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SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-11-15T15:51:18Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* International Advisory Committee */

This page describes the people and the bodies that are responsible for the administration of the [[SIGFSM]].

== Officers ==

'''Elected Officers'''

* 2012-2015 Andreas Maletti (President), Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer), Måns Hulden (Secretary)
* 2010-2012 Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President), Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer), Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012. Thus the new elections
are due October 2012 and the nominations of the candidates in August 2012.

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, 2012-)
* the former and the current elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-11-15T15:38:45Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Officers */

This page describes the people and the bodies that are responsible for the administration of the [[SIGFSM]].

== Officers ==

'''Elected Officers'''

* 2012-2015 Andreas Maletti (President), Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer), Måns Hulden (Secretary)
* 2010-2012 Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President), Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer), Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012. Thus the new elections
are due October 2012 and the nominations of the candidates in August 2012.

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

Handbook for SIGFSM event organizers

2012-10-31T07:30:03Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) */

'''Handbook for [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]] event organizers'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of this page is (1) to help organizers of SIGFSM endorsed events and (2) to set recommendations and standards for various policies.

== Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) ==

The following recommendation is adapted from [[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook |the ACL Conference Handbook]].

The following is the SIGFSM policy on conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions. A person is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a paper submitted to a SIGFSM conference if he (male forms only here)
<ul>
* is a (co-)author of the paper, or
* is employed at the same institution as that person, or
* is, or has been in the previous five years, a student/supervisor/advisor of an author, or
* has extensively collaborated with an author (usually demonstrated by
several joint publications) in the past incl. the previous five years, or
* any other circumstances create an appearance that he might have a
bias in the evaluation of the paper.
</ul>

COMMENT: We softened the constraints on collaboration since we are a focused conference where some collaboration between member is very likely; disallowing any collaboration in the past 5 years might make it difficult to find good reviewers.

COMMENT: The term "extensive" might need to be clarified, but one could put the collaboration between Nederhof and Satta forward as a positive example and the collaboration between Hanneforth and Bak as a negative example (see DBLP for joint publications).

COMMENT: We only changed the order; these two basic facts are automatically checked by conference software (such as Easychair) and thus do not involve much work and represent to me the bare minimum

No person shall review or participate in the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. The identity of the reviewers of a paper shall be withheld from all people who have a conflict of interest in that paper.

The following are the procedures that must be followed for avoidance of conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions.
<ul>
* 1. The program committee (co-)chair and his students must NOT submit contributions to the conference.
* 2. A paper shall not be assigned to a PC or to a reviewer who has a
conflict of interest in it.
* 3. If a PC or reviewer is inadvertently assigned a paper in which he
has a conflict of interest, he must immediately declare the fact and
return the paper.
* 4. Reviewing procedures and software shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from seeing non-anonymized reviews of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. Reviewing procedures and software and program committee discussions and meetings shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from participating in or observing any discussion relating to the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest.
</ul>
COMMENT: Since we typically do not have several layers of chairs, this seems to be the only reasonable conclusion. In my opinion, this is also less of a restriction as other equally reputable conferences exist and can be used for those papers.

COMMENT: This recommendation is makes the quality of the reviewing process more transparent. In general, this transparency has not been observed systematically in the past, which makes it harder to judge from outside that the quality of the reviewing process. Without the recommendation, the chairs can use an automatic assignment and ask PC members to delegate the reviewing, but such extra cautions are difficult to testify.

In the interpretation of this policy and these procedures, if there is any doubt as to whether or not a conflict of interest exists, PC chairs, PC members and reviewers are advised to be cautious. The SIGFSM Board (IAB) may be asked for its opinion on specific cases.

The SIGFSM Board (IAB) is committed (if this recommendation is endorsed) to observing how this recommendation is implemented and to develop the transparency of the quality of the reviewing process.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] Wed 31 Oct 2012 08:54:34 EET.

Handbook for SIGFSM event organizers

2012-10-31T07:29:31Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) */

'''Handbook for [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]] event organizers'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of this page is (1) to help organizers of SIGFSM endorsed events and (2) to set recommendations and standards for various policies.

== Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) ==

The following recommendation is adapted from [[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook |the ACL Conference Handbook]].

