2022Q3 Reports: SIGWAC
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The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus.
Objectives
- to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
- to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
- to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.
Officers
- Chair: Roland Schäfer (email: schaefer(at)hu-berlin.de) – in office provisionally until the next election
- Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu) – in office provisionally until the next election
The current SIGWAC officers' term was 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021.
Events
WAC-XIII was postponed to 2023, depending on the further developments surrounding the pandemic.
As the current officers' term has already ended in 2021, late elections will be held in 2022 via the SIGWAC mailing list. The current officials will not run again.