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The ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities (SIGHUM) is intended to provide a forum for CL researchers who are developing language technology for data from the socio-economic sciences or the humanities (SSH). It also functions as a contact point for SSH stakeholders. ACL SIGHUM stands officially since June 2012.

= Organisation & Elections =

The first SIGHUM elections took place in October 2013. The voting was anonymous and the process was organised by Caroline Sporleder and Andrei Beliankou (University of Trier). The following elected board officers are serving until October 2015:

* President: Antal van den Bosch (Radboud University Nijmegen) 
* Secretary: Kalliopi Zervanou (Radboud University Nijmegen) 
* Liaison officer: Marieke van Erp (VU University Amsterdam) 

The next election process will begin in September 2015.