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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.
| 2009-9-14 | The SIGHAN elections have finished, and the new slate of officers (listed below) has been overwhelmingly approved. |
| 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. |
| 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 roles of the officers are laid out in the SIGHAN Constitution.