2012Q3 Reports: SIGFSM

Temporary Disclaimer

This version of the report is not yet official. A few details have to be added or validated. The following details and plans for actions are missing:

• Financial report
• Membership report (count, change)
• Recruitment of new SIGFSM members (in FSMNLP 2011 and ATANLP 2012)
• Web resources home page with link to the constitution and the mailing list information
• Status of old FSMNLP proceedings in the ACL anthology
• Possible changes in the IAB.

Membership

In 2012, the membership count of the SIGFSM is XXXXX members.

Officers

The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:

• Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
• Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
• Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

Other Positions:

• Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
• Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
• Web Site Resource Manager: N/A
• Web Content Resource Manager: N/A

SIGFSM Business Meeting and International Advisory Committee

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 by the president and they are to continue at this position for (at least) the year 2012 by default.

• Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
• Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
• Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland, 2012-)
• Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
• Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
• András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
• Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• 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

Events and Publications

FSMNLP

• FSMNLP 2011 was organized in Blois, France, jointly with CIAA 2011 (Conference on Implementation and Applications of Automata) because the organizers and the dates of both events were close enough. 14 long and 3 short papers have been accepted to FSMNLP 2011. In terms of participation, the CIAA/FSMNLP 2011 in Blois was a very successful event: [1] (see the picture). Many CIAA 2011 attendees participated both conferences.

• The final FSMNLP 2011 proceedings appeared in the ACL Anthology at http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/sigfsm.html .

SIGFSM Business Meetings

• A FSMNLP/SIGFSM business meeting in Blois discussed two proposals for the future venues. The International Advisory Board later confirmed the future plans: FSMNLP 2012 in Donostia -- San Sebastian, Spain and FSMNLP 2013 in St. Andrews, UK.

• There were repeated expressions of shared interest towards a joint workshop with SIGFSM and SIGMORPHON. It was concluded that such plans would be best realized in an ACL hosted main conference. This has been also the preference for ATANLP, a SIGFSM endorsed series of workshops.

ATANLP

• SIGFSM was asked to endorse the proposal for an EACL 2012 Workshop on Applications of Tree Automata Techniques in Natural Language Processing (ATANLP 2012).
• The workshop took place in April 24, 2012 in Avignon, France [2].
• The preproceedings and the final EACL proceedings of the workshop were published are online, available at [3] and http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/sigfsm.html

Elections

• The second SIGFSM elections are due in 2012. The elections are going to be held after the FSMNLP 2012 workshop. More candidates can be nominated in this way.

Reports

[4] 2009 [5] 2010 [6] 2011 [7] 2012 [8] 2013