The following is the SIGFSM policy on conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions. A person is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a paper submitted to a SIGFSM conference if he (male forms only here)
<ul>
* is a (co-)author of the paper, or
* is employed at the same institution as that person, or
* is, or has been in the previous five years, a student/supervisor/advisor of an author, or
* has extensively collaborated with an author (usually demonstrated by
several joint publications) in the past incl. the previous five years, or
* any other circumstances create an appearance that he might have a
bias in the evaluation of the paper.
</ul>

COMMENT: We softened the constraints on collaboration since we are a focused conference where some collaboration between member is very likely; disallowing any collaboration in the past 5 years might make it difficult to find good reviewers.

COMMENT: The term "extensive" might need to be clarified, but one could put the collaboration between Nederhof and Satta forward as a positive example and the collaboration between Hanneforth and Bak as a negative example (see DBLP for joint publications).

COMMENT: We only changed the order; these two basic facts are automatically checked by conference software (such as Easychair) and thus do not involve much work and represent to me the bare minimum

No person shall review or participate in the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. The identity of the reviewers of a paper shall be withheld from all people who have a conflict of interest in that paper.

The following are the procedures that must be followed for avoidance of conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions.
<ol>
1. The program committee (co-)chair and his students must NOT submit contributions to the conference.
1. A paper shall not be assigned to a PC or to a reviewer who has a
conflict of interest in it.
1. If a PC or reviewer is inadvertently assigned a paper in which he
has a conflict of interest, he must immediately declare the fact and
return the paper.
1. Reviewing procedures and software shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from seeing non-anonymized reviews of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. Reviewing procedures and software and program committee discussions and meetings shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from participating in or observing any discussion relating to the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest.
</ol>
COMMENT: Since we typically do not have several layers of chairs, this seems to be the only reasonable conclusion. In my opinion, this is also less of a restriction as other equally reputable conferences exist and can be used for those papers.

COMMENT: This recommendation is makes the quality of the reviewing process more transparent. In general, this transparency has not been observed systematically in the past, which makes it harder to judge from outside that the quality of the reviewing process. Without the recommendation, the chairs can use an automatic assignment and ask PC members to delegate the reviewing, but such extra cautions are difficult to testify.

In the interpretation of this policy and these procedures, if there is any doubt as to whether or not a conflict of interest exists, PC chairs, PC members and reviewers are advised to be cautious. The SIGFSM Board (IAB) may be asked for its opinion on specific cases.

The SIGFSM Board (IAB) is committed (if this recommendation is endorsed) to observing how this recommendation is implemented and to develop the transparency of the quality of the reviewing process.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] Wed 31 Oct 2012 08:54:34 EET.

Handbook for SIGFSM event organizers

2012-10-31T07:29:05Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) */

'''Handbook for [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]] event organizers'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of this page is (1) to help organizers of SIGFSM endorsed events and (2) to set recommendations and standards for various policies.

== Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) ==

The following recommendation is adapted from [[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook |the ACL Conference Handbook]].

The following is the SIGFSM policy on conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions. A person is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a paper submitted to a SIGFSM conference if he (male forms only here)
<ul>
* is a (co-)author of the paper, or
* is employed at the same institution as that person, or
* is, or has been in the previous five years, a student/supervisor/advisor of an author, or
* has extensively collaborated with an author (usually demonstrated by
several joint publications) in the past incl. the previous five years, or
* any other circumstances create an appearance that he might have a
bias in the evaluation of the paper.
</ul>

COMMENT: We softened the constraints on collaboration since we are a focused conference where some collaboration between member is very likely; disallowing any collaboration in the past 5 years might make it difficult to find good reviewers.

COMMENT: The term "extensive" might need to be clarified, but one could put the collaboration between Nederhof and Satta forward as a positive example and the collaboration between Hanneforth and Bak as a negative example (see DBLP for joint publications).

COMMENT: We only changed the order; these two basic facts are automatically checked by conference software (such as Easychair) and thus do not involve much work and represent to me the bare minimum

No person shall review or participate in the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. The identity of the reviewers of a paper shall be withheld from all people who have a conflict of interest in that paper.

