= 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8) @ [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/ Corpus Linguistics 2013]= == Monday, 22 July 2013 (Lancaster, UK) == //Endorsed by [http://www.sigwac.org.uk ACL SIGWAC].// 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. We invite papers on all aspects of building and using Web corpora, with a particular focus on (but not limited to) the following: * 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, ...) == Important dates == * March 3: Submission of extended abstract to be made through [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac8 EasyChair] * March 17: Notification of acceptance * June 23: Submission of full paper * July 22: Workshop {{{#!comment == Programme == The proceedings are available [https://sigwac.org.uk/raw-attachment/wiki/WAC8/wac8-proc.pdf here] ||9.00|| '''Welcome''' || ||9.10|| '''Invited Talk''': ''tba'' || || ||tba|| ||10.00||''foo bar''|| || || something very interesting || ||10.40 || ''' Coffee ''' || }}} == Submission Information == Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Contributions must be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed two (2) pages, including references. Submissions should be formatted using the format of [http://www.acl2013.org/site/call.html the ACL 2013 proceedings]. ||= LaTeX =||= MS Word =|| || [attachment:acl2013.tex] || [attachment:acl2013.doc] || || [attachment:acl2013.sty] || [attachment:acl2013.msword.pdf acl2013.pdf] || || [attachment:acl2013.latex.pdf acl2013.pdf] || [attachment:acl2013.dot] || || [attachment:acl.bst] || || Authors of those papers that are accepted will be invited to submit full papers (up to eight pages) before the workshop itself and these will appear in an online proceedings. == Organising committee == * Stefan Evert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) * Egon Stemle, European Academy of !Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University == Programme committee == Organising committee plus: tba {{{#!comment * ?? Silvia Bernardini, U of Bologna, Italy * Paul Cook, U of Melbourne, Australia -- paulcook@unimelb.edu.au * Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Belgium -- Cedrick.Fairon@uclouvain.be * ? William H. Fletcher, U.S. Naval Academy, USA -- fletcher@kwicfinder.com * ? Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France -- ggrefens@exalead.com * ? Sebastian Hoffmann, U Trier, Germany -- hoffmann@uni-trier.de * Adam Kilgarriff. Lexical Computing Ltd, UK -- adam@lexmasterclass.com * ? Igor Leturia, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Country, Spain -- igor@elhuyar.com * ?? Preslav Nakov, National U of Singapore * ? Jan Pomikalek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic -- xpomikal@fi.muni.cz * ?? Reinhard Rapp, U Mainz, Germany * ?? Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA * Serge Sharoff, U of Leeds, UK -- s.sharoff@leeds.ac.uk * ??Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium * ? Stephen Wattam -- stephenwattam@gmail.com * ? Eros Zanchetta, U of Bologna, Italy -- eros@sslmit.unibo.it * ??Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, France - Frank Keller, U of Edinburgh -- keller@inf.ed.ac.uk - Marco Baroni, U of Trento, Italy -- marco.baroni@lett.unitn.it }}} {{{#!comment PC invite e-mail: """ Dear ###, As organisers of the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8), this year at Corpus Linguistics 2013 [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/], we would like to ask you if you could be part of the WAC-8 Program Committee. After a stronger focus on application-oriented natural language processing and Web technology in recent years the workshop returns to its roots in the corpus linguistics community. Consequently, we expect very interesting submissions from this joint theme. Moreover, we are trying to assemble a reasonably large PC, to keep reviewing assignments to a minimum. The important dates are the following (and cf. [https://sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC8] for more information): * March 3: Submission of extended abstract to be made through EasyChair * March 17: Notification of acceptance * June 23: Submission of full paper Authors will be invited to submit extended abstracts of a maximum of two (2) pages, including references. We would be grateful if you could let us know your availability asap, but in any case by Monday February 18th. Please note that PC membership does not preclude you from submitting an extended abstract to the workshop. We believe you would make a great addition to the WAC-8 WaCKy PC. Looking forward to your favourable response. Thanks, ### (on behalf of the organising committee). """ }}}