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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.


2011-12-14 The SIGHAN elections have finished, and the new slate of officers (listed below) has been overwhelmingly approved.
2010-9-14 The First CPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing was held August 28-29, 2010 in Beijing, China. Results for the Fifth Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff were presented.
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.

Current Officers
United States
Officers
Chair-electHsin-hsi CHENNational Taiwan Universityhh_chen at csie dot ntu dot edu dot tw
Vice-Chair/Chair-electZONG ChengqingChinese Academy of Sciencescqzong at nlpr dot ia dot ac dot cn
TreasurerMing ZHOUMicrosoft Research mingzhou at microsoft dot com
Secretary/Web MasterGina-Anne LEVOWUniversity of Washingtonlevow at uw dot edu
Information Officers
ChinaSUI ZhifangPeking University
Qun LiuChinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Kong SAROlivia KWONGCity University of Hong Kong
LU Qinthe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
SingaporeMin ZHANGInstitute for Infocomm Research
TaiwanShu-Kai HSIEHNTU
Fei XIAUniversity of Washington

The roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.


levow at cs.uchicago.edu
Last edited: January 1, 2012 11:30:00.