2010Q3 Reports: SIGWAC - Revision history

SergeSharoff at 16:30, 15 June 2010

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

SergeSharoff at 11:15, 4 June 2010

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

SergeSharoff at 11:15, 4 June 2010

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	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.		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.		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.

SergeSharoff at 14:05, 2 June 2010

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

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...

2010-06-02T14:05:32Z

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...

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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.