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SIGHAN Home Page |
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.
| 2007-8-9 | The Fourth SIGHAN bakeoff has been completed. Information is available at the bakeoff site. Results will be reported at the Sixth SIGHAN Workshop. |
| 2007-8-9 | The Sixth SIGHAN Workshop for Chinese Language will be held in conjunction with IJCNLP 2008, in Hyderabad, India, January 11-12, 2008. The official website is now up. |
| 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. |
In July 2006 the following new officers were unanimously approved by the SIGHAN membership:
| 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 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.