Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of WAC8


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    11= 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8) @ [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/ Corpus Linguistics 2013]=
    2 == Lancaster, UK; Monday 22nd July 2013 ==
     2== Monday, 22 July 2013 (Lancaster, UK) ==
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    86Web corpora and other Web-derived data have become a gold mine for corpus linguistics and natural language processing.  The Web is an easy source of unprecedented amounts of linguistic data from a broad range of registers and text types.  However, a collection of Web pages is not immediately suitable for exploration in the same way a traditional corpus is.
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    10 Since the first Web as Corpus Workshop organised at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, a highly succesful series of yearly Web as Corpus workshops provides a venue for interested researchers to meet, share ideas and discuss the problems and possibilities of compiling and using Web corpora.  After a stronger focus on application-oriented natural language processing and Web technology in recent years -- with workshops taking place at the NAACL-HLT 2010, 2011 and WWW 2012 -- the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop returns to its roots in the corpus linguistics community.
     8Since the first Web as Corpus Workshop organised at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, a highly succesful series of yearly Web as Corpus workshops provides a venue for interested researchers to meet, share ideas and discuss the problems and possibilities of compiling and using Web corpora.  After a stronger focus on application-oriented natural language processing and Web technology in recent years – with workshops taking place at NAACL-HLT 2010, 2011 and WWW 2012 – the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop returns to its roots in the corpus linguistics community.
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    1210Accordingly, the leading theme of this workshop is the application of Web data in language research, including linguistic evaluation of Web-derived corpora as well as strategies and tools for high-quality automatic annotation of Web text. We invite papers on all aspects of building and using Web corpora, with a particular focus on (but not limited to) the following:
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    1412 * applications of Web corpora and other Web-derived data sets for language research
    15  * automatic linguistic annotation of Web data such as tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatisation and semantic tagging (the accuracy of established software tools is still unsatisfactory for many types of Web data)
    16  * critical exploration of characteristics of Web data from a linguistic perspective and its applicability to language research
    17  * presentation of Web corpus collection projects or software tools required for some part of the process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language identification, indexing, ...)
     13 * automatic linguistic annotation of Web data such as tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatisation and semantic tagging\\ (the accuracy of currently available off-the-shelf tools is still unsatisfactory for many types of Web data)
     14 * critical exploration of the characteristics of Web data from a linguistic perspective and its applicability to language research
     15 * presentation of Web corpus collection projects or software tools required for some part of this process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language identification, indexing, ...)
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