2018Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

The SIGSEM board

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Gemma Boleda (Information Officer); Ed Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

Past and future elections

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election is scheduled for 2020.

Members

The current SIGSEM membership counts around 800 members.

Website

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

IWCS 2017 took place September 19-22, 2017 in Montpellier, France. See https://www.lirmm.fr/iwcs2017/ The next IWCS will take place in 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• SEM-2017 took place August 3-4, 2017 in Vancouver, Canada. See https://sites.google.com/site/starsem2017/

The *SEM events are jointly organized by SIGSEM and SIGLEX.

Additional endorsed events in 2017

• QUAD Quantifiers and Determiners http://www.lirmm.fr/quad/