SIGHAN Richard Sproat Chair, SIGHAN In 2004 SIGHAN is sponsoring the 3rd SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing to be held in conjunction with ACL 2004, in Barcelona, Spain, July 25-26. The CFP and description of the workshop can be viewed at http://dev.eurac.edu:8080/sighan/call.html The following is the breakdown of authors of submitted and accepted workshop papers by country/region/whatever: Submitted Accepted China 9 7 Taiwan 4 4 Hong Kong 2 2 Japan 2 2 Korea 2 2 Singapore 2 2 France 2 1 USA 2 2 (1 withdrawn) Australia 1 1 Germany 1 1 ----------------------------------------------- Total 27 24 (1 withdrawn) Current SIGHAN membership breaks down by region as follows: Australia 1 Canada 2 China 30 Finland 1 France 1 Germany 1 Hong Kong 5 Japan 4 Singapore 5 South Korea 1 Taiwan 3 United Kingdom 2 United States 33 United States Minor Outlying Islands 1