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2023-06-21T23:07:06Z

KatrinErk: /* SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics */

== Guidelines ==

[http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=SIG_Creation_Guidelines ACL SIG Creation Guidelines]

== List of SIGs ==

=== SIGARAB: SIG on Arabic Natural Language Processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigarab.org/
'''contacts''': president Nizar Habash (nizar.habash@nyu.edu), secretary Wassim El-Hajj (we07@aub.edu.lb)
'''members''': 427
'''elections (last,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': WANLP 2022 (http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net), OSACT 2022 (https://osact-lrec.github.io/), IWABigDAI (https://sites.google.com/view/arabicbigdata/home)

=== SIGANN: SIG on annotation ===

'''web page''': https://sigann.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Amir Zeldes (amir.zeldes@georgetown.edu), secretary Ines Rehbein (rehbein@uni-mannheim.de)
'''members''': 150
'''elections (last,next)''': Oct. 2021, 2024
'''events''': LAW X at ACL 2016; LAW XI at EACL 2017; Joint Workshop on Linguistic Annotation, Multiword Expressions and Constructions (LAW-MWE-CxG-2018) at Coling; LAW XIII at ACL 2019;, LAW XIV at Coling 2020, LAW XV-DMR III at EMNLP 2021, LAW XVI at LREC 2022

=== SIGBioMed: SIG on biomedical natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGBIOMED
'''contacts''': chair Dina Demner-Fushman (ddemner@gmail.com),
secretary Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (Kevin.Cohen@gmail.com)
'''members''': 224
'''elections (last, next)''': June 2022, June 2025
'''events''': Yearly BioNLP workshops

=== SIGDAT: SIG on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP ===

'''web page''': http://emnlp.org/
'''contacts''': president Iryna Gurevych (gurevych@ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de), secretary-treasurer Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@microsoft.com)
'''members''': approx. 1200
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2021, December 2022
'''events''': EMNLP every year

=== SIGDIAL: SIG on discourse and dialogue ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigdial.org
'''contacts''': president Gabriel Skantze (skantze@kth.se),
secretary Vikram Ramanarayanan (vramanarayanan@ets.org)
'''members''': 581
'''elections (last, next)''': March 2021, 2023
'''events''': annual conference SIGDIAL; Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS) annual event co-located with SIGDIAL

=== SIGEDU: SIG on building educational applications ===

'''web page''': https://sig-edu.org/
'''contacts''': president Jill Burstein (jill.burstein@ets.org), secretary Ekaterina Kochmar (Ekaterina.Kochmar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
'''members''': 240
'''elections (last,next)''': March 2021, March 2024
'''events''': Annual Workshops on Innovative Uses of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA)

=== SIGEL: SIG on endangered languages ===

'''web page''': https://acl-sigel.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Sarah Moeller (smoeller@ufl.edu), secretary Aditi Chaudhary (aditi138831@gmail.com)
'''members''': 116
'''elections (first,next)''': January 2021, January 2025
'''events''': ComputEL

=== SIGFSM: SIG on ﬁnite state methods and models in natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGFSM
'''contacts''': president Andreas Maletti (andreas.maletti@ims.uni-stuttgart.de),
secretary Mans Hulden (mhulden@email.arizona.edu)
'''members''': 129
'''elections (last, next)''': Autumn 2019, 2022
'''events''': FSMNLP 2021 (Stellenbosch, South Africa)

=== SIGGEN: SIG on natural language generation ===

'''web page''': https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN
'''contacts''': Emiel van Miltenburg (c.w.j.vanmiltenburg@tilburguniversity.edu),
secretary Chenghua Lin (c.lin@sheffield.ac.uk),
'''members''': 490
'''elections (last, next)''': December 2022, December 2024
'''events''': WebNLG 2016 (endorsed); CC-NLG 2016 (endorsed); INLG 2016; CC-NLG 2017 (endorsed); LiRA 2017 (endorsed); RST 2017 (endorsed); XCI 2017 (endorsed); INLG 2017; CC-NLG2018 (endorsed); 2IS&NLG 2018 (endorsed); NLG4HRI 2018 (endorsed); ATA 2018 (endorsed); INLG2018; INLG2019; INLG2020; INLG2021; GEM 2022 workshop (endorsed); NLG4Health 2022 (supported); INLG2022

