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As such, SIGWAC has decided to separate our topics of interest in three different aspects: 147</p> 148<h3 class="section" id="TechnicalAspects">Technical Aspects</h3> 149<ul><li>Filtering strategies for web data in LLM pre-training. 150</li><li>Impact of web data in the pre-training data mix of LLMs. 151</li><li>Crawling and ranking. 152</li><li>Construction of web graphs. 153</li><li>Language identification, multilinguality, and Web as a Corpus for low resource languages. 154</li><li>Web indexing, information retrieval and LLM application in document representations. 155</li><li>Semantic web and automatic annotation of multilingual web data. 156</li></ul><h3 class="section" id="LegalAspects">Legal Aspects</h3> 157<ul><li>Intellectual Property and licensing of Web data. 158</li><li>Robot exclusion protocol and other opt-out methods for AI training. 159</li><li>Privacy preservation in web corpora, automatic PII detection and redaction. 160</li><li>Study and application of the TDM directive in the EU. 161</li><li>Study and application of the AI act in the EU. 162</li><li>Scope of data usage. 163</li></ul><h3 class="section" id="Societalaspects">Societal aspects</h3> 164<ul><li>Socio-linguistic studies of web data. 165</li><li>Web-graph as a tool for web corpora exploration in a multidisciplinary setting. 166</li><li>Study of bias and toxicity in web corpora. 167</li><li>Study of illegal content prevalence in web corpora. 168</li><li>Web corpora as a means to promote multilingualism and multiculturalism. 169</li></ul><p> 170Beyond these topics of interest we also aim to: 171</p> 172<ul><li>Promote interest in the use of the web as a source of linguistic data, and as an object of study in its own right; 173</li><li>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 (e.g. the upcoming crisis on web data authenticity given the recent staggering improvements in generative large language models); 174</li><li>Sponsor meetings and workshops on the web as corpus that appear to be timely and worthwhile. 175</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="Officers">Officers</h2> 176<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://nljubesi.github.io"><span class="icon">â</span>Nikola LjubeÅ¡iÄ</a> (co-president) 177</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://alpage.inria.fr/~sagot/"><span class="icon">â</span>Benoît Sagot</a> (co-president) 178</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.utu.fi/en/people/veronika-laippala"><span class="icon">â</span>Veronika Laippala</a> (co-secretary) 179</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://portizs.eu"><span class="icon">â</span>Pedro Ortiz Suarez</a> (co-secretary) 180</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="Resources">Resources</h2> 181<h3 class="section" id="Corpora">Corpora</h3> 182<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://commoncrawl.org"><span class="icon">â</span>CommonCrawl</a> 183</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://hplt-project.org"><span class="icon">â</span>HPLT</a> 184</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://oscar-project.org"><span class="icon">â</span>OSCAR</a> 185</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://paracrawl.eu"><span class="icon">â</span>ParaCrawl</a> 186</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://macocu.eu"><span class="icon">â</span>MaCoCu</a> 187</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.clarin.si/info/new-classla-web-corpora-and-tutorial-on-usage-of-the-corpora-via-clarin-si-concordancers/"><span class="icon">â</span>CLASSLA South Slavic web corpora</a> 188</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://sketch.juls.savba.sk/aranea_about/"><span class="icon">â</span>Aranea web corpora</a> 189</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.clarin.si/noske/wacs.cgi/"><span class="icon">â</span>CLARIN.SI web corpora</a> 190</li><li>
190<a class="ext-link" href="http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/internet.html"><span class="icon">â</span>University of Leeds (CTS) web corpora</a> 191</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/"><span class="icon">â</span>Web corpora on Sketchengine (commercial product)</a> 192</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/doku.php?id=start"><span class="icon">â</span>WaCKy corpora</a> 193</li></ul><h3 class="section" id="Technologies">Technologies</h3> 194<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://corpus.tools"><span class="icon">â</span>A Masaryk University and Lexical Computing list of tools for harvesting and processing web data</a> 195</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-classifier"><span class="icon">â</span>The XGENRE multilingual text genre classifier</a> 196</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://github.com/TurkuNLP/multilingual-register-labeling"><span class="icon">â</span>Massively Multilingual Modeling of Web Registers by TurkuNLP</a> 197</li></ul><h3 class="section" id="Additionalinformation">Additional information</h3> 198<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-02152-7"><span class="icon">â</span>Schäfer and Bildhauer's web corpus book</a> 199</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://webascorpus.sf.net/"><span class="icon">â</span>Stephanie Evert's WAC website</a> 200</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://sigwac.org.uk/cleaneval"><span class="icon">â</span>CLEANEVAL</a>, a competition for cleaning webpages 201</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="Meetings">Meetings</h2> 202<ul><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC-XII">WAC-XII</a> at <a class="ext-link" href="https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org"><span class="icon">â</span>LREC 2020</a>, Marseille, France, 16 May 2020⦠<span style="color: #FF0000">CANCELLED due to Covid-19 outbreak</span> but proceedings have been published! 