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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//)) 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 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]], and 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:+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:
  
 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}}). 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}}).
  
-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]] section+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.
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-__**NEW**__: we've recently added PukWaC, WaCkypedia_EN and frWaC to our pool of corpus resources. Check the [[corpora|Corpora]] section for further details+
  
 The project (including this website) is currently being sponsored by the [[LiMiNe]] project. The project (including this website) is currently being sponsored by the [[LiMiNe]] project.
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-The old version of this website is still available [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/old_wiki|here]]. 
  
 [[staff_only:|Private section]] [[staff_only:|Private section]]
  
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