[Sigwac] Call for Participation: 8th Web as Corpus Workshop (22 July 2013, Lancaster, UK)

[Prof. Dr. Stefan Evert]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

   8th Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC-8)
   Endorsed by ACL SIGWAC
   Hosted by the Corpus Linguistics 2013 Conference

   Monday, 22 July 2013 (Lancaster, UK)

** Note that registration for the workshop and the main conference closes on SUNDAY, JUNE 30. **
Registration URL: http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/register.php

Further details can be found on the workshop homepage at

   http://sigwac.org.uk/wiki/WAC8

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Web corpora and other Web-derived data have become a gold mine for corpus linguistics and natural language processing. The Web is an easy source of unprecedented amounts of linguistic data from a broad range of registers and text types. However, a collection of Web pages is not immediately suitable for exploration in the same way a traditional corpus is.

Since the first Web as Corpus Workshop organised at the Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, a highly successful series of yearly Web as Corpus workshops provides a venue for interested researchers to meet, share ideas and discuss the problems and possibilities of compiling and using Web corpora. After a stronger focus on application-oriented natural language processing and Web technology in recent years – with workshops taking place at NAACL-HLT 2010, 2011 and WWW 2012 – the 8th Web as Corpus Workshop returns to its roots in the corpus linguistics community.

Accordingly, the leading theme of this workshop is the application of Web data in language research, including linguistic evaluation of Web-derived corpora as well as strategies and tools for high-quality automatic annotation of Web text. The workshop brings together presentations on all aspects of building, using and evaluating Web corpora, with a particular focus on the following topics:

* applications of Web corpora and other Web-derived data sets for language research
* automatic linguistic annotation of Web data such as tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatisation and semantic tagging (the accuracy of currently available off-the-shelf tools is still unsatisfactory for many types of Web data)
* critical exploration of the characteristics of Web data from a linguistic perspective and its applicability to language research
* presentation of Web corpus collection projects or software tools required for some part of this process (crawling, filtering, de-duplication, language identification, indexing, ...)

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PROGRAMME

09:00 Akshay Minocha, Siva Reddy and Adam Kilgarriff -- Feed Corpus: An Ever Growing Up-to-date Corpus
09:30 Stephen Wattam, Paul Rayson and Damon Berridge -- LWAC: Longitudinal Web-as-Corpus Sampling
10:00 Roland Schäfer, Adrien Barbaresi and Felix Bildhauer -- The Good, the Bad, and the Hazy: Design Decisions in Web Corpus Construction
10:30 Jesse Egbert and Douglas Biber -- Developing a User-based Method of Web Register Classification

11:00 - 11:30	Tea Break 	

11:30 Adam Kilgarriff and Vít Suchomel -- Web Spam
12:00 David Lutz, Parry Cadwallader and Mats Rooth -- A web application for filtering and annotating web speech data
12:30 Sarah Schulz, Verena Lyding and Lionel Nicolas -- STirWaC - Compiling a diverse corpus based on texts from the web for South Tyrolean German

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch 	

14:00 Alexander Piperski, Vladimir Belikov, Nikolay Kopylov, Vladimir Selegey and Serge Sharoff -- Big and diverse is beautiful: A large corpus of Russian to study linguistic variation
14:30 Adriano Ferraresi and Silvia Bernardini -- The academic Web-as-Corpus
15:00 Silke Scheible and Sabine Schulte Im Walde -- A Compact but Linguistically Detailed Database for German Verb Subcategorisation relying on Dependency Parses from a Web Corpus

15:30 - 16:00	Tea Break 	

16:00 Andrew Brindle -- Thug breaks man's jaw: A Corpus Analysis of Responses to Interpersonal Street Violence
16:30 Colleen Crangle -- A web-based model of semantic relatedness and the analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) data
17:00 Discussion and wrap-up

18:00 Pub

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Looking forward to seeing you at the workshop,
The organising committee.

Stefan Evert, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Egon Stemle, European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC)
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University


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