SIGWAC report to ACL
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23 May 2007

SIGWAC

1) now has an 18-strong committee. 

2) will hold its third workshop (WAC3)in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-16 
September, (with an invited speaker supported by ACL.) Co-chairs: Cedrick Fairon 
and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

3) is organising the first CLEANEVAL - shared task and competitive evaluation on 
turning arbitrary web pages into clean text.  This will take place in June 2007 
with results discussed at WAC3 in Belgium in September.

4) has developed a proposal for ACL to host a “linguistic search engine”: 
proposal to follow to the ACL committee separately. 


Adam Kilgarriff
Chair