Changes between Version 34 and Version 35 of WAC8

Timestamp:

06/18/13 16:19:43 (11 years ago)

Author:

egon w. stemle

Comment:

add CfP e-mail

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+SUBJECT: Call for Participation: 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (22 July 2013, Lancaster, UK)
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+CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
+
+    8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8)
+    Endorsed by ACL SIGWAC
+    Hosted by the Corpus Linguistics 2013 Conference
+ 
+    Monday, 22 July 2013 (Lancaster, UK)
+
+** Note that registration for the workshop and the main conference closes on SUNDAY, JUNE 30. **
+Registration URL: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php
+
+Further details can be found on the workshop homepage at
+
+    http://sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC8
+
+______________________________________________________________________
+ 
+Web 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.
+ 
+Since the first Web as Corpus Workshop organised at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, a highly successful 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.
+ 
+Accordingly, 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. The workshop brings together presentations on all aspects of building, using and evaluating Web corpora, with a particular focus on the following topics:
+ 
+* applications of Web corpora and other Web-derived data sets for language research
+* 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)
+* critical exploration of the characteristics of Web data from a linguistic perspective and its applicability to language research
+* presentation of Web corpus collection projects or software tools required for some part of this process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language identification, indexing, ...)
+
+______________________________________________________________________
+
+PROGRAMME
+
+09:00 Akshay Minocha, Siva Reddy and Adam Kilgarriff -- Feed Corpus: An Ever Growing Up-to-date Corpus
+09:30 Stephen Wattam, Paul Rayson and Damon Berridge -- LWAC: Longitudinal Web-as-Corpus Sampling
+10:00 Roland Schäfer, Adrien Barbaresi and Felix Bildhauer -- The Good, the Bad, and the Hazy: Design Decisions in Web Corpus Construction
+10:30 Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber -- Developing a User-based Method of Web Register Classification
+
+11:00 - 11:30   Tea Break       
+
+11:30 Adam Kilgarriff and Vít Suchomel -- Web Spam
+12:00 David Lutz, Parry Cadwallader and Mats Rooth -- A web application for filtering and annotating web speech data
+12:30 Sarah Schulz, Verena Lyding and Lionel Nicolas -- STirWaC - Compiling a diverse corpus based on texts from the web for South Tyrolean German
+
+13:00 - 14:00   Lunch   
+
+14:00 Alexander Piperski, Vladimir Belikov, Nikolay Kopylov, Vladimir Selegey and Serge Sharoff -- Big and diverse is beautiful: A large corpus of Russian to study linguistic variation
+14:30 Adriano Ferraresi and Silvia Bernardini -- The academic Web-as-Corpus
+15:00 Silke Scheible and Sabine Schulte Im Walde -- A Compact but Linguistically Detailed Database for German Verb Subcategorisation relying on Dependency Parses from a Web Corpus
+
+15:30 - 16:00   Tea Break       
+
+16:00 Andrew Brindle -- Thug breaks man's jaw: A Corpus Analysis of Responses to Interpersonal Street Violence
+16:30 Colleen Crangle -- A web-based model of semantic relatedness and the analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) data
+17:00 Discussion and wrap-up
+
+18:00 Pub
+
+______________________________________________________________________ 
+
+Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop,
+The organising committee.
+ 
+Stefan Evert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
+Egon Stemle, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
+Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
+"""
+}}}