The following are the procedures that must be followed for avoidance of conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions.
<ol>
* The program committee (co-)chair and his students must NOT submit contributions to the conference.
* A paper shall not be assigned to a PC or to a reviewer who has a
conflict of interest in it.
* If a PC or reviewer is inadvertently assigned a paper in which he
has a conflict of interest, he must immediately declare the fact and
return the paper.
* Reviewing procedures and software shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from seeing non-anonymized reviews of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. Reviewing procedures and software and program committee discussions and meetings shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from participating in or observing any discussion relating to the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest.
</ol>
COMMENT: Since we typically do not have several layers of chairs, this seems to be the only reasonable conclusion. In my opinion, this is also less of a restriction as other equally reputable conferences exist and can be used for those papers.

COMMENT: This recommendation is makes the quality of the reviewing process more transparent. In general, this transparency has not been observed systematically in the past, which makes it harder to judge from outside that the quality of the reviewing process. Without the recommendation, the chairs can use an automatic assignment and ask PC members to delegate the reviewing, but such extra cautions are difficult to testify.

In the interpretation of this policy and these procedures, if there is any doubt as to whether or not a conflict of interest exists, PC chairs, PC members and reviewers are advised to be cautious. The SIGFSM Board (IAB) may be asked for its opinion on specific cases.

The SIGFSM Board (IAB) is committed (if this recommendation is endorsed) to observing how this recommendation is implemented and to develop the transparency of the quality of the reviewing process.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] Wed 31 Oct 2012 08:54:34 EET.

Handbook for SIGFSM event organizers

2012-10-31T07:28:05Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra:

'''Handbook for [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]] event organizers'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of this page is (1) to help organizers of SIGFSM endorsed events and (2) to set recommendations and standards for various policies.

== Conflict of Interest (proposal received on 15 Oct 2012) ==

The following recommendation is adapted from [[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook |the ACL Conference Handbook]].

The following is the SIGFSM policy on conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions. A person is deemed to have a conflict of interest in a paper submitted to a SIGFSM conference if he (male forms only here)
<ul>
- is a (co-)author of the paper, or
- is employed at the same institution as that person, or
- is, or has been in the previous five years, a student/supervisor/advisor of an author, or
- has extensively collaborated with an author (usually demonstrated by
several joint publications) in the past incl. the previous five years, or
- any other circumstances create an appearance that he might have a
bias in the evaluation of the paper.
</ul>

COMMENT: We softened the constraints on collaboration since we are a focused conference where some collaboration between member is very likely; disallowing any collaboration in the past 5 years might make it difficult to find good reviewers.

COMMENT: The term "extensive" might need to be clarified, but one could put the collaboration between Nederhof and Satta forward as a positive example and the collaboration between Hanneforth and Bak as a negative example (see DBLP for joint publications).

COMMENT: We only changed the order; these two basic facts are automatically checked by conference software (such as Easychair) and thus do not involve much work and represent to me the bare minimum

No person shall review or participate in the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. The identity of the reviewers of a paper shall be withheld from all people who have a conflict of interest in that paper.

The following are the procedures that must be followed for avoidance of conflicts of interest in reviewing and accepting conference submissions.
<ul>
* (1) The program committee (co-)chair and his students must NOT submit contributions to the conference.
* (2) A paper shall not be assigned to a PC or to a reviewer who has a
conflict of interest in it.
* (3) If a PC or reviewer is inadvertently assigned a paper in which he
has a conflict of interest, he must immediately declare the fact and
return the paper.
* (4) Reviewing procedures and software shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from seeing non-anonymized reviews of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest. Reviewing procedures and software and program committee discussions and meetings shall be organized in such a manner as to prevent any person from participating in or observing any discussion relating to the acceptance decision of any paper in which he has a conflict of interest.
</ul>
COMMENT: Since we typically do not have several layers of chairs, this seems to be the only reasonable conclusion. In my opinion, this is also less of a restriction as other equally reputable conferences exist and can be used for those papers.

COMMENT: This recommendation is makes the quality of the reviewing process more transparent. In general, this transparency has not been observed systematically in the past, which makes it harder to judge from outside that the quality of the reviewing process. Without the recommendation, the chairs can use an automatic assignment and ask PC members to delegate the reviewing, but such extra cautions are difficult to testify.

In the interpretation of this policy and these procedures, if there is any doubt as to whether or not a conflict of interest exists, PC chairs, PC members and reviewers are advised to be cautious. The SIGFSM Board (IAB) may be asked for its opinion on specific cases.