=== SIGHAN: SIG on Chinese language ===

'''web page''': http://sighan.cs.uchicago.edu
'''contacts''': chair Min Zhang (zhangminmt@hotmail.com),
secretary Gina-Anne Levow (levow@u.washington.edu)
'''members''': 210
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2018, 2021
'''events''': CIPS-SIGHAN 2014; SIGHAN Workshop 2015; SIGHAN Workshop 2017 at IJCNLP 2017

=== SIGHUM: SIG on language technologies for the socio-economic sciences and the humanities ===

'''web page''': https://sighum.wordpress.com/events
'''contacts''': president Barbara McGillivray (barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk), secretary Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de), liaison representative Sara Tonelli (satonelli@fbk.eu)
'''members''': 168
'''elections (last, next)''': July 2022, July 2024
'''events''': LaTeCH at ACL 2016; LaTeCH-CLfL at ACL 2017; KnowRSH workshop at RANLP 2017; LaTeCH-CLfL at Coling 2018; Shared tasks in the Digital Humanities (https://sharedtasksinthedh.github.io/); 3rd Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature at NAACL 2019, LaTeCH-CLfL 2020, LaTeCH-CLfL 2021

=== SIGLEX: SIG on the lexicon ===

'''web page''': http://www.siglex.org
'''contacts''': president Steven Bethard (bethard@arizona.edu), secretary Ekaterina Shutova (shutova.e@gmail.com)
'''members''': 450
'''elections (last, next)''': September 2022, August 2024
'''events''': Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGSEM) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual SemEval workshop at NAACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, COLING 2020, ACL-IJCNLP 2021, NAACL 2022; Annual MWE workshop at LREC 2022, ACL 2021, EACL 2017, ACL 2016, NAACL 2015, EACL 2014, NAACL 2013, ACL 2011, COLING 2010 (endorsed); MWE-LEX at COLING 2020; MWE-WN at ACL 2019; LAW-MWE-CxG at COLING 2018;; EUROPHRAS'2019 (endorsed); MUMTTT'2019 (endorsed)

=== SIGMOL: SIG on mathematics of language ===

'''web page''': http://www.molweb.org
'''contacts''': president Henrik Björklund (henrikb@cs.umu.se), vice president Frank Drewes (drewes@cs.umu.se),
'''members''': 310
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2020, mid 2022
'''events''': MOL 2017, July 13–14, 2017 at Queen Mary University of London; MOL 2019, July 18-19, 2017 at Toronto University; MOL 2021, December 2021 as part of Mathematical Linguistics (MALIN 2021, December 10–17, 2021) at University of Montpellier (online)

=== SIGMORPHON: SIG for computational morphology, phonology, and phonetics ===

'''web page''': https://sigmorphon.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Garett Nicolai (nicolai@ualberta.ca), secretary Miikka Silvferberg (Miikka.Silfverberg@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 175
'''elections (last, next)''': Feb 2021, Feb 2023
'''events''': SIGMORPHON workshop at ACL 2016 including first shared task (Morphological Reinflection); the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2017 shared task (Universal Morphological Reinflection) at ACL 2017; SIGMORPHON at EMNLP 2018; the CoNLL-SIGMORPHON 2018 shared task at EMNLP 2018; SIGMORPHON at ACL 2019 including Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology shared task, SIGMORPHON 2020, SIGMORPHON 2021

=== SIGMT: SIG on machine translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigmt.org
'''contacts''': president Philipp Koehn (phi@jhu.edu, pkoehn@inf.ed.ac.uk),
secretary David Chiang (dchiang@nd.edu)
'''members''': 180
'''elections (last)''': none in the past
'''events''': WMT conference and SSST workshop each year

=== SIGNLL: SIG on natural language learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.signll.org
'''contacts''': president Julia Hockenmaier (juliahmr@illinois.edu), secretary Afra Alishahi (afra.alishahi@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (last, next)''': August 2018, August 2021
'''events''': CoNLL every year; CoNLL-2017 co-located with ACL; CONLL-2018 co-located with EMNLP 2018; CONLL-2019 co-located with EMNLP 2019, CoNLL-2020 co-located with EMNLP 2020, CoNLL 2021 co-located with EMNLP 2021

=== SIGPARSE: SIG on parsing ===

'''web page''': https://www.sigparse.org
'''contacts''': president Stephan Oepen (oe@ifi.uio.no), secretary Kenji Sagae (sagae@ucdavis.edu),
'''members''': 266
'''elections (last, next)''': April 2019, April 2022
'''events''':IWPT 2015; SPMRL 2015 (endorsed) co-located with IWPT 2015; IWPT 2017 co-located with DepLing; Shared Task on Extrinsic Parser Evaluation (EPE) at IWPT/DepLing 2017; SyntaxFest 2019 (endorsed), IWPT 2020, IWPT 2021

=== SIGREP: SIG on representation learning ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigrep.org
'''contacts''': president Elena Voita (lena-voita@hotmail.com),
secretary Nora Kassner (kassner.nora@gmail.com)
'''members''': 2000
'''elections (last, next)''': October 2022, October 2024
'''events''': Repl4NLP at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, ACL 2018, ACL 2019, ACL 2020, ACL 2021, ACL 2022, ACL 2023

=== SIGSEM: SIG on computational semantics ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigsem.org
'''contacts''': president Sina Zarrieß (Sina.zarriess@uni-bielefeld.de),
secretary Stergios Chatzikyriakidis (stergios.chatzikyriakidis@uoc.gr)
'''members''': 880
'''elections (last,next)''': summer 2021, 2025
'''events''': IWCS 2015, IWCS 2017, ICWS 2019; Annual *SEM conference (jointly with SIGLEX) at ACL 2016, ACL 2017, NAACL 2018, NAACL 2019, virtual events 2020 and 2021

=== SIGSLAV: SIG on Slavic natural language processing ===

'''web page''': http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi/index.html
'''contacts''': chair Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si)
secretary Preslav Nakov (pnakov@qf.org.qa)
'''members''': 110
'''elections (first,last)''': Winter 2020, winter 2023
'''events''': BSNLP at RANLP 2015; BSNLP at EACL 2017; Shared Task on Multilingual Named-entity Recognition and Cross-language Name Matching (loosely linked to BSNLP 2017); RUSSE 2018 Shared Task on Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation for the Russian Language; BSNLP at ACL 2019 including Shared Task on Multilingual NER for Slavic languages, BSNLP 2020

=== SIGSLPAT: SIG on speech and language processing for assistive technologies ===

'''web page''': http://www.slpat.org
'''contacts''': president Sarah Ebling (ebling@cl.uzh.ch), vice president Preethi Vaidyanathan (preethi@eyegaze.com), secretary-treasurer Emily Prud'hommeaux (prudhome@bc.edu), student member Zhengjun Yue (z.yue@sheffield.ac.uk)
'''elections (last, next)''': Fall 2020, Fall 2022
'''members''': 160
'''events''': SLPAT16 at Interspeech 2016; RaPID at LREC 2016; SLPAT19 at NAACL 2019; SPAT22 at ACL 2022

=== SIGSLT: SIG on Spoken Language Translation ===

'''web page''': http://www.iwslt.org
'''contacts''': president Marcello Federico (mrcfdr@gmail.com), secretary Sebastian Stüker (sebastian.stueker@kit.edu)
'''members''': 144
'''elections (first,next)''': First Oct 2022, every 2 years
'''events''': IWSLT 2004-2023;

=== SIGSUMM: SIG on Summarization ===

'''web page''': sigsumm.org
'''contacts''': Liaison representative Yue Dong yue.dong@ucr.edu
'''members''': 52
'''elections (first,next)''': first Dec. 2023; every 2 years
'''events''': NewSumm EMNLP Workshop 2023

=== SIGTURK: SIG on Turkic Languages ===

'''web page''': https://sigturk.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Duygu Ataman (ataman@nyu.edu), secretary Sardana Ivanova (sardana.ivanova@helsinki.fi)
'''members''': 94
'''elections (first,next)''': Founded in 2022, elections every two years
'''events''': TBA;

