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Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava served as SemEval-2010 co-chairs overseeing a total of 18 tasks. The SemEval workshop will be held at the ACL 2010 meeting.
 
Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava served as SemEval-2010 co-chairs overseeing a total of 18 tasks. The SemEval workshop will be held at the ACL 2010 meeting.
  
== Events ==
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= Events =
 
SIGLEX has endorsed the following events this year:
 
SIGLEX has endorsed the following events this year:
  
* Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure and Lookup Mechanisms of Electronic Dictionaries Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-22, Beijing, China.
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* Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure and Lookup Mechanisms of Electronic Dictionaries Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-22, Beijing, China.
  
* Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)
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* Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)
 
Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-21, Beijing, China.
 
Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-21, Beijing, China.
  
* SemEval-2: Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation
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* SemEval-2: Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation
 
Workshop at ACL, 2010-07-15, Uppsala.
 
Workshop at ACL, 2010-07-15, Uppsala.
  
* GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10), 2010-07-15, Uppsala, Sweden.  
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* GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10), 2010-07-15, Uppsala, Sweden.  
  
* Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing
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* Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing
 
Workshop at Antwerp University - Saarland University, 2010-07-10, Uppsala, Sweden.
 
Workshop at Antwerp University - Saarland University, 2010-07-10, Uppsala, Sweden.

Revision as of 01:33, 2 June 2010

The following SIGLEX board officers are serving until 1st August 2010:

  • President: Diana McCarthy, Lexical Computing Ltd.
  • Secretary: Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

Executive Board:

  • Mona Diab, Columbia University
  • Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
  • Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
  • Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart
  • Carlo Strapparava, ITC-IRST, Trento

Board Member with Special Portfolio/Webmaster: Ken Litkowski, CL Research

In accordance with the SIGLEX constitution, we ran a nomination process for the 2010-2012 board in January this year and conducted an electronic ballot of our members to determine the incoming board. Voting closed 31st May, 112 members had voted and the incoming board with be:

  • President: Eneko Agirre
  • Secretary: Mona Diab
  • Information officers: Tim Baldwin, Katrin Erk, Anna Korhonen, Mark Stevenson
  • Web master: Ken Litkowski

We will pass to the new board after SemEval 2010, with a business meeting at SemEval. We currently have 402 members and manage membership and mailing lists using the website developed and maintained by Ken Litkowski.

Katrin Erk and Carlo Strapparava served as SemEval-2010 co-chairs overseeing a total of 18 tasks. The SemEval workshop will be held at the ACL 2010 meeting.

Events

SIGLEX has endorsed the following events this year:

  • Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon: Enhancing the Structure and Lookup Mechanisms of Electronic Dictionaries Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-22, Beijing, China.
  • Multiword Expressions: from Theory to Applications (MWE 2010)

Workshop at COLING 2010, 2010-08-21, Beijing, China.

  • SemEval-2: Evaluation Exercises on Semantic Evaluation

Workshop at ACL, 2010-07-15, Uppsala.

  • GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics (GEMS) Workshop at Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-10), 2010-07-15, Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Negation and Speculation in Natural Language Processing

Workshop at Antwerp University - Saarland University, 2010-07-10, Uppsala, Sweden.