| 1 | CONSTITUTION OF THE ACL SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON WEB AS CORPUS (SIGWAC)
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| 4 | I. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
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| 6 | The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus (the SIG)
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| 7 | shall be to promote interest in using the web as a corpus; to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in web as corpus with a
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| 8 | means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest in the area; and to
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| 9 | sponsor meetings and workshops on web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwile, operating within the framework
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| 10 | of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.
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| 13 | II. ELECTED OFFICERS
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| 15 | The elected officers of the SIG shall consist of a President and a Secretary. The President and Secretary shall be members in good standing of the ACL.
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| 17 | The term of all elected officers of the SIG shall be three years.
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| 19 | The duties of the President shall be:
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| 20 | (1) To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of the SIG.
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| 21 | (2) To prepare a written report on the activities of the SIG for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for
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| 22 | presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
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| 23 | (3) To act as a Liaison Representative, who shall be primarily responsible for communication with members of the
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| 24 | SIG, answering inquiries about the SIG, and communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL.
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| 26 | The duties of the Secretary shall be:
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| 27 | (1) To maintain a mailing list for the SIG.
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| 29 | III. ELECTION OF OFFICERS
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| 31 | All officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. The vote shall take place at least 4 weeks before the expiration of the terms of the officers to be elected, with at least 4 weeks' notice of
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| 32 | nominations to SIG members.
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| 34 | IV. DUES
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| 36 | The SIG will not charge dues.
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