@inproceedings{schafer-2016-commoncow,
title = "{C}ommon{COW}: Massively Huge Web Corpora from {C}ommon{C}rawl Data and a Method to Distribute them Freely under Restrictive {EU} Copyright Laws",
author = {Sch{\"a}fer, Roland},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Grobelnik, Marko and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, Helene and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'16)",
month = may,
year = "2016",
address = "Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/L16-1712",
pages = "4500--4504",
abstract = "In this paper, I describe a method of creating massively huge web corpora from the CommonCrawl data sets and redistributing the resulting annotations in a stand-off format. Current EU (and especially German) copyright legislation categorically forbids the redistribution of downloaded material without express prior permission by the authors. Therefore, such stand-off annotations (or other derivates) are the only format in which European researchers (like myself) are allowed to re-distribute the respective corpora. In order to make the full corpora available to the public despite such restrictions, the stand-off format presented here allows anybody to locally reconstruct the full corpora with the least possible computational effort.",
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%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Grobelnik, Marko
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Helene
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16)
%D 2016
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Portorož, Slovenia
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%P 4500-4504
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[CommonCOW: Massively Huge Web Corpora from CommonCrawl Data and a Method to Distribute them Freely under Restrictive EU Copyright Laws](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1712) (Schäfer, LREC 2016)
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