2025Q3 Reports: SIGSEA
Membership
SIGSEA membership is 226 members.
Officers
Holy Lovenia (SEACrowd) and Fajri Koto (MBZUAI) were the founding officers as President and Secretary respectively.
Advisory Board
The SIGSEA Advisory Board is comprised of:
- Alham Fikri Aji. MBZUAI, UAE.
- Chee Seng Chan. Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.
- Ekapol Chuangsuwanich. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
- Gabriel de Jesus. INESC TEC, Portugal.
- Genta Indra Winata. Capital One, US.
- Joseph Marvin Imperial. University of Bath, UK and National University, Philippines.
- Muhammad Reza Qorib. National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- Peerat Limkontichotiwat. AI Singapore, Singapore.
- Onno Kampman. MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, Singapore.
- Ruochen Zhang. Brown University, US.
- Samuel Cahyawijaya. Cohere, UK.
- William Tjhi. AI Singapore, Singapore.
- Ye Kyaw Thu. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand.
Elections
SIGSEA was founded in November 2024 by the following officers: the president Holy Lovenia (holy.lovenia@gmail.com), and the secretary Fajri Koto (fajri.koto@mbzuai.ac.ae)
In November 2025, SIGSEA will conduct the first election to select the next president and secretary.
Workshop
The SIG's major activity is the organization of the South East Asian Language Processing (SEALP) workshop (https://www.sigsea.org/sealp) and birds-of-a-feathers sessions for SEA NLP. In 2025, the 2nd SEALP was co-located with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and organized by Derry Wijaya, Alham Fikri Aji, Clara Vania, Genta Indra Winata, Ayu Purwarianti. The workshop received 20 submissions, as detailed on the workshop website:
https://aclanthology.org/2025.sealp-1.0.pdf
Website and mailing list
We have a working website that lists upcoming events of interest to our members and links to LAW proceedings. The website was updated in this reporting period and is found at:
We also have a mailing list that is used for notices.