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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CLEANEVAL <a href="http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk/">http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk</a>
is an open evaluation exercise for programs for ‘cleaning’ web
pages: taking arbitrary web pages as input and delivering clean text, suitable for
training language models or linguistic research, as output. Better web
text cleaning will “remove the grit from the machine” for a wide variety
of NLP systems and applications. Our goals are to share knowledge and experiences,
and provide open source software that does it well.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Evaluation (downloading evaluation dataset,
processing, and returning) to take place between 11th and 22<sup>nd</sup> June
2007.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Please do participate (and/or encourage students and colleagues
to do so too). To express your intention, please email <a
href="mailto:cleaneval@sigwac.org.uk">cleaneval@sigwac.org.uk</a> . There are <font
color=red><span style='color:red'>prizes</span></font> for the best student entries.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All details at <a
href="http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk/">http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CLEANEVAL is an activity of the Association for
Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus (ACL-SIGWAC).</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>==========================================================</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Adam Kilgarriff</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chair,
ACL-SIGWAC <a
href="http://sigwac.org.uk/">http://sigwac.org.uk</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lexical Computing Ltd
<a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Universities of </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Leeds</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>
and </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sussex</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com">adam@lexmasterclass.com</a>
<a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk">http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk</a> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>==========================================================</span></font></p>
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