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.