SIGFSM

SIGFSM — ACL SIG on Finite-State Methods

SIGFSM is a newly approved ACL SIG.

See also SIGFSM.

Events

• FSMNLP 2011 / CIAA 2011 in Blois, France
  • Prior FSMNLP workshops: Pretoria (2009), Ispra (2008), Potsdam (2007), Helsinki (2005), Budapest (2003), Helsinki (2001), Ankara (1998), Budapest (1996)
• Participation to related meetings/events encouraged: SIGMORPHON, ATANLP, WATA, CIAA, ...

Elected officers (Spring 2010 - Spring 2012)

• elected President: Anssi Yli-Jyrä
• elected Treasurer: Treasurer: Thomas Hanneforth
• elected Secretary: Secretary: Laurette Pretorius

Other representatives

• The non-elected posts are appointed by the President, Treasurer and Secretary after hearing the SIG members.

• International Advisory Committee (this committee has been nominated by the elected officers):
  • Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
  • Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
  • Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
  • Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
  • András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
  • Andreas Maletti (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
  • Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  • Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
  • Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
  • Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
  • the elected officers

• appointed Resource Manager
  • (this position is to be filled)
• appointed Liaison Representative
  • 2009: Jason Eisner
  • 2010: Anssi Yli-Jyrä
  • 2011: (this position is to be filled with someone attending ACL 2011)

Resources

• There is a mailing list (contact Thomas Hanneforth)
• Planned: Workshop proceedings to the ACL Anthology (we wait permissions from publishers)
• Planned: Bibliography