2018Q3 Reports: SIGUR

General

The Special Interest Group on the Uralic Languages (SIGUR) has 53 members as of 5th May 2018. The public register for members who have given the permission to publish their details can be found at https://acl-sigur.github.io/members.html

The SIGUR board

The SIGUR board was voted in 2018 meeting:

• Chair: Tommi A Pirinen Researcher at Universität Hamburg

• Vice-president: Veronika Vincze Researcher at Szegedi Tudományegyetem

• Secretary: Francis M. Tyers Researcher at UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

• Events: Michael Rießler Researcher at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

• Community liaison: Trond Trosterud Professor at UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

3rd International Workshop for Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages (IWCLUL) in 2017

IWCLUL2018: SIGUR organised the 4th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Uralic languages (IWCLUL2018) at the University of Helsinki in January 2018, and the proceedings are published through ACL anthology.

Future meetings

The next annual meeting is tentatively planned for 2019 in Tartu (IWCLUL 2019)