Annual Report 2009

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                   Report on SIGSEM, July 2009
                  Johan Bos & Alexander Koller
                       www.sigsem.org
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The current SIGSEM membership counts 661 members.

The SIGSEM constitution calls for board elections every three
years. We plan to hold the next elections in early 2010, in compliance
with the constitution.

Since the last ACL report, one newsletter has been sent to the SIGSEM
members, in November 2008, featuring a report of the STEP 2008
workshop in Venice, a report of the OLP-3 workshop at ECAI, a report
of the CID 2008 workshop in Potsdam, a statement of the ACM
Transaction on Computational Logic journal, and an announcement of the
IWCS-8 conference on computational semantics in Tilburg.

The next SIGSEM newsletter (planned for this month) is under
preparation. We are currently discussing to replace the newsletter
with a SIGSEM blog, which could be updated more frequently.

SIGSEM officers have continued work on archiving the proceedings of
previous ICoS conferences in the ACL Anthology. This will bring all
major SIGSEM-sponsored workshops into the Anthology, and is expected
to be completed within 2009.

IWCS-8, the Eighth International Workshop on Computational Semantics,
the major conference organised by SIGSEM, was held on Jan 7-9, 2009 in
Tilburg, Netherlands. An extensive conference report by Caroline
Sporleder and Luciana Benotti is available from the SIGSEM webpage.

The events endorsed by SIGSEM in 2008/2009 were/are: 

[1] GEMS 2009 GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics
    March 31, 2009 (Athens, Greece)
    http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/

[2] SEW 2009 Semantic Evaluations: Recent Achievements and Future Directions
    Boulder, CO, 4-5 June 2009
    http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~lluism/sew2009/index.html

[3] DiaHolmia 2009 
    Stockholm, Sweden, 24-26 June 2009
    http://www.diaholmia.org/

[4] GL2009 5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon
    Pisa, Italy, 17-19 Sept 2009
    http://www.gl2009.org/

[5] GIVE-2 Shared Task: Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions 
    in Virtual Environments 
    http://www.give-challenge.org/research/

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