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| − | There is | + | There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, [http://www.sigsem.org SIGSEM], is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers. |
== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM == | == Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM == | ||
Revision as of 01:48, 3 July 2015
The SIGSEM board
The current board is composed of:
- Johan Bos (President);
- Katrin Erk (Secretary);
- Marco Baroni (Information Officer);
- Gemma Boleda (Information Officer);
- Alexander Koller (Information Officer);
- Matthew Purver (Information Officer).
Some of contact addresses have changed -- please look here for the latest updates.
Past and Future Elections
The last elections were held in October 2013, as planned. Three new information officiers joined the board. The next elections are planned for 2016.
Members
The current SIGSEM membership counts 877 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. Our website, SIGSEM, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.
Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM
The major SIGSEM/SIGLEX event in 2014 will be *SEM-2014, which will take place in Dublin, collocated with COLING (formally organized as a two-day COLING workshop). *SEM-2013 received 90 submissions of which 14 long and 8 short were accepted (acceptance rate: 24%). IWCS-2015 will take place at Queen Mary University of London.
Endorsed events in 2013
- NLCS: Natural Language and Computer Science. New Orleans, June 28, 2013.
- IWCS-2013: International Conference on Computational Semantics.Potsdam, 20-22 March 2013.
- *SEM-2013: Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics. Atlanta, 13/14 June 2013
- Events: First workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation. Atlanta, June 14 2013
- NLCS: Natural Language and Computer Science. New Orleans, 28 June 2013.
- GL2013: 6th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon. Pisa, September 24-25, 2013.
- JSSP 2013: Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing: Textual Inference and Structures in Corpora.Trento, 20-22 November 2013
- DialDam: The 17th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Amsterdam, 16-18 December 2013