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-====== WaCky ======
+====== WaCky - The Web-As-Corpus Kool Yinitiative ======
 Welcome to WaCky! ((the acronym stands for //**W**eb-**a**s-**C**orpus **k**ool **y**nitiative//))
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 We try to keep everything very laid-back and flexible (minimal constraint on data representation, programming language, etc.) to make it easier for people with different backgrounds and goals to use our resources and/or contribute to the project.
-We built a few [[corpora]] you can [[download]], in the near future we'll have a web interface for direct online use of the corpora. While we wait for that (and the documentation), we described in great detail the procedure we followed to create our corpora in the paper {{papers:wacky_2008.pdf|"The WaCky Wide Web: A Collection of Very Large Linguistically Processed Web-Crawled Corpora"}}, where we also present a qualitative evaluation of our resources.
+We built a few [[corpora]] you can [[download|download or use directly]], we
+described in great detail the procedure we followed to create our first corpora (DeWaC, UkWaC and ItWaC) in the paper:
-The project (including this website) is currently being sponsored by the [[LiMiNe]] project.
+M. Baroni, S. Bernardini, A. Ferraresi and E. Zanchetta. 2009. The WaCky Wide Web: A Collection of Very Large Linguistically Processed Web-Crawled Corpora. //Language Resources and Evaluation// 43 (3): 209-226. ({{:papers:wacky_2008.pdf|PDF}}).
-The old version of this website is still available [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/old_wiki|here]].
+There, we also present a qualitative evaluation of our resources. Please cite this article when using our corpora, or any of the materials we are making available in the [[download|Download/Use]] section.
+The project (including this website) is currently being sponsored by the [[LiMiNe]] project.
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