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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, either for language research or language modelling
* to serve as a communication channel for exchanging news, findings, experience in using web as a source of linguistic data
* to endorse projects, resources and technologies that are considered examples of good practice or state-of-the-art
* to sponsor meetings and workshops on topics related to using the web as source of linguistic data

== Officers ==

* Co-Chair: Nikola Ljubešić (email: nikola.ljubesic(at)ijs.si)
* Co-Chair: Benoît Sagot (email: benoit.sagot(at)inria.fr)
* Co-Secretary: Veronika Laippala (mavela(at)utu.fi)
* Co-Secretary: Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz(at)dfki.de)

The current SIGWAC officers' term is January 2023 - December 2025.

== Elections ==

The current officers were elected in the elections held in December 2022.

== Activities ==

The new officers are focusing on:

* Improving the visibility of the SIG (i.e., increasing the number of its members) by endorsing prominent projects, resources, technologies
* Encouraging the discussion on most pressing topics of using the web as a source of linguistic data, inter alia technical aspects (JavaScript, continuous crawling etc.), legal aspects (IPR etc.), usability aspects (automatic enrichment), and especially, the future of web as a source of human linguistic data in light of generative AI technologies
* Endorsing events in the first part of their term, while in the second part SIG-focused workshops will quite likely be held

== Website ==

The website of the SIG is still https://www.sigwac.org.uk. The newly elected officers are working on further updating its content.

== Membership ==

Membership of the SIG is measured through the mailing list subscription. At this point there are 195 mailing list subscriptions.

2023Q3 Reports: SIGWAC - Revision history

NikolaLjubesic: Created page with "= 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..."

NikolaLjubesic: Created page with "= 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..."