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

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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 (e.g. the upcoming crisis regarding the web data authenticity given the recent staggering improvements in generative large language models);
• to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.

Download the constitution of ACL SIGWAC​.

Meetings

• WAC-XII at ​LREC 2020, Marseille, France, 16 May 2020… CANCELLED due to Covid-19 outbreak but proceedings have been published!
• WAC-XI at ​Corpus Linguistics 2017, Birmingham, UK, 24-27 July 2017
• WAC-X at ​ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany, 12 August 2016
• WAC@eLex2015, In 2015 we will meet at eLex, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 10 August 2015
• WAC9, at ​EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-27 April 2014
• WAC8, at ​Corpus Linguistics 2013, Lancaster, UK, 22 July 2013
• WAC7, at ​WWW12, Lyon, France, 17 April 2012
• ​BUCC, Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Portland, Oregon, 24 June 2011, In 2011 we will meet at the BUCC workshop at ​ACL2011
• WAC6, at NAACL-HLT, Los Angeles, USA, 5 June 2010: programme here
• WAC5, at SPLN, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 7 September 2009
• ​WAC4 at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008
• ​WAC3, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-16 September 2007
• ​WAC2, at EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006
• ​WAC1, at Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005

Other Activities

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

Officers

• Nikola Ljubešić (co-president)
• Benoît Sagot (co-president)
• Veronika Laippala (co-secretary)
• Pedro Ortiz Suarez (co-secretary)

ACL SIGWAC annual reports

• ​ACL SIGWAC 2021 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2020 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2019 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2018 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2016 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2015 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2014 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2013 Q3 report
• ​ACL SIGWAC 2012 Q3 report
• ​Older reports...

Resources

Information

• ​Stephanie Evert'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