2021Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

The SIGSEM board

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (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 will be scheduled this year (2021).

Members

As of June 30, 2021, SIGSEM has around 880 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 2021, the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place June 16-18 2021 in Groningen, The Netherlands. See https://iwcs2021.github.io/.

The next IWCS is scheduled for 2023.

Additional endorsed events in 2021

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA), https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma21/, June 14-18, 2021.

Semdial 2021 - The Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: https://semdial2021.ling.uni-potsdam.de/, University of Potsdam, Sep 20-22, 2021.