7th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-7)

To be held in association with ​WWW2012 in Lyon, France, 17th April 2012

Sponsored by ​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.

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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