Roland Schäfer studied Theoretical and Indo-European Linguistics as well as Japanese Linguistics at Marburg and Bochum Universities. He completed his doctorate Arguments and Adjuncts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface in 2008 at Gottingen University, supervised by Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckardt. Since then, he has been working as a research assistant at Freie Universitat Berlin, mainly doing corpus-based research on semantic and morpho-syntactic phenomena. In 2011, he started working on the COW ("Corpora from the Web") project with Felix Bildhauer. His teaching experience covers a wide range of topics including Theoretical and Corpus Linguistics, English and German Linguistics, as well as Computational Linguistics.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Web Corpora.- Data Collection.- Post-Processing.- Linguistic Processing.- Corpus Evaluation and Comparison.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.

Roland Schäfer studied Theoretical and Indo-European Linguistics as well as Japanese Linguistics at Marburg and Bochum Universities. He completed his doctorate Arguments and Adjuncts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface in 2008 at Gottingen University, supervised by Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckardt. Since then, he has been working as a research assistant at Freie Universitat Berlin, mainly doing corpus-based research on semantic and morpho-syntactic phenomena. In 2011, he started working on the COW ("Corpora from the Web") project with Felix Bildhauer. His teaching experience covers a wide range of topics including Theoretical and Corpus Linguistics, English and German Linguistics, as well as Computational Linguistics.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Web Corpora.- Data Collection.- Post-Processing.- Linguistic Processing.- Corpus Evaluation and Comparison.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.

Roland Schäfer studied Theoretical and Indo-European Linguistics as well as Japanese Linguistics at Marburg and Bochum Universities. He completed his doctorate Arguments and Adjuncts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface in 2008 at Gottingen University, supervised by Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckardt. Since then, he has been working as a research assistant at Freie Universitat Berlin, mainly doing corpus-based research on semantic and morpho-syntactic phenomena. In 2011, he started working on the COW ("Corpora from the Web") project with Felix Bildhauer. His teaching experience covers a wide range of topics including Theoretical and Corpus Linguistics, English and German Linguistics, as well as Computational Linguistics.

• Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Web Corpora.- Data Collection.- Post-Processing.- Linguistic Processing.- Corpus Evaluation and Comparison.- Bibliography.- Authors' Biographies.