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2022Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2022-07-22T11:49:53Z

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= The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus. =

== Objectives ==

* to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
* to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
* to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.

== Officers ==

* Chair: Roland Schäfer (email: schaefer(at)hu-berlin.de) – in office provisionally until the next election
* Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu) – in office provisionally until the next election

The current SIGWAC officers' term was 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021.

== Events ==

WAC-XIII was postponed to 2023, depending on the further developments surrounding the pandemic.

As the current officers' term has already ended in 2021, late elections will be held in 2022 via the SIGWAC mailing list. The current officials will not run again.

User:Rsling

2021-08-08T10:52:27Z

Rsling:

== Roland Schäfer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ==

* [http://rolandschaefer.net personal website]
* [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-7874 ORCID]
* [https://www.webcorpora.org web corpus access]
* [https://corporafromtheweb.org web corpus info]

== Career and Research ==

* chairman of [https://www.sigwac.org.uk/ ACL SIGWAC] since 2015
* organizer of ACL SIGWAC workshops and editor of the corresponding proceedings in 2014, 2016, and 2020
* creator of the [https://corporafromtheweb.org COW web corpora] since 2012 – major free alternative to the commercial SketchEngine web corpora
* linguist, working on probabilistic grammar (mostly German)
* currently employed as a researcher at [https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin working on probabilistic register modelling, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1412, 416591334]

User:Rsling

2021-08-08T10:51:25Z

Rsling:

== Roland Schäfer ==

* [http://rolandschaefer.net personal website]
* [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-7874 ORCID]
* [https://www.webcorpora.org web corpus access]
* [https://corporafromtheweb.org web corpus info]

== Career and Research ==

* chairman of [https://www.sigwac.org.uk/ ACL SIGWAC] since 2015
* organizer of ACL SIGWAC workshops and editor of the corresponding proceedings in 2014, 2016, and 2020
* creator of the [https://corporafromtheweb.org COW web corpora] since 2012 – major free alternative to the commercial SketchEngine web corpora
* linguist, working on probabilistic grammar (mostly German)
* currently employed as a researcher at [https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin working on probabilistic register modelling, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1412, 416591334]

2021Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2021-08-08T10:41:42Z

= The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus. =

== Objectives ==

* to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
* to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
* to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.

== Officers ==

* Chair: Roland Schäfer (email: schaefer(at)hu-berlin.de) – in office provisionally until the August 2021 election
* Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu) – in office provisionally until the August 2021 election

The current SIGWAC officers' term is 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021.

== Events ==

After WAC-XII had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, WAC-XIII was postponed to 2022 or 2023, depending on the further developments surrounding the pandemic. Funding for WAC-XIII might be available from CRC 1412 "Register" (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG, German Research Foundation] – SFB 1412, 416591334) through the SIGWAC chairman.

As the current officers' term ends this year, elections will be held in August 2022 via the SIGWAC mailing list. The chairman will run for office again, but alternative candidates will be invited in due time.

User:Rsling

2021-08-08T10:29:57Z

Rsling:

– Chairman of ACL SIGWAC (https://www.sigwac.org.uk/) since 2015

– Organizer of ACL SIGWAC workshops and editor or corrsponding proceedings in 2014 and 2016

– Creator of the COW web corpora since 2012 – major free alternative to the commercial SketchEngine web corpora

– Currently employed as a researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin working on probabilistic register modelling, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1412, 416591334

User:Rsling

2021-08-08T10:29:19Z

Rsling:

– Chairman of ACL SIGWAC (https://www.sigwac.org.uk/) since 2015.

– Organizer of ACL SIGWAC workshops and editor or corrsponding proceedings in 2014 and 2016.

– Creator of the COW web corpora since 2012, which form the major free counterpoint to the commercial SketchEngine web corpora.

– Currently employed as a researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin working on probabilistic register modelling, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1412, 416591334

2020Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2020-06-11T18:34:57Z

= The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus. =

== Objectives ==

* to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
* to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
* to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.

== Officers ==

* Chair: Roland Schäfer (email: schaefer(at)hu-berlin.de)
* Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu)

The current SIGWAC officers' term is 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021.

== Events ==

The 12th Web as Corpus Workshop was planned to be co-located with LREC in Marseille. The proposal written by the workshop organisers Adrien Barbaresi (BBAW, Berlin, Germany), Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim, Germany), Roland Schäfer (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany), Egon Stemle (EURAC, Bolzano, Italy) was accepted by the LREC organisers, and the workshop was set to take place on Saturday, 16 May 2020. After the cancellation of LREC and all satellite events due to the Covid-19 outbreak, it was decided to publish the proceedings but not have an online workshop. Nine papers were published and are available in the [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/lrec-2020/#2020-wac-1 ACL Anthology].

WAC workshops will most likely be held bi-annually in the future, such that the next one WAC-XIII will take place in 2022.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2019-08-15T17:57:49Z

= The Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus. =

== Objectives ==

* to promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right;
* to provide members of the ACL with a special interest in the web-as-corpus with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments and other matters of interest;
* to sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile.

== Officers ==

* Chair: Roland Schäfer (email: roland.schaefer(at)fu-berlin.de)
* Secretary: Egon W. Stemle (email: egon.stemle(at)eurac.edu)

The current SIGWAC officers term is 01 August 2018 – 31 July 2021

== Events ==

After the last SIGWAC workshop (WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics 2017, Birmingham, UK, 24–27 July 2017), WAC-XII is currently being organised (proposal to be submitted to a major langage technology conference) by the organisers: Adrien Barbaresi (BBAW, Berlin, Germany), Felix Bildhauer (IDS Mannheim, Germany), Roland Schäfer (FU Berlin, Germany), Egon Stemle (EURAC, Bolzano, Italy). WAC-XII is expected to take place in 2020.