2010Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

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).

Since the last ACL report, one newsletter has been sent to the SIGSEM members, in October 2009, featuring ...

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 last week. The web site is up and running. Deadline for paper submissions is

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009/2010 were/are:

• Shared Task Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments