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* '''Christian Pietsch''' (Information Officer).  
  
Some of contact addresses have changed, please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here] for the latest updates. Next elections are planned for March 2013.
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Some of contact addresses might have changed -- please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here] for the latest updates.  
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== Upcoming Elections ==
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The next elections were planned for March 2013, but haven't been held yet. We will plan to have the elections after the summer break.
  
 
== Members ==
 
== Members ==
  
The current SIGSEM membership counts 788 members. We have started cleaning up the database with members, by removing registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore after a couple of email bounces, of people who we can't reach otherwise. There is an active, moderated mailinglist, see [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM].
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The current SIGSEM membership counts 841 members. We have started cleaning up the database with members, by removing registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore after a couple of email bounces, of people who we can't reach otherwise. There is a reasonably  active, moderated mailinglist. See [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM].
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== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM ==
  
== Major SIGSEM Events: *SEM and IWCS ==
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The major SIGSEM event of 2013 was [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/iwcs2013/index.html IWCS-2013], which took place in Potsdam, Germany. This was a four-day conference (including five workshops and an open-space afternoon) attracting over a 100 computational semanticists. IWCS-2013 received 60 long submissions and 22 short submissions (plus 3 long submissions that were accepted as short). Accepted were 25 long and 16 short papers, resulting in an acceptance rate of 41.7% for long papers and 64% for short papers.
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Two SIGSEM board members took care of the organisation: Alexander Koller (local matters) and Katrin Erk (programme matters). There are three bids to organize IWCS-2015.
  
In 2012 SIGSEM and SIGLEX co-organised the start of new conference, *SEM, which took place in Montreal at NAACL. We see this as a very positive move towards collaboration of the SIGLEX and SIGSEM communities, which have a large overlap in research interests, but historically originated from different angles. See [[2012Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX]] for a more detailed report on *SEM. The organisation of the next major SIGSEM event is [http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/iwcs2013/index.html IWCS-2013], which will take place in Potsdam, Germany in March next year. Two board members (Alexander Koller and Katrin Erk) take care of the organisation.
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Last year (2012), SIGSEM and SIGLEX co-organised the start of new conference, *SEM, which took place in Montreal at NAACL. We see this as a very positive move towards collaboration of the SIGLEX and SIGSEM communities, which have a large overlap in research interests, but historically originated from different angles. See [[2012Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX]] for a more detailed report on *SEM. The second edition of *SEM is collocated with NAACL in Atlanta this year. Plans for *SEM-2014 are currently discussed between the SIGLEX and SIGSEM boards.
  
== Endorsed events in 2011 ==
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== Endorsed events in 2012 ==
  
* [http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011 IWCS-2011] <br /> Oxford, UK, 12-14 January 2011
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* [http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/starsem/ *SEM-2012]: First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Montreal, 7-8 June 2012.
* [http://sigsem.uvt.nl/isa6/ ISA-6]: Sixth Joint ACL &ndash; ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (in conjuction with IWCS-2011)
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* [http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/wassa2012/ WASSA-2012]: 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Jeju, Korea, 12-13 Jul, 2012. Held in conjunction with the [http://www.acl2012.org/ ACL 2012] Conference
* [http://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/ TextInfer-2011]<br />  Workshop on Textual Entailment (in conjunction with EMNLP)
 
* [http://sites.google.com/site/geometricalmodels/ GEMS-2011]<br /> Geometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (in conjunction with EMNLP)
 
* [http://passage.inria.fr/cid2011 CID 2011]<br /> Constraints in Discourse IV, Agay-Roches Rouges, Var, France, 14-17 September 2011
 

Latest revision as of 04:20, 10 June 2013

The SIGSEM board

The current board is composed of:

  • Johan Bos (President);
  • Katrin Erk (Secretary);
  • Luciana Benotti (Information Officer);
  • Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer);
  • Alexander Koller (Information Officer);
  • Christian Pietsch (Information Officer).

Some of contact addresses might have changed -- please look here for the latest updates.

Upcoming Elections

The next elections were planned for March 2013, but haven't been held yet. We will plan to have the elections after the summer break.

Members

The current SIGSEM membership counts 841 members. We have started cleaning up the database with members, by removing registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore after a couple of email bounces, of people who we can't reach otherwise. There is a reasonably active, moderated mailinglist. See SIGSEM.

Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM

The major SIGSEM event of 2013 was IWCS-2013, which took place in Potsdam, Germany. This was a four-day conference (including five workshops and an open-space afternoon) attracting over a 100 computational semanticists. IWCS-2013 received 60 long submissions and 22 short submissions (plus 3 long submissions that were accepted as short). Accepted were 25 long and 16 short papers, resulting in an acceptance rate of 41.7% for long papers and 64% for short papers. Two SIGSEM board members took care of the organisation: Alexander Koller (local matters) and Katrin Erk (programme matters). There are three bids to organize IWCS-2015.

Last year (2012), SIGSEM and SIGLEX co-organised the start of new conference, *SEM, which took place in Montreal at NAACL. We see this as a very positive move towards collaboration of the SIGLEX and SIGSEM communities, which have a large overlap in research interests, but historically originated from different angles. See 2012Q3_Reports:_SIGLEX for a more detailed report on *SEM. The second edition of *SEM is collocated with NAACL in Atlanta this year. Plans for *SEM-2014 are currently discussed between the SIGLEX and SIGSEM boards.

Endorsed events in 2012

  • *SEM-2012: First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Montreal, 7-8 June 2012.
  • WASSA-2012: 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis. Jeju, Korea, 12-13 Jul, 2012. Held in conjunction with the ACL 2012 Conference