------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 . -- 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 currently lists 135 corpora/languages. -- Previous WAC workshops -- WAC1 at Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005: . WAC2 at EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006: . -- Submission -- For regular papers: Papers (6-10 pages), demos (max. 2 pages) and posters (max. 2 pages) to be written in English. Template files (.doc & Latex) available on the WAC3 website. Proceedings will be published in "Cahiers du Cental" at the Louvain University Press: http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/cahiers For CLEANEVAL submissions see Cleaneval website: . Deadline: 1 May 2007 -- Venue -- Université catholique de Louvain , in the elegant new city of Louvain-la-Neuve (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