2022Q3 Reports: SIGHUM
Summary
SIGHUM brings together researchers interested in computational linguistics applications in all aspects of digital humanities and provides a forum for communication between ACL researchers and other digital humanities communities and organisations. The group’s only activities in the past years have been the mailing list and the annual LaTeCH-CLfL workshop. With the recent election of a new board, plans are in place to increase the activity level of the group, members’ engagement and community building, the group’s web and social media presence and synergetic relations with other relevant groups over the coming year.
Membership
Currently SIGHUM has 261 members.
Board
President: Barbara McGillivray, King’s College London and The Alan Turing Institute (elected July 2022)
Secretary: Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Saarland University (elected July 2022)
Liaison Representative: Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento (elected July 2022)
Events
The SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL) is an annual workshop series that aims to provide a forum for researchers who are working on aspects of natural language and information technology applications that pertain to data from the humanities, social sciences, cultural heritage, and literature. The LaTeCH workshops were initially motivated by the growing interest in language technology research and applications for the cultural heritage domain. The scope has soon nevertheless broadened to also include the humanities, the social sciences, and the literary studies.
Since the official formation of SIGHUM, the LaTeCH workshop series constitutes the SIGHUM annual workshop and the venue for the SIGHUM annual business meeting.
This year, SIGHUM supported the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop LaTeCH-CLfL 2022 Workshop held at COLING 2022 https://sighum.wordpress.com/events/latech-clfl-2022/
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