2019Q3 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: roland.schaefer(at)fu-berlin.de)
- Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu)
The current SIGWAC officers term is 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021
Events
After the last SIGWAC workshop (WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics 2017, Birmingham, UK, 24–27 July 2017), WAC-XII is currently being organised (proposal to be submitted to a major langage technology conference) by the organisers: Adrien Barbaresi (BBAW, Berlin, Germany), Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim, Germany), Roland Schäfer (FU Berlin, Germany), Egon Stemle (EURAC, Bolzano, Italy). WAC-XII is expected to take place in 2020.