The SIGFSM Board (IAB) is committed (if this recommendation is endorsed) to observing how this recommendation is implemented and to develop the transparency of the quality of the reviewing process.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] Wed 31 Oct 2012 08:54:34 EET.

2012-07-27T07:30:21Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra:

Currently the SIGFSM membership directory is not public. This will change after we have asked for membership renewal and permissions to publish the names in the directory.

The email address or contact information of any member are not published, unless we get a consent for showing such information in the public directory entry.

SIGFSM Membership directory

2012-07-27T07:29:45Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: Created page with "Currently the SIGFSM membership directory is not public. This will change after we have asked for membership renewal and permissions to publish the names in the directory. The ..."

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:24:07Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Officers */

This page describes the people and the bodies that are responsible for the administration of the [[SIGFSM]].

== Officers ==

'''Elected Officers'''

* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012. Thus the new elections
are due October 2012 and the nominations of the candidates in August 2012.

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:23:45Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Officers */

This page describes the people and the bodies that are responsible for the administration of the [[SIGFSM]].

== Officers ==

'''Elected Officers'''

* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012. Thus the new elections
are due October 2012 and the Nominations in August 2012.

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:21:38Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra:

This page describes the people and the bodies that are responsible for the administration of the [[SIGFSM]].

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:20:01Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Officers */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

Back to the home page of the [[SIGFSM]] wiki.

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:16:50Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops and conferences may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming scientific meetings.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T07:03:52Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* International Advisory Committee */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

Although the IAB is not directly elected, any SIGFSM member can contact a board member or the elected officers in order to propose a new IAB member. We would like to see that the board has representatives for different continents, countries, FSM schools and other interests felt in the field. Obviously, this goal is not yet fully achieved. Please help improve the representativeness of the board!

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers

2012-07-27T06:57:07Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: moved SIGFSM officers to SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings: Widened scope of the title

#REDIRECT [[SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings]]

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:57:07Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: moved SIGFSM officers to SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings: Widened scope of the title

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM

2012-07-27T06:56:14Z

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* [[SIGFSM organizations, groups, companies|Organizations, groups, companies, associations using FSM]]
* [[SIGFSM people|People]] - home pages of researchers in the FSM field
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* [[SIGFSM relevant journals|Relevant journals]] - where to submit your FSM papers
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* [[SIGFSM research|Research]] - tutorials, wiki articles, books, papers, bibliographies
* [[SIGFSM state of the art|State of the Art]] - state of the art for core resources and methods
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[[Category:Special Interest groups]]

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:54:40Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction of the Events */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction with the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:53:57Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* Unofficial Business Meetings of the Events */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings in Conjunction of the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:53:11Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* SIGFSM Business Meetings */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members by email or in the home page of an endorsed workshop or conference.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings of the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:51:24Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* SIGFSM Business Meetings and Unofficial Meetings */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed. The dates of these meetings are separately announced to the SIGFSM members.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

== Unofficial Business Meetings of the Events ==

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize with its attendants unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

2012-07-27T06:49:24Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* SIGFSM Business Meeting and International Advisory Committee */

== Officers ==

'''The term of the elected officers started on 11 May, 2010 and is to end in 2012:'''
* Anssi Yli-Jyrä (President)
* Thomas Hanneforth (Treasurer)
* Laurette Pretorius (Secretary)

'''Other Positions:'''

* Liaison Representative in ACL 2012: Matthieu Constant
* Email List Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth
* Web Site Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä
* Web Content Resource Manager: Thomas Hanneforth, Anssi Yli-Jyrä

== International Advisory Committee ==

The members of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) were nominated already in 2010 and 2012 by the elected officers and they are to continue at this position for the year 2012 and stay in the board beyond this by default.

* Matthieu Constant (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
* Tim Fernando (Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland) 2012-
* Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University, France)
* Måns Hulden (University of Helsinki, Finland) 2012-
* Lauri Karttunen (Stanford University, USA)
* Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA)
* András Kornai (Harvard University, USA & Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)
* Marco Kuhlman (Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Sweden) 2012-
* Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
* Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
* Bruce W. Watson (University of Pretoria, SA & Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
* Menno van Zaanen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
* Lynette van Zijl (Stellenbosch University, SA)
* the elected officers

== SIGFSM Business Meetings and Unofficial Meetings ==

An official Business Meeting is needed when we have higly controversial or constitutional matters to be discussed.

* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2009, Pretoria, South Africa, July 2009.
* A SIGFSM Business Meeting: in FSMNLP 2011, Blois, France, July 2011.

In addition to the official Business Meetings, the endorsed workshops may organize unofficial business meetings that are needed to collect feedback, wishes and help the organizers of the forthcoming workshops.

* An unofficial Business Beeting: in FSMNLP 2012, Donostia-San Sebastian, in July 2012.

SIGFSM officers, board and business meetings

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SIGFSM constitution

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'''Constitution of the [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]]'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM |Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methos, SIGFSM]] (the SIG) shall be:

* To promote interest in Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, including such aspects as
<ul>
* applying the methods in natural language processing
* basic research on the relevant finite-state methods
* common representations and interfaces for finite-state resources in NLP
* inclusion of the finite-state methods into relevant standards and infrastructures.
</ul>
* To provide members of the ACL having a special interest in Finite-State Methods with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments

* To sponsor meetings and workshops (such as the FSMNLP workshops) in Finite-State Methods that appear to be timely and worthwhile

* To make it easier to coordinate/share organization efforts for joint meetings and workshops with related ACL SIGs, especially SIGMORPHON

* To provide and make available resources relevant to Finite-State Methods and their NLP applications, including previous FSMNLP proceedings, bibliographies, test suites, formalisms and tools, formats and interfaces, research papers and publicly available finite-state libraries and generated resources.

SIGFSM will operate within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

== THE ELECTED OFFICERS ==

The elected officers of the SIG shall consist of a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. These shall be be members in good standing of the ACL. The term of all elected officers of the SIG shall be 3 years or shorter if the elected officers organize the elections earlier.

[[President]]

The duties of the President shall be:

* To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of the SIG;
* To prepare a written report on the activities of the SIG for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
* To designate a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

[[Secretary]]

The duties of the Secretary shall be:

* Communication with members of the SIG
* Answering inquiries about the SIG
* To maintain a membership roster of the SIG
* To conduct elections as mandated below

[[Treasurer]]

The duties of the Treasurer shall be:

* To be responsible for any moneys awarded to the SIG by the ACL; to collect and manage any dues that may be required by the organization; and to present a written annual report on the SIG finances to the Executive Committee of the ACL.

== OTHER REPRESENTATIVES ==

The President designates a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

The elected officers will nominate an International Advisory Committee which represents at least four countries and three continents.

[[Liaison Representative]]

The duties of the Liaison Representative shall be:

* To be primarily responsible for communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL;
* To be responsible for relations to other ACL SIGs,
* To requests the approval of the ACL Executive Committee for any activities jointly sponsored with any other non-ACL organizations.

[[Resource Manager]]

The duties of the Resource Manager shall be:

* To create a webpage with the statement of purpose, constitution, current officer information;
* To handle resources that are made available through the web.

[[International Advisory Committee]]

The duties of the International Advisory Committee shall be:

* Planning and coordination of SIGFSM activities,
* To ratify the time and venue of for the workshops and meetings.

== MEMBERSHIP ==

[[Joining]]

Membership is open to anyone who professes an interest in finite-state methods. It does not require ACL membership. The membership can be obtained either through provided electronic means or by filling a membership form in conjunction with a SIG meeting.

[[Termination]]

Membership will be terminated on request, or automatically if no reply is received within 2 months of a timely membership renewal request. Such requests are to be communicated by the medium, and to the address, last notified to the Secretary. Automatically terminated memberships will be reinstated on request.

== ELECTION OF ELECTED OFFICERS ==

All elected officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. If a vacancy occurs among the officers of the SIG, remaining two elected officers may nominate a replacement officer who will serve out up to the remainder of the previous office holder's term.

[[Nominations 3 months before the election]]

Nominations shall be called at least 3 months prior to the election, and shall close 2 months prior to the election. SIG members will be given notice to submit nominations for SIG officers. Candidates must be nominated by two members, must accept nomination, must be in good standing of SIGFSM.

[[Voting 2 months before the election]]

Voting shall commence at least 2 months before the expiration of the current terms of the officers. All members shall be notified of the election date and the nominations at least 4 weeks prior to the close of voting.

Votes may be entered by electronic or physical mail or other designated means. Votes arriving by the notified closing date will be counted. The votes will be counted by the Secretary or another officer appointed by the Advisory Committee and agreed to by all candidates.

