2020Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

The SIGSEM board

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Gemma Boleda (Information Officer); Eduard Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

Past and future elections

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election is scheduled for 2020.

Members

As of July 1, 2020, SIGSEM has around 870 members.

Website

There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, http://www.sigsem.org/, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.

Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS

IWCS 2019, the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place May 23-27 in Gothenburg, Sweden. See https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home.

The next IWCS is scheduled for 2021.

Additional endorsed events in 2020

Probability and Meaning (PaM), https://sites.google.com/view/pam2020/ Gothenburg, Sweden, October 14-16,2020.

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA), https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma20/ Waltham, Massachusetts, July 11-July 17, 2020. Workshop @ NASSLLI 2020.

GeCKo symposium: Integrating Generic and Contextual Knowledge, https://sites.google.com/view/gecko2020 Barcelona, Spain, May 18 2020.