=== SIGTYP: SIG on Linguistic Typology ===

'''web page''': https://sigtyp.github.io/
'''contacts''': president Ekaterina Vylomova (ekaterina.vylomova@unimelb.edu.au), secretary Ryan Cotterell (ryan.cotterell@gmail.com)
'''members''': 380
'''elections (first,next)''': tbc
'''events''': First workshop on Typology for Polyglot Natural Language Processing at ACL 2019; Second workshop on Computational Research in Linguistic Typology at EMNLP 2020; Third workshop on Computational Typology and Multilingual NLP at NAACL 2021

=== SIGUR: SIG on Uralic languages ===

'''web page''': https://acl-sigur.github.io/
'''contacts''': chair Tommi A. Pirinen (tommi.antero.pirinen@uni-hamburg.de),
secretary Francis Tyers (ftyers@prompsit.com)
'''members''': 60
'''elections (last, next)''': Jan. 2020, 2022
'''events''': IWCLUL 2017, IWCLUL 2020

=== SIGWAC: SIG on web as corpus ===

'''web page''': http://www.sigwac.org.uk
'''contacts''': presidents: Nikola Ljubešić (nljubesi@gmail.com, Jožef Stefan Institute) and Benoît Sagot (benoit.sagot@inria.fr, INRIA); secretaries: Veronika Laippala (mavela@utu.fi, University of Turku) and Pedro Ortiz Suarez (pedro.ortiz@uni-mannheim.de, Mannheim University)
'''members''': 178
'''elections (last, next)''': January 2022, 2024
'''events''': WAC-X at ACL 2016; WAC-XI at Corpus Linguistics Conference 2017, WAC-XII 2020

2021Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2021-07-02T14:58:31Z

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== The SIGSEM board ==

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Eduard Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

== Past and future elections ==

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election will be scheduled this year (2021).

== Members ==

As of June 30, 2021, SIGSEM has around 880 members.

== Website ==

There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, http://www.sigsem.org/, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS ==

IWCS 2021, the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place June 16-18 2021 in Groningen, The Netherlands. See https://iwcs2021.github.io/.

The next IWCS is scheduled for 2023.

== Additional endorsed events in 2021 ==

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA), https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma21/, June 14-18, 2021.

Semdial 2021 - The Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue: https://semdial2021.ling.uni-potsdam.de/, University of Potsdam, Sep 20-22, 2021.

2020Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2020-07-01T23:14:59Z

== The SIGSEM board ==

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Gemma Boleda (Information Officer); Eduard Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

== Past and future elections ==

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election is scheduled for 2020.

== Members ==

As of July 1, 2020, SIGSEM has around 870 members.

== Website ==

There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, http://www.sigsem.org/, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS ==

IWCS 2019, the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place May 23-27 in Gothenburg, Sweden. See https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home.

The next IWCS is scheduled for 2021.

== Additional endorsed events in 2020 ==

Probability and Meaning (PaM), https://sites.google.com/view/pam2020/ Gothenburg, Sweden, October 14-16,2020.

NAtural LOgic Meets MAchine Learning (NALOMA), https://typo.uni-konstanz.de/naloma20/ Waltham, Massachusetts, July 11-July 17, 2020. Workshop @ NASSLLI 2020.

GeCKo symposium: Integrating Generic and Contextual Knowledge, https://sites.google.com/view/gecko2020 Barcelona, Spain, May 18 2020.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2019-07-04T12:52:47Z

KatrinErk:

== The SIGSEM board ==

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Gemma Boleda (Information Officer); Eduard Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

== Past and future elections ==

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election is scheduled for 2020.

== Members ==

As of July 2, 2019, SIGSEM has around 800 members.

== Website ==

There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, http://www.sigsem.org/, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM ==

IWCS 2019, the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place May 23-27 in Gothenburg, Sweden. See https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home.

STARSEM-2019 (*SEM-2019), the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, took place June 6-7, 2019 in Minneapolis, USA. See https://starsem.org/2019/ The *SEM events are jointly organized by SIGSEM and SIGLEX.

== Additional endorsed events in 2018 ==

NLCS, http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html: Natural Language and Computer Science. Oxford, Summer 2018.

AREA, http://www.areaworkshop.org/: Annotation, Recognition, and Evaluation of Actions. Miyazaki, Japan, May 7, 2018.

