[Corpora-List] Call for workshop participation: BootCaTters of the world unite! (BOTWU)

[silvia bernardini]

Workshop: BootCaTters of the world unite! (BOTWU)

Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna
Forlì, Italy, 24 June 2013


The BootCaT toolkit (in its various incarnations, e.g. the web-based 
version integrated in the SketchEngine or the standalone application 
downloadable from http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/) has become one of the 
most widely used tools to build web-derived corpora, its applications 
ranging from the construction of relatively small ad hoc corpora to more 
ambitious research efforts aiming to provide large reference corpora for 
multiple languages.

The BOTWU workshop aims to bring together those who have contributed (or 
would like to contribute) to the development of BootCaT, and those who 
have used it (or would like to use it) in their work. In so doing, we 
hope to better understand how the tool is used today, as well as explore 
new avenues for its development.


==Programme (Provisional)==

09:45 OPENING
10:00 SESSION 1
* Marco Baroni (University of Trento): My love affair with the Web, and 
why it ended
* Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd): WebBootCaT usage 2010-13
* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds): [Title to be announced]
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:45 SESSION 2
* Marco Brunello (University of Leeds): BiTextCaT: a complete pipeline 
to collect parallel corpora from the web
* Erika Dalan (University of Bologna): Genre-driven vs. topic-driven 
BootCaT corpora: building and evaluating a corpus of academic course 
descriptions
* Maja Miličević (University of Belgrade): Genre-based BootCaT corpora 
for morphologically rich languages
13:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:45 SESSION 3
* Egon W. Stemle and Verena Lyding (EURAC, Bolzano): The future of 
BootCaT: A Creative Commons License filter
* Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana): Polishing BootCat 
corpora: XML validation and tagset unification
* Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb): Helping BootCaT to catch the 
Babel fish: Getting encoding, content and language right
16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:45 ROUND TABLE
17:45 CLOSING

**for programme updates, please check 
http://botwu.sslmit.unibo.it/?section=programme&lang=en**


==Registration==

Participation is free but places are limited. If you would like to 
attend the workshop please send us an email (botwu at sslmit.unibo.it). 
First come, first served.


==Getting here, accommodation, anything else==

http://botwu.sslmit.unibo.it/, or drop us a line.

[and whether you are planning to come to the workshop or not, please 
help us to define the next-generation BootCaT by filling in the 5-click 
survey available here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9YLZB5D]


Hoping to see you in Forlì!

Silvia Bernardini and Adam Kilgarriff

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