6th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-6)

To be held in association with ​WWW12 in Lyon, 17th April 2012

Sponsored by ​ACL SIGWAC

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.

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)

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!

Call for Papers

• Submission by January 15 2012, to be made through the EasyChair system at ​https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=www2012
• Notification of acceptance by January 30
• Camera-ready copy due February 15

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.

Organising committee

• Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd.)
• Jan Pomikalek (Masaryk University)
• 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
• Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA
• Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium