Call for papers
* 3rd Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC3)
incorporating Cleaneval
An ACL-SIGWAC event*
Sept. 15-16, 2007
University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
More and more people are using Web data for linguistic and NLP research.
The workshop provides a venue for exploring how we can use it
effectively and what we will find if we do.
We invite submissions which :
* describe Web corpus collection projects, or modules for one part
of the process (crawling, filtering, language-id, tokenising,
lemmatising, POS-tagging, indexing, ...)
* explore characteristics of Web data, from a linguistics/NLP
perspective including registers, domains, frequency distributions
* use crawled Web data for NLP purposes (with emphasis on the data
rather than the use)
Cleaneval
Anyone using web data needs to clean it, to get rid of unwanted material
including, for example, HTML markup, navigation bars, advertisements. To
date there has been no sharing of resources or expertise and the
cleaning has often been done minimally. Cleaneval is an exercise to
promote sharing and to improve our understanding of the issues. It will
take the now-familiar form of an open competition and shared task. More
info at Cleaneval <http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk>.
Previous WAC workshops
More info at WAC1
<http://sslmit.unibo.it/%7Ebaroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html> at Corpus
Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005.
More info at WAC2
<http://sslmit.unibo.it/%7Ebaroni/web_as_corpus_eacl06.html> at EACL,
Trento, Italy, April 2006.
Invited speaker : Kevin Scannell
Kevin Scannell, of Saint Louis Univ., Missouri, USA, has been working
with scholars of a range of smaller languages to develop web corpora for
those languages : website <http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/stadas.html>
currently lists 135 corpora/languages.
Submission
For regular papers :
Papers (6-10 pages), demos (max. 2 pages) and posters (max. 2 pages) to
be written in English and follow ACL formatting. Template files (.doc &
Latex) available on the website.
For Cleaneval submissions see Cleaneval <http://cleaneval.sigwac.org.uk>
website.
Deadline: 1 May 2007
Venue
Université catholique de Louvain
<http://www.uclouvain.be/en-index.html>, in the elegant new city of
Louvain-la-Neuve <http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/louvain-la-neuve.shtml>
(Belgium). Large computer rooms will be available for demo sessions.
Points of contact
Worskshop Co-chairs
Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Cental, fairon@tedm.ucl.ac.be
Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Universiteit Gent
Cleaneval committee
Marco Baroni, U Trento; Secretary, SIGWAC
Tony Hartley, U Leeds
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd; Chair, SIGWAC
Serge Sharoff, U Leeds
Local organisation team
Bernadette Dehottay, UCLouvain, Cental, dehottay@tedm.ucl.ac.be
Julia Medori, CENTAL, UCLouvain
Laurent Kevers, CENTAL, UCLouvain
Hubert Naets, CENTAL, UCLouvain
Isabelle Lecroart, CENTAL, UCLouvain
Claude Devis, CENTAL, UCLouvain
Contact us :
Bernadette Dehottay
Université catholique de Louvain
Centre for Natural Language Processing (CENTAL)
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Tel. +32 10 47 37 88
Fax. +32 10 47 26 06
dehottay@tedm.ucl.ac.be
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