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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 is scheduled for 7 September 2009, San Sebastian, Spain
Activities
- CLEANEVAL, a competition for cleaning webpages
- Mailing list:
- sign up here
- address to send mail to sigwac at sslmit.unibo.it
Officers
- Chair: Serge Sharoff (email: s.sharoff at leeds.ac.uk)
- Secretary: Marco Baroni (email: marco.baroni at unitn.it)
Constitution here.