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SIGHAN, a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics, provides an umbrella for researchers in industry and academia working in various aspects of Chinese Language Processing.
| 2009-4-1 | The new slate of officers, as identified by the nominating committee of HUANG Chu-Ren, Martha PALMER, Richard SPROAT, and Benjamin T'SOU, has been posted. Additional nominations (including self-nominations) from the members of SIGHAN are also welcome and should be sent to Martha Palmer (Martha dot Palmer at colorado dot edu) by 24 April 2009. The election will follow the close of nominations. |
| 2007-8-9 | The Fourth SIGHAN bakeoff has been completed. Information is available at the bakeoff site. Results have been reported at the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop. |
| 2007-8-9 | The Sixth SIGHAN Workshop for Chinese Language was be held in conjunction with IJCNLP 2008, in Hyderabad, India, January 11-12, 2008. Thanks to all presenters and participants. |
| 2006-7-23 | The Third SIGHAN bakeoff and Fifth SIGHAN Workshop of Chinese Language processing were successfully completed. Thanks to all presenters and Bakeoff participants |
| 2005-11-18 | The data and results for the 2nd International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff are now available for non-commercial use. |
| 2005-06-02 | Subscribe to the low-volume sighan-announce mailing list to keep up-to-date on SIGHAN related news. |
| 2005-06-02 | A new open mailing list, SIGHAN-discussion, has been created to foster discussion of CLP issues. |
Below is the slate of officers proposed by the nominating committee:
| Officers | |||
| Chair | Dan JURAFSKY | Stanford University | |
| Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect | Hsin-hsi CHEN | National Taiwan University | |
| Treasurer | SUN Maosong | Tsinghua University | |
| Secretary/Web Master | Gina-Anne LEVOW | University of Manchester, UK | |
| Information Officers | |||
| China (two positions) | SUI Zhifang | Peking University | |
| ZONG Chengqing | Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
| Hong Kong SAR (two positions) | Olivia KWONG | City University of Hong Kong | |
| LU Qin | the Hong Kong Polytechnic University | ||
| Singapore | NG Hwee Tou | National University of Singapore | |
| Taiwan | Shu-Chuan TSENG | Academia Sinica | |
| United States | Nianwen XUE | Brandeis University | |
The current SIGHAN officers are:
| Officers | |||
| Chair | Benjamin T'SOU | City University of Hong Kong | rlbtsou at cityu dot edu dot hk |
| Vice-Chair | Dan Jurafsky | Stanford University, CA | jurafsky at stanford dot edu |
| Treasurer | SUN Maosong | Tsinghua University | sms at mail dot tsinghua dot edu dot cn |
| Secretary/Web Master | Gina-Anne LEVOW | University of Chicago, IL | levow at cs dot uchicago dot edu |
| Information Officers | |||
| China | SUI Zhifang | Peking University | szf at pku dot edu dot cn |
| ZHAO Tiejun | Harbin Institute of Technology | tjzhao at mtlab dot hit dot edu dot cn | |
| Hong Kong SAR | Tom LAI | City University of Hong Kong | cttomlai at cityu dot edu dot hk |
| Singapore | NG Hwee Tou | National University of Singapore | nght at comp dot nus dot edu dot sg |
| Taiwan | CHEN Hsin-Hsi | NTU | hh_chen at csie dot ntu dot edu dot tw |
| TSENG Shu-Chuan | Academia Sinica | tsengsc at gate dot sinitca dot edu dot tw | |
| United States | Tom EMERSON | Basis Technology Corp | tree at dreamersrealm dot net |
The roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.