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The Special Interest Group of the ​Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus.

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.

Meetings

• ​WAC1, at Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005
• ​WAC2, at EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006
• ​WAC3, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-16 September 2007

Activities

• ​CLEANEVAL
• ​WACKY
• Mailing list:
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  • address to send mail to: sigwac@…

Officers

• Chair: ​Adam Kilgarriff
• Secretary: ​Marco Baroni