[Corpora-List] Final CFP: 2nd WAC Workshop, at EACL

From: Adam Kilgarriff (adam@lexmasterclass.com)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 10:33:27 MET

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                              Final Call for Papers:
                           2nd WEB AS CORPUS WORKSHOP

    In conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the
    Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)

                                   Trento, Italy
                                   April 4, 2006

    Submissions by 6 Jan 2006 at
    http://www.softconf.com/start/EACL06_WS01/

    Workshop site:
    http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_eacl06.html

    Previous WaC Workshop:
    http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html

                       Co-chairs: Adam Kilgarriff and Marco Baroni

                                         Topics
                                         ------

    Research on the Web as corpus is currently at a very exciting stage:
    increasing evidence points to the enormous potential of the Internet as a
    source of linguistic data, but we are still far from a working,
    fully-fledged
    linguists' search engine. Many fundamental issues are just starting to be
    tackled, ranging from Web frequency distributions and registers, to
    efficient handling of massive data sets, to copyright.

    We invite submissions which:

    - describe Web corpus collection projects, or modules for one part of
    the process (crawling, filtering, language-id, tokenizing,
    lemmatizing, POS-tagging, indexing, ...)

    - explore characteristics of Web data, from a linguistics/NLP
    perspective

    - use crawled Web data for NLP purposes.

    Preference will be given to projects where Web data are downloaded and
    processed directly, rather than via search engine interfaces.

    Submission Information
    ----------------------

    Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
    work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should follow the
    two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8)
    pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL
    LaTeX or Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's
    conference available at

    http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm

    Papers must conform to the official EACL-06 style guidelines, and we
    reserve the right to reject submissions that do not conform to these
    styles, including font size restrictions. Submissions should be in PDF
    format and must include all fonts, so that the paper will print (not
    just view) anywhere.

    Please submit your paper no later than January 6, 2006, at
    http://www.softconf.com/start/EACL06_WS01/

    Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
    program committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
    proceedings.

    Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop
    are allowed; if you submit to the main session, do indicate this when
    you submit to the workshop, and specify your EACL submission reference
    number, for administrative ease. If your paper is accepted for the
    main session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon
    notification by the main session.

    Important Dates
    ---------------

    January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers

    January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance

    February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due

    April 4, 2006 - Workshop

    Program Committee
    -----------------

    Marco Baroni (co-chair)
    Silvia Bernardini
    Massimiliano Ciaramita
    Stefan Evert
    William H. Fletcher
    Gregory Grefenstette
    Frank Keller
    Adam Kilgarriff (co-chair)
    Mirella Lapata
    Anke Lüdeling
    Philip Resnik
    Serge Sharoff

    Contacts
    --------

    Adam Kilgarriff: adam_AT_lexmasterclass.com
    Marco Baroni: baroni_AT_sslmit.unibo.it
     



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