[Corpora-List] Deadline extension: CFP: 7th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-7)

[Serge Sharoff]

*Deadline extension*
  * Submission by *January 29, 2012* to be made through 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac7
  * Notification of acceptance by February 6
  * Camera-ready copy due February 15


To be held in association with WWW2012 in Lyon, France, 17th April 2012

Sponsored by ACL SIGWAC, http://www.sigwac.org.uk

More and more people are using Web data for linguistic and NLP research: 
the Web provides an easy
source of linguistic data in a great variety of languages. However, a 
‘crawl’ is not ready for exploration
in the same way a traditional ‘corpus’ is. We need to turn a crawl into 
a corpus. The workshop, the seventh
in an annual series, provides a venue for exploring what it involves, 
how to do it, and what we find out if we do.

We invite submissions which:
  * describe Web corpus collection projects, or modules for one part of 
the process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language-id, 
tokenising, indexing, ...)
  * explore characteristics of Web data from a linguistics/NLP 
perspective including registers, domains, frequency distributions, 
comparisons between datasets
  * use crawled Web data for NLP purposes (with emphasis on the data 
rather than the use)

The previous WAC workshops have been co-located with various conferences 
in computational linguistics. This time the workshop co-locates with 
WWW2012, the main world conference on the Web technologies and their 
impact on the society.


== Organising committee ==
  * Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd.)
  * Jan Pomikalek (Masaryk University)
  * Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, Workshop Chair)

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