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== Report on [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM], May 2010 ==
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=== Report on [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM] by Johan Bos and Katrin Erk (May 2010) ===
=== Johan Bos & Katrin Erk ===
 
  
The current SIGSEM membership counts 701 members.
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The current SIGSEM membership counts 701 members. The database needs to be cleaned up as there is a relatively large number of registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore. This is planned for the coming term.
  
The SIGSEM constitution calls for board elections every three
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The SIGSEM constitution calls for board elections every three years. Elections were held early 2010, in compliance
years. Elections were held early 2010, in compliance
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with the constitution. Here is a brief summary of the [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM_Elections_2010 elections results]: Johan Bos (President); Katrin Erk (Secretary); Luciana Benotti (Information Officer); Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer); Alexander Koller; (Information Officer); Christian Pietsch (Information Officer). For current contact addresses please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here].
with the constitution. '''Results of the elections'''.
 
  
Since the last ACL report, one newsletter has been sent to the SIGSEM
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Since the last ACL report, one [http://www.sigsem.org/w/images/c/c7/NewsletterOct2009.pdf newsletter] has been sent to the SIGSEM
members, in October 2009, featuring '''ADD STUFF HERE'''.
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members, in October 2009, featuring a report on the GEMS workshop, the GIVE-2 shared task, an announcement of new association for research on ontologies (IAOA), the shared task on VP Ellipsis, an announcement of a new journal (Dialogue & Discourse), and the ISA-5 workshop on semantic annotation.
  
Next IWCS: Oxford, UK. Jan 2011.
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SIGSEM officers have continued work on archiving the proceedings of previous IWCS and ICoS conferences in the ACL Anthology. This will bring all major SIGSEM-sponsored workshops into the Anthology. At this point, the Anthology holds the ICoS-5 and IWCS-8 proceedings.
  
The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009/2010 were/are:
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The next International Conference on Computational Semantics ([http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ IWCS-2011]), the main SIGSEM event, will be held in Oxford, UK, on 12-14 January 2011. The first call for papers has been distributed in the second week of May. The web site is up and running. Deadline for paper submissions is 30 September 2010.
  
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The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009 were:
   
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* [http://www.give-challenge.org/research/GIVE-2 Shared Task] Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments
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* [http://www.gl2009.org/ GL2009] <br /> Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
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* [http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/index.htm IWCS-8] 8th International Workshop on Computational Semantics<br />Jan 7-9, 2009 (Tilburg, Netherlands)
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* [http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/ GEMS 2009] <br/>March  31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
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* [http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2009/index.html SEW 2009] <br />Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
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* [http://www.diaholmia.org/ DiaHolmia 2009] <br /> Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009

Latest revision as of 01:22, 26 May 2010

Report on SIGSEM by Johan Bos and Katrin Erk (May 2010)

The current SIGSEM membership counts 701 members. The database needs to be cleaned up as there is a relatively large number of registered members whose email addresses aren't valid anymore. This is planned for the coming term.

The SIGSEM constitution calls for board elections every three years. Elections were held early 2010, in compliance with the constitution. Here is a brief summary of the elections results: Johan Bos (President); Katrin Erk (Secretary); Luciana Benotti (Information Officer); Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer); Alexander Koller; (Information Officer); Christian Pietsch (Information Officer). For current contact addresses please look here.

Since the last ACL report, one newsletter has been sent to the SIGSEM members, in October 2009, featuring a report on the GEMS workshop, the GIVE-2 shared task, an announcement of new association for research on ontologies (IAOA), the shared task on VP Ellipsis, an announcement of a new journal (Dialogue & Discourse), and the ISA-5 workshop on semantic annotation.

SIGSEM officers have continued work on archiving the proceedings of previous IWCS and ICoS conferences in the ACL Anthology. This will bring all major SIGSEM-sponsored workshops into the Anthology. At this point, the Anthology holds the ICoS-5 and IWCS-8 proceedings.

The next International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-2011), the main SIGSEM event, will be held in Oxford, UK, on 12-14 January 2011. The first call for papers has been distributed in the second week of May. The web site is up and running. Deadline for paper submissions is 30 September 2010.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009 were:

  • GL2009
    Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
  • IWCS-8 8th International Workshop on Computational Semantics
    Jan 7-9, 2009 (Tilburg, Netherlands)
  • GEMS 2009
    March 31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
  • SEW 2009
    Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
  • DiaHolmia 2009
    Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009