= ACL SIGWAC home page =
The Special Interest Group of the [http://www.aclweb.org/ Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)] on
'''Web as Corpus'''.

== Removal of SIGWAC ==

After several attempts to elect new officers and a last reminder sent on 4 November 2022, ACL was asked to terminate SIGWAC as of 5 November 2022. This page serves as a postmortem archive of SIGWAC's activities from 2005–2020. There are also [https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://www.sigwac.org.uk several snapshots at archive.org].

== Objectives ==
  * to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
  * to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
  * to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile. 

Download the [attachment:wiki:WikiStart:constitution.txt?format=raw constitution of ACL SIGWAC].

== Meetings ==
  * [wiki:WAC-XII] at [https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org LREC 2020], Marseille, France, 16 May 2020… [[span(style=color: #FF0000, CANCELLED due to Covid-19 outbreak)]] but proceedings have been published!
  * [wiki:WAC-XI] at [http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/2017/cl2017/index.aspx Corpus Linguistics 2017], Birmingham, UK, 24-27 July 2017
  * [wiki:WAC-X] at [http://acl2016.org/ ACL 2016], Berlin, Germany, 12 August 2016
  * [wiki:wac2015 WAC@eLex2015], In 2015 we will meet at eLex, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 10 August 2015
  * [wiki:WAC9], at [http://eacl2014.org/ EACL 2014], Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-27 April 2014
  * [wiki:WAC8], at [http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/ Corpus Linguistics 2013], Lancaster, UK, 22 July 2013
  * [wiki:WAC7], at [http://www2012.wwwconference.org/ WWW12], Lyon, France,  17 April 2012
  * [http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/bucc2011-comparable-corpora/ BUCC, Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Portland, Oregon, 24 June 2011], In 2011 we will meet at the BUCC workshop at [http://www.acl2011.org/ ACL2011]
  * [wiki:WAC6], at NAACL-HLT, Los Angeles, USA,  5 June 2010: programme [wiki:WAC6Programme here]
  * [wiki:WAC5], at SPLN, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 7 September 2009
  * [http://webascorpus.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_40_WAC-4___lb__2008__rb__ WAC4 at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008]
  * [http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/wac3 WAC3, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-16 September 2007 ]
  * [http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_eacl06.html WAC2, at EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006]
  * [http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html WAC1, at Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005]


== Other Activities ==
  * [https://sigwac.org.uk/cleaneval CLEANEVAL], a competition for cleaning webpages
  * Mailing list:
    * sign up [http://devel.sslmit.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/sigwac here]
    * address to send mail to sigwac at sslmit.unibo.it

== Officers ==
  * vacant | Efforts to elect new officers failed in August–October 2022

== ACL SIGWAC annual reports ==

 * [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2021 Q3 report]
 * [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2020 Q3 report]
 * [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2019 Q3 report]
 * [https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2018Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2018 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2016 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2015 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2014 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2013 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2012Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC ACL SIGWAC 2012 Q3 report]
 * [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Reports Older reports...]

== Resources ==

=== Information ===
  * [http://webascorpus.sf.net/ Stephanie Evert's WAC website]
  * [http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00508ED1V01Y201305HLT022 Schäfer and Bildhauer's web corpus book]

=== Web corpora ===
  * [http://sketch.juls.savba.sk/aranea_about/ Aranea web corpora] 
  * [http://corporafromtheweb.org/ Corpora from the Web (COW) of Freie Universität Berlin]
  * [http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/internet.html University of Leeds (CTS) web corpora]
  * [http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/ Web corpora on Sketchengine]
  * [http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/ WaCky corpora]