2026Q3 Reports: SIGHAN

membership: Currently 242 members

Current list of officers: Chair, Nianwen XUE, Brandeis University, xuen at brandeis dot edu Vice-Chair/Chair-elect, Vincent NG, University of Texas at Dallas, vince at hlt dot utdallas dot edu Secretary/Web Master, Gina-Anne LEVOW, University of Washington, levow at uw dot edu Treasurer, Junhui LI, Soochow University

Information Officers China, Jiajun ZHANG, Chinese Academy of Sciences Ruifeng XU, Harbin Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University Hong Kong SAR, Chun Yu KIT, City University of Hong Kong Singapore, Wei LU, Singapore University of Technology and Design Taiwan, Lung-hao LEE, National Central University

       Kuan-Yu (Menphis) CHEN, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

United States, Fei LIU, Emory University

Workshop: The 10th SIGHAN workshop was held in 2024 in conjunction with ACL. The workshop also featured a shared task: Chinese Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, dimABSA. 21 main session papers were submitted to the workshop, with 10 accepted for presentation. 8 papers were also submitted for the Shared Task.

Current activity: A planning survey has been sent to the membership to identify future directions. The next SIGHAN election is also being planned.