz, Germany
 * Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA
 * Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium
 * Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France