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2012Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2012-06-24T21:00:09Z

SergeSharoff: New page: SIGWAC entered another year. The workshop in 2011 was a joint event with the Building and Using Comparable Corpora Workshop, which was held at ACL in Portland in June 2011. Kevin Knight (...

SIGWAC entered another year. The workshop in 2011 was a joint event with the Building and Using Comparable Corpora Workshop, which was held at ACL in Portland in June 2011. Kevin Knight (ISI, Univ of Southern California) was the invited speaker and this brought a surge of participants for the talk, more than 60. The regular papers were attended by about 20 participants.

The next workshop was co-located with WWW2012, April 2012. If computational linguistics is the parent discipline for this SIG, then web research,
as identified by the WWW conference, is the uncle who we don't see so often, but of whom we hear tales of travels and adventures and fortunes gained and lost, temples bedecked with gold and jewels but also dragons' dens. In this workshop we have met the uncle and learned more about the WWW community. We had about 20 participants at this workshop.

The next workshop will be co-located with the Corpus Linguistics Conference, which was the launchpad for the very first WAC workshop in 2005, before formation of the SIG in 2006. In the next few weeks there will be also a re-election for the Chair and Secretary of this SIG.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2010-06-15T16:30:40Z

SergeSharoff:

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 5 June 2010

SIGWAC had another successful year. The previous workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference. We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We had about 50 participants and nine papers.

The next WAC6 workshop was held on 5 June 2010 in Los Angeles (co-located with NAACL-HLT). It was the first time we moved the workshop out of Europe and this resulted in a smaller number of submissions (with only five papers accepted). Patrick Pantel (ISI, Univ of Southern California, and Microsoft Research) was the invited speaker. We had about 20 participants in the workshop.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2010-06-04T11:15:41Z

SergeSharoff:

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 5 June 2010

SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference. We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We had about 50 participants and nine papers.

The next WAC6 workshop was held on 5 June 2010 in Los Angeles (co-located with NAACL-HLT). It was the first time we moved the workshop out of Europe and this resulted in a smaller number of submissions (with only five papers accepted). Patrick Pantel (ISI, Univ of Southern California, and Microsoft Research) was the invited speaker. We had about 20 participants in the workshop.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2010-06-04T11:15:26Z

SergeSharoff:

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 2 June 2010

SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference. We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We had about 50 participants and nine papers.

The next WAC6 workshop was held on 5 June 2010 in Los Angeles (co-located with NAACL-HLT). It was the first time we moved the workshop out of Europe and this resulted in a smaller number of submissions (with only five papers accepted). Patrick Pantel (ISI, Univ of Southern California, and Microsoft Research) was the invited speaker. We had about 20 participants in the workshop.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2010-06-02T14:05:56Z

SergeSharoff:

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 2 June 2010

SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference. We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We had about 50 participants and nine papers.

The next WAC6 workshop will be co-located with NAACL-HLT in Los Angeles on 5 June 2010. It was the first time we moved the workshop out of Europe and this resulted in a smaller number of submissions (with only five papers accepted). We expect about 20 participants for the workshop.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC

2010-06-02T14:05:32Z

SergeSharoff: New page: SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 24 June 2009 SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain...

SIGWAC report to ACL Board for year 2009-2010 Serge Sharoff 24 June 2009

SIGWAC had another successful year. The last workshop (WAC5) was held on 7 September 2009 in San Sebastian, Spain, co-located with SEPLN, the Spanish NLP conference. We have obtained funding for an invited speaker and invited Dekang Lin from Google to talk on "Unsupervised acquisition of lexical knowledge from the Web". We had about 50 participants and nine papers.

The next WAC6 workshop will be co-located with NAACL-HLT in Los Angeles on 5 June 2010. It was the first time we moved the workshop out of Europe and this resulted in a smaller number of submissions (with only five papers accepted). We expect about 20 participants for the workshop.