Annual Report 2007
From SIGSEM
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Report on SIGSEM, May 2007
Johan Bos & Alexander Koller
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SIGSEM elections were held in February 2007 with the following results:
Johan Bos (President)
Alexander Koller (Secretary)
Paul Buitelaar (Information Officer)
Harry Bunt (Information Officer)
Katrin Erk (Information Officer)
Claire Gardent (Information Officer)
One of the first activities the new SIGSEM board undertook was
changing the SIGSEM webpages into a wiki based site where all SIGSEM
officers can easily change and update information. Also, the SIGSEM
newsletter was resurrected with a fresh issue sent in May this year to all
SIGSEM members, reporting on the SIGSEM working groups and upcoming
events. The current SIGSEM membership counts 614 members [May 18, 2007].
The major event organised by SIGSEM in 2007 was IWCS7, the seventh
International Workshop on Computational Semantics, which was held from
10 - 12 January 2007 in Tilburg, Netherlands. A detailed conference
report was compiled by Jennifer Spenader and is published on the
SIGSEM webpage.
The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2006/2007 are:
[1] OntoLex07
From Text to Knowledge: The Lexicon/Ontology Interface
Workshop at ISWC07 (6th International Semantic Web Conference)
November 11, 2007; Busan, South Korea.
[2] Joint meeting of ACL-SIGSEM Working Group on the Representation
of Multimodal Semantic Information and the ISO TC 37/SC 4 expert
group on Semantic Content.
January 8-9, 2007; Tilburg, Netherlands.
[3] The 10th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
Brandial 2006
September 11-13, 2006; Potsdam, Germany.
[4] Fourth ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
June 28, 2007; Prague, Czech Republic.
[5] ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing
June 28-29, 2007; Prague, Czech Republic.
[6] The Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium
December 17-19, 2007; Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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