SIGPARSE Annual Report, July 2006
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The main aim of SIGPARSE is to ensure the continuity of the biennial 
`International Workshop on Parsing Technologies' (IWPT) series. The last 
workshop in this series was the one with number , which was held in 
October 2005 in Vancouver, Canada. For the first time, IWPT was organized 
not as a standalone workshop but as a satellite event of a large 
conference, in this case the joint Human Language Technology/Empirical 
Methods in NLP (HLT/EMNLP) conference. This combination worked very well, 
both from a logistic point of view and for participation. IWPT 2005 was 
a quite succesful workshop both in terms of number of participants 
and quality of submitted papers. Invited speakers were Mari Ostendorf 
and Jill Burstein. Rob Malouf was program chair, Alon Lavie logistic 
arrangements chair, and Harry Bunt general chair.

It was decided to change the name from Workshop to Conference, and to 
have the next (10th) one in 2007 Europe. Paola Marlo agreed to be the 
program chair. We will look for an opportunity to have ICPT 2007 in 
again in conjunction with a large conference.

To facilitate its operation and the communication in the parsing community, 
a SIGPARSE website continues to be maintained at the University of Twente 
by Hendri Hondorp, and a mailing list at CMU operated by by Kenji Sagae.


Harry Bunt, July 2006.