2016Q3 Reports: SIGSEM
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).
The contact addresses of the board members are here.
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 later this year, probably in October (2016).
Members
The current SIGSEM membership counts around 800 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 next IWCS will take place in 2017 in France. The official announcement of this event has not been distributed yet. The *SEM events are jointly organized by SIGSEM and SIGLEX. *SEM-2016 will take place in Berlin, collocated with ACL.
Endorsed events in 2015
- LSDSem: Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, EMNLP workshop, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015
- NLCS: Third Workshop on Natural Language and Computer Science, Kyoto, Japan, July 5 2015
- SemDial (goDIAL): Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 24-26, 2015
- WASSA: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.
- CoCoNat: Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning, Bloomington, USA, July 19-20, 2015
- IWCS 2015: 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Queen Mary University of London, April 14-17, 2015
- ISA-11: 11th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, IWCS workshop, Queen Mary University of London, April 14, 2015
- MOMA: Models for Modality Annotation, IWCS workshop, Queen Mary University of London, April 14, 2015
- Language and Ontologies 2015, IWCS workshop, Queen Mary University of London, April 14, 2015
- IMC: Modelling Interactive Meaning Construction in Dialogue, IWCS workshop, Queen Mary University of London, April 14, 2015
- ADS: Advances in Distributional Semantics, IWCS workshop, Queen Mary University of London, April 14, 2015