[Sigwac] CFP: WAC5, Web as Corpus Workshop, San Sebastian, Spain, September 7, 2009

[Serge Sharoff]

With apologies for cross-posting.
The deadline for submissions is 17 April, 2009

Call for Papers
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
      * 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 Live
        Search API)

The workshop will be held on 7 September, 2009, in San Sebastian,
preceding SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference:
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/sepln2009/

We particularly welcome submissions on the use of languages other than
English. One of the bottlenecks in corpus linguistic research on a
particular language consists in availability of corpora for this
language: translation studies for, say, Ukrainian or Vietnamese are
limited by the existence of diverse corpora for these languages. The Web
gives the opportunity to alleviate this bottleneck, as millions of
Ukrainian or Vietnamese texts are available on the Web, but we still do
not know many parameters of what is there and how useful it is for
translation, language teaching, linguistics research, etc.


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Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work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 ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
references. We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX or Microsoft Word
style files tailored for this year's conference
(http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/main/authors/stylefiles/). 

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Submission and fill in the standard fields. 

More information about the workshop will be available from our ACL
SIGWAC webpage:http://www.sigwac.org.uk/