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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
• ​WAC4 at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008
• WAC5, at SPLN, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 7 September 2009
• WAC6, at NAACL-HLT, Los Angeles, USA, 5 June 2010: programme here
• ​BUCC, Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Portland, Oregon, 24 June 2011, In 2011 we will meet at the BUCC workshop at ​ACL2011
• WAC7, at ​WWW12, Lyon, France, 17 April 2012
• WAC8, at ​Corpus Linguistics 2013, Lancaster, UK, 22 July 2013
• WAC9, at ​EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-27 April 2014
• WAC@eLex2015, In 2015 we will meet at eLex, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 10 August 2015
• WAC-X at ​ACL 2016, Berlin, DE, 11 or 12 August 2016

Activities

• ​CLEANEVAL, a competition for cleaning webpages
• Mailing list:
  • sign up ​here
  • address to send mail to sigwac at sslmit.unibo.it

Officers (01.AUG 2015 - 31.JUL 2018)

• Chair: ​Roland Schäfer (email: roland.schaefer(at)fu-berlin.de)
• Secretary: ​Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu)

Constitution here​.

Useful resources

• ​Stefan Evert's WAC website
• ​Bill Fletcher's WAC website
• ​Schäfer and Bildhauer's web corpus book

Web corpora

• ​Aranea web corpora
• ​Corpora from the Web (COW) of Freie Universität Berlin
• ​University of Leeds (CTS) web corpora
• ​Web corpora on Sketchengine
• ​WaCky corpora