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6th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-6) </h1><h1 id="a6thWebasCorpusWorkshopWAC-6" style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.018em; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 24px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">
Call For Participation</h1><p style="text-align: center;">To be held in association with <a class="ext-link" href="http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 85, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://www.sigwac.org.uk/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>NAACL-HLT</a> in Los Angeles</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Morning of Saturday 5th June 2010</span></p><h3 id="InvitedSpeaker:PatrickPantelISIUniversityofSouthernCalifornia" style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.018em; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; ">
Invited Speaker: <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.patrickpantel.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: inherit; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://www.sigwac.org.uk/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>Patrick Pantel</a>, ISI, University of Southern California</h3>
<p>More and more people are using Web data for linguistic and NLP research. The workshop, the sixth in an annual series, provides a venue for exploring how we can use it effectively and what we will find if we do.</p><p style="text-align: center;">
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Program</span></b></p><p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>Session 1:</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
8:30</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Start, introduction</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
8:40</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><i>NoWaC: a large web-based corpus for Norwegian</i><br>Emiliano Raul Guevara</td>
</tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">9:05</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
<i>Building a Korean Web Corpus for Analyzing Learner Language</i><br>Markus Dickinson, Ross Israel and Sun-Hee Lee</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
9:30</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Invited talk by Patrick Pantel</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
10:30</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Coffee break</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><b>Session 2:</b></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
11:00</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><i>Sketching Techniques for Large Scale NLP</i><br>Amit Goyal, Jagadeesh Jagaralamudi, Hal Daumé III and Suresh Venkatasubramanian</td>
</tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">11:25</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
<i>Building Webcorpora of Academic Prose with BootCaT</i><br>George Dillon</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; ">
11:50</td><td valign="top" style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; "><i>Google Web 1T 5-Grams Made Easy (but not for the computer)</i><br>Stefan Evert</td>
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Closing session</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>Previous WAC workshops have been in Europe and Africa. The west coast of the US is the global centre for web development, hosting Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and a thousand others, so we are looking forward to visiting!</p>
<p>Sponsored by <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.sigwac.org.uk/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 85, 255); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://www.sigwac.org.uk/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>ACL SIGWAC</a></p>
<h2 id="Organisingcommittee" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.018em; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; ">Organising committee<a class="anchor" href="http://www.sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC6#Organisingcommittee" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; vertical-align: text-top; visibility: hidden; "></a></h2>
<ul><li>Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd., Workshop Chair)</li><li>Dekang Lin (Google Inc)</li><li>Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, SIGWAC Chair)</li></ul><p></p><h2 id="Programmecommittee" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: -0.018em; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 1.5em; ">
Programme committee<a class="anchor" href="http://www.sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC6#Programmecommittee" title="Link to this section" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; font-size: 0.8em; vertical-align: text-top; visibility: hidden; "></a></h2>
<p>Organising committee plus:</p><ul><li>Silvia Bernardini, U of Bologna, Italy</li><li>Stefan Evert, U of Osnabrück, Germany</li><li>Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Belgium</li><li>William H. Fletcher, U.S. Naval Academy, USA</li>
<li>Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France</li><li>Igor Leturia, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Country, Spain</li><li>Jan Pomikalek. Masaryk Univ, Czech Republic</li><li>Preslav Nakov, National U of Singapore</li><li>Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA</li>
<li>Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium</li></ul></div></div></span>--<br>================================================<br>Adam Kilgarriff <a href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk">http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk</a> <br>
Lexical Computing Ltd <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a><br>Lexicography MasterClass Ltd <a href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com">http://www.lexmasterclass.com</a><br>
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