[[Announcement of the Results]]

Any nominee receiving a majority of the votes will be declared elected. The results shall be notified to the members within 4 weeks immediately after the announcement of the results, and the previous officers will remain active for 3 months to ease the transition. Notification shall signify dispatch of mail by the medium and to the address last notified to the secretary.

== DUES ==

SIGFSM does not charge dues.

== RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ==

In providing and making available any resources as defined in Clause 1, and especially any held and distributed electronically, the SIG shall follow proper procedures with respect to matters like copyright, registration and data protection as is appropriate to each case.

The SIG shall not enter into any formal or potentially legally binding contracts without the approval of ACL Executive Committee (or the ACL Secretary-Treasurer acting under delegated powers). The SIG shall not enter into any financial commitments for such resources without ensuring that the moneys required are available.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] 02:28, 27 July 2012 (EDT) This version has been approved by the ACL Board and the SIGFSM members in 2009. Formatting and subsection divisions added 27 July 2012.

SIGFSM constitution

2012-07-27T06:32:13Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra:

'''Constitution of the [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM|ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM]]'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) [[http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=SIGFSM|Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methos, SIGFSM]] (the SIG) shall be:

* To promote interest in Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, including such aspects as
<ul>
* applying the methods in natural language processing
* basic research on the relevant finite-state methods
* common representations and interfaces for finite-state resources in NLP
* inclusion of the finite-state methods into relevant standards and infrastructures.
</ul>
* To provide members of the ACL having a special interest in Finite-State Methods with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments

* To sponsor meetings and workshops (such as the FSMNLP workshops) in Finite-State Methods that appear to be timely and worthwhile

* To make it easier to coordinate/share organization efforts for joint meetings and workshops with related ACL SIGs, especially SIGMORPHON

* To provide and make available resources relevant to Finite-State Methods and their NLP applications, including previous FSMNLP proceedings, bibliographies, test suites, formalisms and tools, formats and interfaces, research papers and publicly available finite-state libraries and generated resources.

SIGFSM will operate within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

== THE ELECTED OFFICERS ==

The elected officers of the SIG shall consist of a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. These shall be be members in good standing of the ACL. The term of all elected officers of the SIG shall be 3 years or shorter if the elected officers organize the elections earlier.

[[President]]

The duties of the President shall be:

* To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of the SIG;
* To prepare a written report on the activities of the SIG for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
* To designate a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

[[Secretary]]

The duties of the Secretary shall be:

* Communication with members of the SIG
* Answering inquiries about the SIG
* To maintain a membership roster of the SIG
* To conduct elections as mandated below

[[Treasurer]]

The duties of the Treasurer shall be:

* To be responsible for any moneys awarded to the SIG by the ACL; to collect and manage any dues that may be required by the organization; and to present a written annual report on the SIG finances to the Executive Committee of the ACL.

== OTHER REPRESENTATIVES ==

The President designates a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

The elected officers will nominate an International Advisory Committee which represents at least four countries and three continents.

[[Liaison Representative]]

The duties of the Liaison Representative shall be:

* To be primarily responsible for communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL;
* To be responsible for relations to other ACL SIGs,
* To requests the approval of the ACL Executive Committee for any activities jointly sponsored with any other non-ACL organizations.

[[Resource Manager]]

The duties of the Resource Manager shall be:

* To create a webpage with the statement of purpose, constitution, current officer information;
* To handle resources that are made available through the web.

[[International Advisory Committee]]

The duties of the International Advisory Committee shall be:

* Planning and coordination of SIGFSM activities,
* To ratify the time and venue of for the workshops and meetings.

== MEMBERSHIP ==

[[Joining]]

Membership is open to anyone who professes an interest in finite-state methods. It does not require ACL membership. The membership can be obtained either through provided electronic means or by filling a membership form in conjunction with a SIG meeting.

[[Termination]]

Membership will be terminated on request, or automatically if no reply is received within 2 months of a timely membership renewal request. Such requests are to be communicated by the medium, and to the address, last notified to the Secretary. Automatically terminated memberships will be reinstated on request.

== ELECTION OF ELECTED OFFICERS ==

All elected officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. If a vacancy occurs among the officers of the SIG, remaining two elected officers may nominate a replacement officer who will serve out up to the remainder of the previous office holder's term.

