[Sigwac] Final Call for Papers: 4th Web as Corpus Workshop (LREC 2008, Marrakech)

[Pavel Pecina]

Hi Stefan, is there any chance for a deadline extension?
Couple of days would be great.

Thank you,
-Pavel

Stefan Evert píše v Pá 22. 02. 2008 v 17:48 +0100:
> Dear friends,
> 
> please forward this call to interested colleagues and students.   
> Paper submission has been rather slow so far, and we would like to  
> have a sufficient number of submissions so we can be selective and  
> put together and interesting and exciting workshop programme.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Stefan
> 
> ===== Second Call for Papers =====
> 
> The 4th Web as Corpus workshop: Can we beat Google?
> 
> Marrakech, Morocco (post-LREC workshop)
> 1 June 2008
> 
> http://webascorpus.sf.net/WAC4/
> 
> ==================================
> 
> Submission deadline: 29 February 2008
> 
> PAPER SUBMISSION: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac4
> 
> ==================================
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 
> Commercial Web search engines offer fast search on huge amounts of  
> text, combined with increasingly clever ranking and data analysis  
> algorithms, but their content-centric services do not cater to the  
> needs of the computational linguistics and NLP communities.  The  
> leading theme of this workshop, the fourth in a row of highly  
> successful Web as Corpus meetings, is to find out how to combine the  
> power and scalability of modern search engine technology with  
> sophisticated linguistic annotation and query processing.
> 
> We invite papers on various topics concerning the use of Web  
> resources for corpus research and NLP applications, including (but  
> not limited to) the following:
> 
>     * linguistic Web crawler technology and Web corpus collection  
> projects
>     * applications of Web-derived corpora and other kinds of Web data
>     * how far does the "easy way" get you? (using search engines, or  
> Google's n-gram lists; we are particularly interested in a critical  
> discussion of the usefulness and limitations of such approaches)
>     * methods and tools for "cleaning" Web pages to turn them into a  
> corpus (contributors to this topic will be encouraged to participate  
> in the second CLEANEVAL competition to be held in 2009)
>     * automatic linguistic annotation of Web data: tokenisation, POS  
> tagging, lemmatisation, semantic tagging, etc. (established tools  
> often perform very poorly on Web data)
>     * search engine architectures for linguists: bringing linguistics  
> to commercial search engines, or high-performance search technology  
> to linguistics?
>     * search engine-related topics such as result ranking (e.g. how  
> to identify "typical" uses rather than returning 50 very similar  
> matches on the first page)
>     * duplicate detection, interactive query refinement, etc.
>     * reviews and clever uses of search engine APIs (Google, Yahoo,  
> Altavista, and in particular Microsoft's current generous LiveSearch  
> API)
> 
> This workshop is endorsed by the Special Interest Group on the Web as  
> Corpus (SIGWAC) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
> 
> SUBMISSION INFORMATION
> 
> Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished  
> work in the topic area of this workshop.  Submissions should follow  
> the format of LREC proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages,  
> including references.  We strongly recommend the use of LREC LaTeX or  
> Microsoft Word style files tailored for this year's conference.
> 
> Submissions are managed via EasyChair.org.  In order to submit a  
> paper, go to:
> 
> 	http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wac4
> 
> and login (or register an account with EasyChair if you don't have  
> one yet). After logging in, click 'New Submission' and fill in the  
> standard fields.
> 
> PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
> 
> Silvia Bernardini, U of Bologna, Italy
> Massimiliano Ciaramita, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
> Jesse de Does, INL, Netherlands
> Katrien Depuydt, INL, Netherlands
> Stefan Evert, U of Osnabrück, Germany
> Cédrick Fairon, UCLouvain, Belgium
> William Fletcher, U.S. Naval Academy, USA
> Gregory Grefenstette, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, France
> Péter Halácsy, Budapest U of Technology and Economics, Hungary
> Katja Hofmann, U of Amsterdam, Netherlands
> Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd, UK
> Igor Leturia, Elhuyar Fundazioa, Basque Country, Spain
> Phil Resnik, U of Maryland, College Park, USA
> Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis U, USA
> Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, U Gent, Belgium
> Klaus Schulz, LMU München, Germany
> Serge Sharoff, U of Leeds, UK
> Eros Zanchetta, U of Bologna, Italy
> 
> ORGANISING COMMITTEE
> 
> Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück
> Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing
> Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds
> 
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