Web as Corpus Links

• Web as Corpus Community site on SourceForge
  

collaborative repository for data, software and links to Web as Corpus sites set up by Stefan Evert and co-administered by various members of the WaC community

• WaC 6: 6th Web as Corpus Workshop, in association with NAACL-HLT in Los Angeles, 5-6 June 2010
  Workshop site

• WaC 5: 5th Web as Corpus Workshop, as part of SEPLN 09, Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain, 7 September 2009
  Workshop site | Proceedings

• WaC 4: 4th Web as Corpus Workshop – Can we beat Google?, as part of LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008
  Conference site | Proceedings

• WaC 3 / CLEANEVAL, Louvain-la-Neuve, B, 15-16 September 2007
  Conference site | Proceedings | CLEANEVAL Summary Report

• WaC 2, EACL, Trento, Italy, April 2006
  Conference site | Proceedings (search for 'web as corpus')

• WaC 1, Corpus Linguistics conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005
  Conference site

• ACL SIGWAC Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) on Web as Corpus, organizer of the Web as Corpus workshop series

• ACL SIGWAC mailing list | archives
• CLEANEVAL

• Web Genre Wiki new Nov 07

• WaCky Project wiki inactive

• KWiCFinder desktop Web concordancer
• Linguist's Search Engine search with parser (temporarily? offline)
• SouthEast Asian Language Web Corpus
• WebAsCorpus.org Web Concordancer (34 languages)
• WebCONC
• WebCorp

• Leeds collection of Internet corpora
  (English, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)
• WebAsCorpus.org (English, limited Dutch & Afrikaans)

• Linggle wildcard search for collocates and examples based on Google 1T 2-grams

*FLAX Web Phrases Described in
Wu, S., Witten, I. H. & Franken, M. (2010). Utilizing lexical data from a web-derived corpus to expand productive collocation knowledge. ReCALL, 22(1), 83–102.
Links to other modules

• Corpus building for minority languages Kevin Scannell's Web crawling software and site exploiting the diversity of the Web for over 400 under-resourced languages.

• BootCat
• Heritrix Crawler (Web Archive)
• Jaguar extracts specialized corpora from the web and analyzes various lexical statistics; runs and saves corpora on developer's server
• GrosMoteur Web concordancer; supports either querying Yahoo! or crawling the Web; cross-platform (Python)

• Baroni, Marco and Bernardini, Silvia (eds.) 2006. WaCky! Working papers on the Web as Corpus. Bologna: GEDIT. incorporates papers from WaC 1 2005

• Gatto, Maristella 2009. From Body to Web. An Introduction to the Web as Corpus. Roma - Bari: Laterza University Press Online.
  pre-publication light version (6.5 MB, no registration required) | definitive version (51 MB, requires registration)

• AltSearchEngines.com reviews specialized and non-English SEs
• multilingual-search.com discusses issues and developments in non-English search
• abondance.com tracks the European search market from a French perspective