[[Nominations 3 months before the election]]

Nominations shall be called at least 3 months prior to the election, and shall close 2 months prior to the election. SIG members will be given notice to submit nominations for SIG officers. Candidates must be nominated by two members, must accept nomination, must be in good standing of SIGFSM.

[[Voting 2 months before the election]]

Voting shall commence at least 2 months before the expiration of the current terms of the officers. All members shall be notified of the election date and the nominations at least 4 weeks prior to the close of voting.

Votes may be entered by electronic or physical mail or other designated means. Votes arriving by the notified closing date will be counted. The votes will be counted by the Secretary or another officer appointed by the Advisory Committee and agreed to by all candidates.

[[Announcement of the Results]]

Any nominee receiving a majority of the votes will be declared elected. The results shall be notified to the members within 4 weeks immediately after the announcement of the results, and the previous officers will remain active for 3 months to ease the transition. Notification shall signify dispatch of mail by the medium and to the address last notified to the secretary.

== DUES ==

SIGFSM does not charge dues.

== RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ==

In providing and making available any resources as defined in Clause 1, and especially any held and distributed electronically, the SIG shall follow proper procedures with respect to matters like copyright, registration and data protection as is appropriate to each case.

The SIG shall not enter into any formal or potentially legally binding contracts without the approval of ACL Executive Committee (or the ACL Secretary-Treasurer acting under delegated powers). The SIG shall not enter into any financial commitments for such resources without ensuring that the moneys required are available.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] 02:28, 27 July 2012 (EDT) This version has been approved by the ACL Board and the SIGFSM members in 2009. Formatting and subsection divisions added 27 July 2012.

SIGFSM constitution

2012-07-27T06:29:54Z

Anssi.Yli-Jyra: /* The version control of this document */

'''Constitution of the ACL Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methods, SIGFSM'''

== STATEMENT OF PURPOSE ==

The purpose of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Finite-State Methos, SIGFSM (the SIG) shall be:

* To promote interest in Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, including such aspects as
<ul>
* applying the methods in natural language processing
* basic research on the relevant finite-state methods
* common representations and interfaces for finite-state resources in NLP
* inclusion of the finite-state methods into relevant standards and infrastructures.
</ul>
* To provide members of the ACL having a special interest in Finite-State Methods with a means of exchanging news of recent research developments

* To sponsor meetings and workshops (such as the FSMNLP workshops) in Finite-State Methods that appear to be timely and worthwhile

* To make it easier to coordinate/share organization efforts for joint meetings and workshops with related ACL SIGs, especially SIGMORPHON

* To provide and make available resources relevant to Finite-State Methods and their NLP applications, including previous FSMNLP proceedings, bibliographies, test suites, formalisms and tools, formats and interfaces, research papers and publicly available finite-state libraries and generated resources.

SIGFSM will operate within the framework of the ACL's general guidelines for SIGs.

== THE ELECTED OFFICERS ==

The elected officers of the SIG shall consist of a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. These shall be be members in good standing of the ACL. The term of all elected officers of the SIG shall be 3 years or shorter if the elected officers organize the elections earlier.

[[President]]

The duties of the President shall be:

* To have primary executive authority over actions and activities of the SIG;
* To prepare a written report on the activities of the SIG for the Executive Committee of the ACL, for presentation to the ACL at its Annual Business Meeting.
* To designate a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

[[Secretary]]

The duties of the Secretary shall be:

* Communication with members of the SIG
* Answering inquiries about the SIG
* To maintain a membership roster of the SIG
* To conduct elections as mandated below

[[Treasurer]]

The duties of the Treasurer shall be:

* To be responsible for any moneys awarded to the SIG by the ACL; to collect and manage any dues that may be required by the organization; and to present a written annual report on the SIG finances to the Executive Committee of the ACL.

== OTHER REPRESENTATIVES ==

The President designates a Liaison Representative and a Resource Manager.

The elected officers will nominate an International Advisory Committee which represents at least four countries and three continents.

[[Liaison Representative]]

The duties of the Liaison Representative shall be:

* To be primarily responsible for communication with the Executive Committee of the ACL;
* To be responsible for relations to other ACL SIGs,
* To requests the approval of the ACL Executive Committee for any activities jointly sponsored with any other non-ACL organizations.