2019Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2019-07-04T07:26:39Z

== The SIGSEM board ==

The SIGSEM board is composed of:

Katrin Erk (President); Raffaella Bernardi (Secretary); Marco Baroni (Information Officer); Gemma Boleda (Information Officer); Ed Hovy (Information Officer); Sebastian Pado (Information Officer); Matthew Purver (Information Officer).

== Past and future elections ==

Elections were held in the spring of 2017. The next election is scheduled for 2020.

== Members ==

As of July 2, 2019, SIGSEM has around 800 members.

== Website ==

There is an active, moderated mailinglist. Our website, http://www.sigsem.org/, is wiki-based and is regularly updated by SIGSEM's information officers.

== Major SIGSEM Events: IWCS and *SEM ==

IWCS 2019, the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics, took place May 23-27 in Gothenburg, Sweden. See https://sites.google.com/view/iwcs2019/home.

STARSEM-2019 (*SEM-2019), the Eighth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, took place June 6-7, 2019 in Minneapolis, USA. See https://starsem.org/2019/ The *SEM events are jointly organized by SIGSEM and SIGLEX.

== Additional endorsed events in 2018 ==

NLCS, http://www.indiana.edu/~iulg/nlcs.html: Natural Language and Computer Science. Oxford, Summer 2018.

AREA, http://www.areaworkshop.org/: Annotation, Recognition, and Evaluation of Actions. Miyazaki, Japan, May 7, 2018.

2010Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2010-05-25T21:39:54Z

KatrinErk: /* Report on SIGSEM by Johan Bos and Katrin Erk (May 2010) */

=== Report on [http://www.sigsem.org 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 [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM_Elections_2010 elections results]: Johan Bos (President); Katrin Erk (Secretary); Luciana Benotti (Information Officer); Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer); Alexander Koller; (Information Officer); Christian Pietsch (Information Officer). For current contact addresses please look [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/Contact here].

Since the last ACL report, one [http://www.sigsem.org/w/images/c/c7/NewsletterOct2009.pdf newsletter] has been sent to the SIGSEM
members, in October 2009, featuring a report on the GEMS workshop, the GIVE-2 shared task, an announcement of new association for research on ontologies (IAOA), the shared task on VP Ellipsis, an announcement of a new journal (Dialogue & Discourse), and the ISA-5 workshop on semantic annotation.

SIGSEM officers have continued work on archiving the proceedings of previous IWCS and ICoS conferences in the ACL Anthology. This will bring all major SIGSEM-sponsored workshops into the Anthology. At this point, the Anthology holds the ICoS-5 and IWCS-8 proceedings.

The next International Conference on Computational Semantics ([http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ 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 30 September 2010.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009 were:

* [http://www.gl2009.org/ GL2009] Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
* [http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/index.htm IWCS-8] 8th International Workshop on Computational Semantics Jan 7-9, 2009 (Tilburg, Netherlands)
* [http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/ GEMS 2009] March 31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
* [http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2009/index.html SEW 2009] Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
* [http://www.diaholmia.org/ DiaHolmia 2009] Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009

2010Q3 Reports: SIGSEM

2010-05-18T14:10:52Z

KatrinErk: /* Report on SIGSEM by Johan Bos and Katrin Erk (May 2010) */

=== Report on [http://www.sigsem.org 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 [http://www.sigsem.org/wiki/SIGSEM_Elections_2010 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 [http://www.sigsem.org/w/images/c/c7/NewsletterOct2009.pdf newsletter] has been sent to the SIGSEM
members, in October 2009, featuring a report on the GEMS workshop, the GIVE-2 shared task, an announcement of new association for research on ontologies (IAOA), the shared task on VP Ellipsis, an announcement of a new journal (Dialogue & Discourse), and the ISA-5 workshop on semantic annotation.

The next International Conference on Computational Semantics ([http://www.meaningfactory.com/iwcs2011/ 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 30 September 2010.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2009 were:

* [http://www.gl2009.org/ GL2009] Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
* [http://iwcs.uvt.nl/iwcs8/index.htm IWCS-8] 8th International Workshop on Computational Semantics Jan 7-9, 2009 (Tilburg, Netherlands)
* [http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/ GEMS 2009] March 31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
* [http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2009/index.html SEW 2009] Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
* [http://www.diaholmia.org/ DiaHolmia 2009] Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009