203</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC-XI">WAC-XI</a> at <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/2017/cl2017/index.aspx"><span class="icon">â</span>Corpus Linguistics 2017</a>, Birmingham, UK, 24-27 July 2017 204</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC-X">WAC-X</a> at <a class="ext-link" href="http://acl2016.org/"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL 2016</a>, Berlin, Germany, 12 August 2016 205</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/wac2015">WAC@eLex2015</a>, In 2015 we will meet at eLex, Herstmonceux Castle, UK, 10 August 2015 206</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC9">WAC9</a>, at <a class="ext-link" href="http://eacl2014.org/"><span class="icon">â</span>EACL 2014</a>, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-27 April 2014 207</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC8">WAC8</a>, at <a class="ext-link" href="http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/cl2013/"><span class="icon">â</span>Corpus Linguistics 2013</a>, Lancaster, UK, 22 July 2013 208</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC7">WAC7</a>, at <a class="ext-link" href="http://www2012.wwwconference.org/"><span class="icon">â</span>WWW12</a>, Lyon, France, 17 April 2012 209</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.limsi.fr/~pz/bucc2011-comparable-corpora/"><span class="icon">â</span>BUCC, Building and Using Comparable Corpora, Portland, Oregon, 24 June 2011</a>, In 2011 we will meet at the BUCC workshop at <a class="ext-link" href="http://www.acl2011.org/"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL2011</a> 210</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC6">WAC6</a>, at NAACL-HLT, Los Angeles, USA, 5 June 2010: programme <a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC6Programme">here</a> 211</li><li><a class="wiki" href="/wiki/WAC5">WAC5</a>, at SPLN, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain, 7 September 2009 212</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://webascorpus.sourceforge.net/PHITE.php?sitesig=CONF&page=CONF_40_WAC-4___lb__2008__rb__"><span class="icon">â</span>WAC4 at LREC, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008</a> 213</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be/wac3"><span class="icon">â</span>WAC3, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 15-16 September 2007 </a> 214</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_eacl06.html"><span class="icon">â</span>WAC2, at EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006</a> 215</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/web_as_corpus_cl05.html"><span class="icon">â</span>WAC1, at Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005</a> 216</li></ul><h2 class="section" id="ACLSIGWACannualreports">ACL SIGWAC annual reports</h2> 217<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2024Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2024 Q3 report</a> 218</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2023Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2023 Q3 report</a> 219</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2021Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2021 Q3 report</a> 220</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2020Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2020 Q3 report</a> 221</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2019 Q3 report</a> 222</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2018Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2018 Q3 report</a> 223</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2016Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2016 Q3 report</a> 224</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2015Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2015 Q3 report</a> 225</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2014Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2014 Q3 report</a> 226</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2013Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2013 Q3 report</a> 227</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2012Q3_Reports:_SIGWAC"><span class="icon">â</span>ACL SIGWAC 2012 Q3 report</a> 228</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Reports"><span class="icon">â</span>Older reports...</a> 229</li></ul></div> 230 <div class="trac-modifiedby">
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