Annual Report 2004

From SIGSEM

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                   Report on SIGSEM, January 2004
                  Patrick Blackburn and Harry Bunt
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The major event organised by SIGSEM in 2003 was ICoS-4, the fourth
International Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics.  This
was held in Nancy, France, on 25-26 September 2003.  The meeting was
the most successful ICoS to date: four invited talks were given (by
Claire Gardent, Balder ten Cate, Allen Ramsay, and Harry Bunt and
Laurent Romary) and fourteen submitted papers were presented.  For
further information see http://www.loria.fr/~areces/ICoS-4/.

ICoS-4 was part of a larger event called Nancy Inference Week (see
http://www.loria.fr/~areces/NIW/).  Two other events in this week were
also sponsored by SIGSEM. The first of these was Description Logic Day
(DLD), which was held September 24.  This offered a six introductory
lectures on description logic, reasoning in description logic,
applications of description logic in natural language, and
implementations of description logic.  The other event was a meeting
of the SIGSEM working group on multimodal semantic representation,
which took place on September 22-23. The joint invited talk given by
Harry Bunt and Laurent Romary at ICoS-4 discussed the aims and
activities of this group.

Current activities of SIGSEM include cleaning up its membership and
email lists, and organising some new subgroups (a recent proposal was
made for a working group on the semantics of prepositions). The next
large activity in which SIGSEM will be involved is likely to be
IWCS-6, the Sixth International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
which will probably take place in January 2005 in Tilburg, the
Netherlands.

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