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WaC-13 2026
13th Web-as-Corpus Workshop
The 13th Web-as-Corpus Workshop (WaC-13) is co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, and provides a multidisciplinary forum for research on the creation, analysis, and responsible use of web corpora, with a focus on multilingual data and less-resourced languages. The workshop addresses challenges in web-scale data for AI, including quality, representativeness, ethics, and data-centric approaches to language modeling.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
August 18, 2026
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Full paperKey deadline
August 18, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Long papers
8 pages
Research areas in scope
01
Topics of Interest
Creation and evaluation of high-quality datasets for foundation models (data collection, filtering, enrichment, language identification)Use of web data in empirical linguistic researchAnalysis of web-scale corpora for quality, representativeness, and societal insightsEthical and legal aspects of collecting, sharing, and using web data
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must follow the ARR submission requirements
- There is no anonymity period requirement
- Papers must use the official ACL style template
- Authors may not modify the ACL style files or use templates designed for other conferences
- Both archival (ACL Anthology) and non-archival submissions are allowed
- Submissions can be made through ARR commitment or direct submission via openreview.net
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026