[[Resource Manager]]

The duties of the Resource Manager shall be:

* To create a webpage with the statement of purpose, constitution, current officer information;
* To handle resources that are made available through the web.

[[International Advisory Committee]]

The duties of the International Advisory Committee shall be:

* Planning and coordination of SIGFSM activities,
* To ratify the time and venue of for the workshops and meetings.

== MEMBERSHIP ==

[[Joining]]

Membership is open to anyone who professes an interest in finite-state methods. It does not require ACL membership. The membership can be obtained either through provided electronic means or by filling a membership form in conjunction with a SIG meeting.

[[Termination]]

Membership will be terminated on request, or automatically if no reply is received within 2 months of a timely membership renewal request. Such requests are to be communicated by the medium, and to the address, last notified to the Secretary. Automatically terminated memberships will be reinstated on request.

== ELECTION OF ELECTED OFFICERS ==

All elected officers of the SIG shall be elected by a vote of the membership. If a vacancy occurs among the officers of the SIG, remaining two elected officers may nominate a replacement officer who will serve out up to the remainder of the previous office holder's term.

[[Nominations 3 months before the election]]

Nominations shall be called at least 3 months prior to the election, and shall close 2 months prior to the election. SIG members will be given notice to submit nominations for SIG officers. Candidates must be nominated by two members, must accept nomination, must be in good standing of SIGFSM.

[[Voting 2 months before the election]]

Voting shall commence at least 2 months before the expiration of the current terms of the officers. All members shall be notified of the election date and the nominations at least 4 weeks prior to the close of voting.

Votes may be entered by electronic or physical mail or other designated means. Votes arriving by the notified closing date will be counted. The votes will be counted by the Secretary or another officer appointed by the Advisory Committee and agreed to by all candidates.

[[Announcement of the Results]]

Any nominee receiving a majority of the votes will be declared elected. The results shall be notified to the members within 4 weeks immediately after the announcement of the results, and the previous officers will remain active for 3 months to ease the transition. Notification shall signify dispatch of mail by the medium and to the address last notified to the secretary.

== DUES ==

SIGFSM does not charge dues.

== RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ==

In providing and making available any resources as defined in Clause 1, and especially any held and distributed electronically, the SIG shall follow proper procedures with respect to matters like copyright, registration and data protection as is appropriate to each case.

The SIG shall not enter into any formal or potentially legally binding contracts without the approval of ACL Executive Committee (or the ACL Secretary-Treasurer acting under delegated powers). The SIG shall not enter into any financial commitments for such resources without ensuring that the moneys required are available.

== The version control of this document ==

--[[User:Anssi.Yli-Jyra|Anssi.Yli-Jyra]] 02:28, 27 July 2012 (EDT) This version has been approved by the ACL Board and the SIGFSM members in 2009. Formatting and subsection divisions added 27 July 2012.

2012-07-26T20:59:19Z

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* [[FSM acronyms and technical terms]] - the ABCs of FSM i.e. Finite-State Methods
* [[Frequently asked questions about FSM|FAQ about FSM]]

* [[FSM related conferences and workshops]] - where to go and when
* [[FSM related events]] - news, announcements
* [[FSM related employment opportunities, postdoctoral positions, summer jobs]]
* [[FSM relevant journals]] - where to submit your FSM papers
* [[FSM relevant newsgroups, mailing lists]]
* [[FSM user organizations, groups, companies|Organizations, groups, companies, associations working on FSM]]
* [[FSM People]] - home pages of researchers
* [[FSM Research]] - tutorials, wiki articles, books, papers, bibliographies
* [[Administration: SIGFSM|The administrative matters of the SIGFSM]]
* [[FSM state of the art]] - state of the art for core resources and methods
* [[FSM suggestions]] - the FSM's suggestion box
* [[FSM Teaching]] - course descriptions and resources

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* [[Annual reports on the SIGFSM]]
* [[Mandate of the SIGFSM wiki]]
* [[Policies of the SIGFSM wiki]]
* [[SIGFSM To Do List]] - ''please help''
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* [[ATANLP Workshop]]
* [[FSMNLP Conference]]
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* [http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ACL Administrative Wiki] - conference handbook, reports
* [http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/sigfsm.html SIGFSM in the ACL Anthology] - online papers of SIGFSM meetings
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