2022Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2022

The SIGSEM board

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer till end of 2021); Eduard Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

Past and future elections

Elections were held in the spring of 2017.

We have started the election process: nomination will be colleted till the 20th of August and votes will be casted till the 15th of October 2022.

Members

As of June 30, 2022, SIGSEM has around 512 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. Nancy is a strong candidate to host the event.

Additional endorsed events in 2022

CLASP annual conference on (Dis)embodiment, September 14-16 2022, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA) at ESSLLI, August 8-12 2022.

Computing Semantics with Types, Frames and Related Structures, at ESSLLI 2021 (post-hoc endorsment)