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The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus.
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The Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus aims to research the opportunities and limitations of using textual web data for
- performing linguistic research
- modelling knowledge of language
- modelling extralinguistic knowledge
Objectives
- To build a community around the web-as-corpus research
- To support and promote information exchange and the dissemination of results and best practices
- To organize workshops, hackathons and shared tasks
Download the constitution of ACL SIGWAC.
Officers
- Nikola Ljubešić (co-president)
- Benoît Sagot (co-president)
- Veronika Laippala (co-secretary)
- Pedro Ortiz Suarez (co-secretary)
Resources
Corpora
- CommonCrawl
- OSCAR
- ParaCrawl
- MaCoCu
- CLASSLA South Slavic web corpora
- Aranea web corpora
- CLARIN.SI web corpora
- University of Leeds (CTS) web corpora
- Web corpora on Sketchengine (commercial product)
- WaCKy corpora
Technologies
- A Masaryk University and Lexical Computing list of tools for harvesting and processing web data
- The XGENRE multilingual text genre classifier
- Massively Multilingual Modeling of Web Registers by TurkuNLP
Additional information
- Schäfer and Bildhauer's web corpus book
- Stephanie Evert's WAC website
- CLEANEVAL, a competition for cleaning webpages
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
ACL SIGWAC annual reports
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